JAQR - April 13, 2025
Honors, Authors, Sports, Bedřich Smetana, Archipelagos, Civil War battles, Arctic Circle countries, British history, and more...
Thank you for reading another issue of the Jeopardy Answer & Question Recap, or JAQR [“jacker”] for short. This recap includes at least one clue from each Jeopardy! episode between Monday 4/7 and Friday 4/11. The recap includes a Final Jeopardy clue, Triple Stumpers, and Daily Doubles. There’s also questions about material from last week and Bonus Clues about long ago covered topics. The first half of the recap includes just the clues so you can quiz yourself if you want. The second half gives you some (hopefully) interesting information about the clues and/or some related info.
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
HONORS
Burt Lancaster & Joanne Woodward were among the first 8 honored at a 1958 ceremony held on this street
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
AUTHORS' APPEARANCES
This elfin Southern novelist whose books include "The Little Friend" says she's "the same size as Lolita" (5 feet even)
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
MY SPORT IS MY NICKNAME
Ken Watson skipped his rink to 3 Brier titles & was on 32 major bonspiel winners, so you know he was "Mr." this
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT: WORLD CAPITAL EDITION
Celebrated in music by Smetana, the Vltava or Moldau River: Through this city
DAILY DOUBLE #1
ON THE "M"AP
Southwest of Sri Lanka is this archipelago of some 1,200 islands, of which 200 are inhabited
DAILY DOUBLE #2
STATE FACTS
During the Civil War more battles were fought in these 2 neighboring states than in any other
DAILY DOUBLE #3
THERE'S NO A IN COUNTRY
North of the Arctic Circle, Mount Kebne rises nearly 7,000 feet as the tallest peak in this nation
DAILY DOUBLE #4
BRITISH HISTORY
This daughter was the firstborn of Henry VIII's legitimate children
LAST WEEK RECAP #1
What family, which ruled Milan from 1277-1447, has a coat of arms that depicts a serpent swallowing a child?
LAST WEEK RECAP #2
Your dad’s favorite show, Yellowstone, was created by what man, who also wrote the screenplays to the movies Sicario and Hell or High Water?
BONUS CLUE #1
TALK O' TUESDAY
This redundantly titled Taylor Swift breakup song begins, "Once upon a time, I believe it was a Tuesday when I caught your eye"
BONUS CLUE #2
CHAPTER
In this novel Chapter 10 is "The Shell and the Glasses" & 12, "Cry of the Hunters"
BONUS CLUE #3
CALIFORNIA HISTORY
Midwest transplants included Robert Stroud, known as this--inaccurately, as he couldn't bring his canaries from Leavenworth
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
HONORS
Burt Lancaster & Joanne Woodward were among the first 8 honored at a 1958 ceremony held on this street
***HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD***
The Hollywood Walk of Fame pays tribute to members of the entertainment industry. In the 1950s, 1,558 honorees were selected for it by four committees (movies, TV, audio recording, and radio). Eight names were drawn at random and inscribed on prototype stars. The eight people were Olive Borden, Louise Fazenda, Preston Foster, Edward Sedgwick, and Ernest Torrence, along with these three more remembered individuals:
Ronald Colman (1891-1958) - English-born actor who starred with Vilma Banky in many silent movies in the mid 1920s, played the title gentleman adventurer in Bulldog Drummond (1929), played Sidney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities (1935), played the title king who is held captive in a castle in The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), and won the Oscar for Best Actor for A Double Life (1947), in which he played a stage actor who begins to live his role of Othello offstage
Burt Lancaster (1913-1994) - born in New York City, he played the title Native American athlete in Jim Thorpe – All-American (1951) and starred in From Here to Eternity (1953), which is set in the days preceding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and features a beachside love scene with Deborah Kerr; he played the title charlatan evangelist in Elmer Gantry (1960) and the title convicted murderer-turned-ornithologist, Robert Stroud, in Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Joanne Woodward - born in Georgia in 1930, she won the Oscar for Best Actress for The Three Faces of Eve (1957), in which she played a young housewife with three distinct personalities (Eve White, Eve Black, and Jane); she was married to Paul Newman from 1958 until his death in 2008; she played the title repressed schoolteacher in Rachel, Rachel (1968), which was the first movie directed by Newman
For more about Woodward’s husband, check out Triple Stumper #1 from this past recap: https://jaqr.substack.com/p/jaqr-august-6-2023
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
AUTHORS' APPEARANCES
This elfin Southern novelist whose books include "The Little Friend" says she's "the same size as Lolita" (5 feet even)
***DONNA TARTT***
Donna Tartt was born in 1963. Her first novel was The Secret History (1992), which is a murder mystery novel that centers on a sextet of classics students at a fictional Vermont college (based on Bennington College, which she attended). One of the students named Bunny dies when they are recreating a bacchanal to honor the god Dionysus. The novel mainly focuses on the lasting effects of Bunny's death on the other students. The novel’s title is a reference to the work Secret History by the 6th century historian Procopius, who detailed the private life of emperor Justinian I.
Donna Tartt’s second novel was The Little Friend (2002) and is set in Mississippi, where she was born. The novel centers on a 12-year-old girl named Harriet, who is trying to find out who killed her brother and avenge him. Tartt is best known for her Pulitzer-winning third novel, The Goldfinch (2013). It centers on a 13-year-old named Theo, who takes the Carel Fabritius painting The Goldfinch (1654) after surviving a terrorist attack at the Met. It was adapted into a 2019 movie starring Ansel Elgort.
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
MY SPORT IS MY NICKNAME
Ken Watson skipped his rink to 3 Brier titles & was on 32 major bonspiel winners, so you know he was "Mr." this
***CURLING***
Ken Watson was born in 1904 in Manitoba. Actually known as “Mr. Curler,” he was considered the best curler in the world in the 1940s and helped popularize/perfect the (then controversial) sliding delivery technique. He skipped (captained) his rink to three Brier titles in 1936, 1942 and 1949. The Brier is the annual Canadian men's curling championship, which has traditionally been dominated by teams from Alberta and Manitoba. The winner represents the country at the World Men’s Curling Championships (co-founded by Watson), which has traditionally been dominated by Canada. In 2025, it was held in Moose Jaw and was won by Scotland (where the sport originated). The title sponsor of The Brier is now a Canadian restaurant chain called Montana's BBQ & Bar. The original sponsor (1927–1979) was Macdonald Tobacco, which made a brand of tobacco called Brier. After his playing days were over, Ken Watson slid over into the broadcasting booth. According to Wikipedia, he briefly co-hosted CBC Championship Curling with some guy named Alex Trebek.
Here are some curling terms to know, all of which start with the letter H: