JAQR - 7/9/23 Recap Quiz (Special Edition)
Test your knowledge of previous editions of JAQR
Thank you for reading another issue of the Jeopardy Answer & Question Recap, or JAQR [“jacker”] for short. This special edition will include 124 questions based on previous editions of JAQR from early 2023. The recap will ask about content from the following 18 “regular” issues: 1/6, 1/13, 1/20, 1/27, 2/3, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 3/5, 4/2, 4/9, 4/16, 4/23, 4/30, 5/7, 5/14, 5/21, and 5/28.
There are 5-10 questions in each of these categories: Academic, American History, Books, Fine Arts, Geography, Literature, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, Popular Culture, Science, Sports, TV, and World History. Many of the questions are pretty hard, so I’d say a score of around 62 correct answers or more is very good. For even more questions, check out the previous "Recap Quiz" from the 3/26/23 issue.
Academic - Questions
Anchorage, Alaska contains an international airport named for what former U.S. senator, who was mocked for calling the Internet a "series of tubes"?
The teenager Mbuyisa Makhubo is carrying the mortally wounded twelve-year-old Hector Pieterson in a photo taken by Sam Nzima during a 1976 uprising in what “township”?
Which one of the "Seven Sisters" in South Hadley, Massachusetts was formerly a female seminary that Emily Dickinson attended for one year?
Lytico-bodig disease is a condition endemic to what indigenous people of Guam?
In Greek mythology, Helen of Troy was married to what king of Sparta who was the younger brother of Agamemnon?
The cover of an issue of the magazine Paris Match was analyzed in the second section of the 1957 book Mythologies by what literary theorist and philosopher?
What Jewish philosopher, who wrote The Guide for the Perplexed, served as Saladin's physician?
What 1942 philosophical essay, which argues that life is essentially meaningless, is named for a figure who was condemned to repeatedly roll a boulder up a hill only for it to roll down once he got it to the top?
The Duke of Wellington (aka Arthur Wellesley) apocryphally said that “the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of” what college, whose name is a popular crossword answer?
In mythology, the blood of Adonis combined with the tears of Venus to become what flower (pictured below)?
Academic - Answers
Ted Stevens
Soweto (or South-Western Township)
Mount Holyoke
Chamorro
Menelaus
Roland Barthes [bart]
Moses Maimonides
The Myth of Sisyphus
Eton
Anemone
American History - Questions
In the lead-up to the 1944 presidential election, FDR gave a campaign speech to the Teamsters that is now commonly named for what Scottish Terrier of his?
The Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland in 1966 by what two men?
Who was found guilty and executed for kidnapping and murdering the child of Charles and Anne Lindberg?
Benedict Arnold lost the Battle of Valcour Island, which was fought on what lake?
The nickname The Three Musketeers was used to refer to Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, and what other liberal member of the Supreme Court during the mid-1930s?
What two-word term is used to refer to the quintet of senators, including John Glenn and John McCain, who were accused of corruption during the savings and loan crisis in 1989?
George W. Bush eventually nominated Samuel Alito to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, but Dubya originally nominated what woman (pictured below) who had no prior experience as a judge?
American History - Answers
Fala
Bobby Seale & Huey P. Newton
Bruno Hauptmann
Lake Champlain
Harlan Fiske Stone
Keating Five
Harriet Miers
Books - Questions
Who wrote the career handbook What Color Is Your Parachute?
The odd-numbered chapters of the 2010 YA novel Will Grayson, Will Grayson were written by John Green, and the even-numbered chapters were written by what man, who also co-wrote Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist?
The fictional character Pinocchio was created by what 19th century Italian author?
What first novel by John Grisham concerns a Black man who is tried for the murder of two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter?
The father Mo Folchart accidentally learns that he is a Silvertongue, meaning that he can bring characters out of books by reading aloud, in what Cornelia Funke fantasy novel, the first in a trilogy?
A pizza deliverer and hacker named Hiro Protagonist, who spends time in the Metaverse, appears in what 1992 novel by Neal Stephenson?
What pilot (pictured below), who died in a plane crash during World War II while conducting a reconnaissance mission, wrote The Little Prince (or Le Petit Prince)?
Books - Answers
Richard N. Bolles
David Levithan
Carlo Collodi (or Carlo Lorenzini)
A Time to Kill
Inkheart
Snow Crash
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [sant-eg-zoo-pey-REE]
Fine Arts - Questions
Who designed the Art Deco skyscraper known as the Chrysler Building?
What title figure in a Richard Wagner opera battles the evil magician Klingsor and heals Amfortas with the Holy Spear?
What photographer’s possibly staged work The Falling Soldier depicts a Republican soldier collapsing backward after being fatally shot at the Battle of Cerro Muriano during the Spanish Civil War?
The 1957 album Birth of the Cool by Miles Davis features the songs "Jeru" and Venus De Milo," both of which were written by what baritone saxophonist?
What early 14th century Italian painter is best known for his fresco cycle in Padua’s Arena Chapel that includes Adoration of the Magi?
The Watts Towers in Los Angeles were constructed in the middle of the 20th century by what man, who called the 17 spire-shaped sculptures Nuestro Pueblo?
Architects from Rotterdam include what man who designed Kubuswoningen, or "cube houses"?
Jackson Pollock was married to what fellow painter, whose 1966 painting Gaea is in the MoMA?
Don Carlos escapes to the safety of a cloister near the end of an 1867 opera that was composed by what Italian?
What is the title of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude installation in Central Park (pictured below) whose title objects were decorated with saffron-colored cloth?
Fine Arts - Answers
William Van Alen
Parsifal
Robert Capa
Gerry Mulligan
Giotto [JAHT-toh]
Simon Rodia
Piet Blom
Lee Krasner
Giuseppe Verdi
The Gates
Geography - Questions
What capital of Prince Edward Island is named for the wife of George III?
What capital city of Albania contains an airport named for Mother Teresa?
What town in Switzerland hosted the Winter Olympics in 1928 and 1948?
What is the present-day name of the city that was called Christiania [kris-tee-AH-nah] from 1624–1877 in honor of King Christian IV?
The Black Sea is connected to what other sea to the north by the Kerch Strait?
What capital of a Canadian territory is on Baffin Island and was formerly called Frobisher Bay?
Switzerland’s Lake Lucerne is nicknamed Lake of the Four Cantons, because there are four cantons that surround it. One of the cantons is Lucerne. Name any one of the other three.
The Bering Strait is home to what islands that are 2.5 miles apart and separated by the International Date Line? The “Big” one belongs to Russia, and the “Little” one belongs to the U.S.
What country in the EU is smallest by both size and population?
Dahomey is the former name of what country that is between Togo and Nigeria?
Geography - Answers
Charlottetown
Tirana
St. Moritz
Oslo
Sea of Azov
Iqaluit [ee-KAHL-oo-it]
Nidwalden, Uri, or Schwyz
Diomede Islands
Malta
Benin
Literature - Questions
What is the name of the estate owned by Fitzwilliam Darcy in the novel Pride and Prejudice? The name of this estate fills in the blank in the title of P.D. James' final novel Death Comes to *BLANK*.
The aristocratic Loam family and their friends are stranded on a desert island in a 1902 book by J.M. Barrie in which what “admirable” butler becomes their leader?
Based on real events, what 2020 book by Colson Whitehead is set in Florida in the 1960s and centers on two Black teenagers who are abused at a reform school?
The physician Dr. Juvenal Urbino dies after falling off his ladder trying to get his pet parrot out of a mango tree in what 1985 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez?
Violet Venable tries to bribe a doctor because she wants to silence her niece Catherine by lobotomizing her in what 1958 play by Tennessee Williams?
The Whale Rider is a 1987 novel by what Māori writer?
What author, who was born in Afghanistan in 1965, wrote A Thousand Splendid Suns?
What bumbling policeman prone to malaprops unveils Don John’s sinister plot in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing?
What Jewish character, the former "middleweight boxing champion of Princeton," is mentioned in the first line of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises?
Thomas Cromwell is the subject of a trilogy of historical novels (Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Mirror & the Light) by what English writer (pictured below), who died in 2022?
Literature - Answers
Pemberley
Crichton
The Nickel Boys
Love in the Time of Cholera
Suddenly Last Summer
Witi Ihimaera [ee-hee-MY-rah]
Khaled Hosseini [hoh-SAY-nee]
Dogberry
Robert Cohn
Hilary Mantel
Miscellaneous - Questions
What word fills in the blank in the title of a 1949 book by Dr. Seuss: Bartholomew and the *BLANK*? The missing word is now an actual scientific term for a non-Newtonian fluid made of cornstarch and water.
The first Domino's Pizza was in what Michigan city, which was named for a man with the first name Demetrios, who fought in the Greek War of Independence in the 1820s?
What three-word name is shared by a bass player who was in Led Zeppelin and an American naval commander who in 1779 exclaimed “I have not yet begun to fight!”?
What 2022 documentary about Nan Goldin's life won the top prize, the Golden Lion, at the Venice Film Festival?
What man entered the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky in 1941 and became famous after the 1948 publication of his “autobiography of faith” titled Seven Storey Mountain?
What type of puzzle, exemplified by “24 H in a D = 24 Hours in a Day,” takes its name from a 1962 novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn [sohl-zheh-NEET-sin]?
What frontiersman was shot in the back of the head and killed while playing poker in a Deadwood saloon by Jack McCall in 1876?
A famous cover of Rolling Stone from 1981 that features a naked John Lennon curled up next to Yoko Ono on their bed was based on a photo taken by what woman?
What creature, which is described as “frumious” in the Lewis Carroll poem "Jabberwocky," is also the subtitle of an interactive Netflix movie?
The cover of Gabrielle Zevin’s 2022 novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (pictured below) includes a reproduction of what Hokusai woodblock print?
Miscellaneous - Answers
Oobleck
Ypsilanti [ip-sih-LAN-tee]
John Paul Jones
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Thomas Merton (or Father Louis)
Ditloid
Wild Bill Hickok
Annie Leibovitz
Bandersnatch
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Movies - Questions
Three westerns have won the Oscar for Best Picture: Cimarron (1931), Dances with Wolves (1990), and what 1992 movie?
What alliteratively-named Black actor played mortician and death expert William Bludworth in several of the Final Destination movies and has also played the title character of the Candyman film series?
A mental hospital psychoanalyst (played by Ingrid Bergman) falls in love with the hospital's new director (played by Gregory Peck), who turns out to be an impostor suffering from amnesia, in what 1945 movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock?
What two actors played the title characters of the 1985 movie The Falcon and the Snowman, which was directed by John Schlesinger?
Djimon Hounsou, who was first Black actor born in Africa to receive an Oscar nomination, received the nomination for playing the HIV-positive artist Mateo in what 2002 movie?
Jakie Rabinowitz, who changes his name to Jack Robin, is the the main character of what 1927 movie, whose plot was adapted from the story "The Day of Atonement"?
What 1983 movie, Nora Ephron's first, starred Meryl Streep as the title whistle-blower?
What female Kiwi wrote and directed the 1993 movie The Piano and the 2021 movie The Power of the Dog?
The 1961 film adaptation of West Side Story was co-directed by Jerome Robbins and what man, who shared the Oscar for Best Director? This man also directed the 1965 film adaptation of The Sound of Music.
What woman (pictured below), who at the age of 80 became the oldest woman ever to win the Oscar for Best Actress, played the Jewish widow Daisy Werthan in the 1989 movie Driving Miss Daisy?
Movies - Answers
Unforgiven
Tony Todd
Spellbound
Timothy Hutton & Sean Penn
In America
The Jazz Singer
Silkwood
Jane Campion
Robert Wise
Jessica Tandy
Music - Questions
The first three people inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1961 were Fred Rose, Hank Williams Sr., and what man, whose nicknames include “The Singing Brakeman” and “America’s Blue Yodeler”?
What song from John Mellencamp's 1983 album Uh-huh includes the lyrics “Ah, but ain't that America for you and me? / Ain't that America? Somethin' to see, baby / Ain't that America? Home of the free, yeah”?
The band No Doubt covered the song "It's My Life" by what English band, whose name is also the title of their first big hit, a 1982 synth-pop song from the album The Party's Over?
The first time that a father-daughter duet topped the charts in the UK was in 1967 when what two people sang a version of “Somethin' Stupid”?
Earl Sweatshirt is a member of what hip-hop music collective co-founded by Tyler, the Creator? Its full name ends Wolf Gang Kill Them All.
What saxophonist can be heard on Aretha Franklin’s “Freeway of Love” and Lady Gaga’s “The Edge Of Glory"?
Bobby Brown left what R&B and pop group in 1985 to go solo?
What second studio album by Billy Idol shares its name with the album’s first track, whose chorus begins “In the midnight hour she cried more, more, more, more.”
What singer of many popular melancholic songs from the early 1950s is mentioned in the first line of the first verse of both "We Didn't Start the Fire" and "Come On Eileen"?
The pop duo Wham! consisted of George Michael and what other person (pictured on the right below)?
Music - Answers
Jimmie Rodgers
Pink Houses
Talk Talk
Frank and Nancy Sinatra
Odd Future (or OFWGKTA)
Clarence Clemons
New Edition
Rebel Yell
Johnnie Ray
Andrew Ridgeley
Pop Culture - Questions
The gambler Sky Masterson sings "Luck Be a Lady" while playing craps in what musical, which also includes the song “Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat”?
What man, whose autobiography was titled How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, was played by Luke Kirby on the Amazon show Amazon show The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel?
What private women’s school in Decatur, Georgia beat Princeton on a 1966 episode of College Bowl that has been called “The Greatest Upset in Quiz Show History”?
Daryl Hannah played the orphaned Cro-Magnon girl Ayla in the 1986 movie adaptation of what Jean Auel [owl] book, the first in the series Earth’s Children?
What man was the first to play the title character of the musical Sunday in the Park with George on Broadway, and also won a Tony for playing Che in the musical Evita?
Clive Cussler's book Raise the Titanic! features what recurring action hero, who was played by Matthew McConaughey in the 2005 movie Sahara?
The actress Jamie Lee Curtis is married to what director of numerous mockumentaries?
What man (pictured below), who co-created the British game show Pointless and formerly co-hosted it, wrote the 2020 crime mystery novel The Thursday Murder Club?
Pop Culture - Answers
Guys and Dolls
Lenny Bruce
Agnes Scott College
The Clan of the Cave Bear
Mandy Patinkin
Dirk Pitt
Christopher Guest
Richard Osman
Science (8) - Questions
Divided into subperiods called the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian, what part of the Paleozoic era began ~360 million years ago and ended ~300 million years ago?
Titanium can be extracted from the minerals rutile and ilmenite by what eponymous process, which replaced the Hunter process?
Joseph Priestley discovered many gases, including which one that he called “phlogisticated air"?
Brunner’s glands, which secrete alkaline fluids, protect what portion of the small intestine from the stomach’s acidic gastric juices? This portion of the small intestine precedes the jejunum and ileum.
What anima’s scientific name is Sarcophilus harrisii, whose first word means "flesh lover" in Latin, and whose second word refers to George Harris, the first English person to describe the animal?
What Chinese-American physicist showed that beta particles given off by cobalt-60 had a preferred direction of emission, thus proving that parity is not conserved?
What is the primary ore of both gallium and aluminum?
The first widely used vaccine for polio was developed in the 1950s by Jonas Salk, and an oral polio vaccine was developed in the 1960s by what other man (pictured below)?
Science - Answers
Carboniferous
Kroll process
Nitrogen
Duodenum
Tasmanian Devil
Chien-Shiung Wu
Bauxite
Albert Sabin
Sports (9) - Questions
What is the last name of Gaston, who won the Indy 500 in 1920? His brother Louis designed the car that Gaston drove to victory.
George Foreman defeated Joe Frazier via second round TKO in 1973 in "The Sunshine Showdown," which occurred in what world capital?
What man, who won the Indy 500 in 2001, 2002, 2009, 2021, was born in Sao Paulo?
University of Miami quarterback Vinny Testaverde won the Heisman Trophy in 1986. What other Miami quarterback won the same award in 1992?
The first Monday Night Football game saw the Cleveland Browns defeat what team, whose quarterback Joe Namath threw a pick six late in the fourth quarter?
What pitcher on the Miami Marlins won the NL Cy Young Award in 2022 and shares his first name with the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher who won the Cy Young Award three times in the 1960s?
French hosts of the Winter Olympics include Chamonix in 1924, Grenoble in 1968, and Albertville in what year, which was the last time the Winter and Summer Olympics were in the same year?
Secretariat’s primary jockey was what man, who was paralyzed from the waist down following a horse racing accident at Belmont in 1978?
What figure skater (pictured below), who defeated Debi Thomas in the so-called “Battle of the Carmens,” won the ladies’ singles gold medal in 1984 in Sarajevo and in 1988 in Calgary?
Sports - Answers
Chevrolet
Kingston
Hélio Castroneves
Gino Torretta
New York Jets
Sandy Alcántara
1992
Ron Turcotte
Katarina Witt [vit]
TV (5) - Questions
Linda Evans played Krystle Carrington on what ABC primetime soap opera that was created to compete with the CBS show Dallas? Its fifth season ended with the Moldavian wedding massacre cliffhanger.
What Law & Order spin-off began airing in 2021 and stars Christopher Meloni?
What musician sometimes appears on the show The Kardashians since he is married to Kourtney Kardashian?
The theme song to the 80's crime show Magnum, P.I. was created by what man, who also composed the themes to The A-Team, Hill Street Blues, and Law & Order?
A new version of the game show Password debuted in 2022 and is hosted by what Black woman (pictured below), who co-starred in the movie Nope?
TV - Answers
Dynasty
Law & Order: Organized Crime
Travis Barker
Mike Post
Keke Palmer
World History - Questions
What man, whose children included Thursday October, led the 1789 "Mutiny on the Bounty" against Captain William Bligh?
What woman was beheaded at the Tower of London after her husband King Henry VIII learned of her pre-marital affairs with people such as her music teacher Henry Mannox?
George Jeffreys was one of the judges who presided over what 1685 series of trials involving participants in the Monmouth Rebellion, which was an attempt to depose English king James II?
Fought on Palm Sunday in March 1461, what Yorkist victory was the largest and bloodiest battle during the War of the Roses?
What Holocaust survivor and former French Minister of Health is the namesake of the 1975 act that decriminalized abortion in France?
According to legend, Solon met with what very wealthy and powerful King of Lydia, who was warned “count no man happy until he is dead”?
What woman, who appears on the front of the Jamaican $500 bill, was one of the leaders of the Maroons during the First Maroon War, and allegedly could catch bullets in her butt and fart them back at opponents?
The Treaty of Wichale, which featured the ambiguous Article 17, ended the first war between what two countries? The Battle of Adwa in 1896 was part of the second war between these two countries.
A memorable photo from 2017 depicted Donald Trump and what two other world leaders touching a glowing globe? The two men are the President of Egypt and the King of Saudi Arabia.
What Filipino journalist (pictured below), who was a prominent critic of Rodrigo Duterte, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for “efforts to safeguard freedom of expression”?
World History - Answers
Fletcher Christian
Catherine Howard
Bloody Assizes [ah-SIZES]
Towton
Simone Veil
Croesus [KREE-sus]
Nanny of the Maroons (or Queen Nanny or Granny Nanny)
Ethiopia and Italy
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and King Salman
Maria Ressa