JAQR - April 14, 2024
Daniel Defoe, Physics units, MLB teams, Eleanor Catton, Sly Stone, African rivers, New York governors, and more...
Thank you for reading another issue of the Jeopardy Answer & Question Recap, or JAQR [“jacker”] for short. This recap includes clues from the Jeopardy! episodes between Monday 4/8 and Friday 4/12. The recap will include Daily Doubles, a Final Jeopardy clue, and Triple Stumpers. The first half of the recap will include just the clues so you can quiz yourself if you want. The second half will give you some (hopefully) interesting information about the clues and/or some related info.
DAILY DOUBLE #1
NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS
The first name of this title character of a Defoe novel is an old word for a prostitute
DAILY DOUBLE #2
THE MEASURE OF A MAN
You only need letters on the left side of the keyboard to type this unit of capacitance that's named for an English chap
DAILY DOUBLE #3
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
In the 1950s this NL team temporarily changed its name so as not to be associated with communism
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
BODIES OF WATER
The smallest inland sea in the world, it's completely within the territory of a single country & connects 2 other larger seas
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
POP CULTURE IS SPRINGING OUT ALL OVER
The only movie to pair Fred Astaire & Judy Garland is this holiday classic
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
BOOKS & AUTHORS
An Eleanor Catton eco-thriller shares its name with this "Macbeth" place of prophecy that moves to Dunsinane
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
MUSICIANS' MEMOIRS
In the title of a 1970 No. 1 hit & of Sly Stone's long-awaited memoir, it precedes "Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin"
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY
This river rises in the Lesotho Highlands & crosses the Kalahari & Namib Deserts before emptying into the Atlantic
TRIPLE STUMPER #5A & 5B
NEW YORK GOVERNORS
Known as the "Father of the Erie Canal", he served 2 terms as governor of New York
This governor resigned from politics 2 months after losing the 1876 presidential election to Rutherford B. Hayes
BONUS CLUE #1
THE 6 MOTHERS-IN-LAW OF HENRY VIII
The mother of Anne of Cleves was Maria of Jülich, a duchy of this thousand-year empire of West & Central Europe
BONUS CLUE #2
SPACE SHUTTLES
2 space shuttles were named for craft commanded by this man who died far from home in 1779
BONUS CLUE #3
AUTHORS' AFTERLIVES
After his death his son Michel reworked & published manuscripts like one about a meteor made of gold heading for Earth
BONUS CLUE #4
KIDDY LIT
This beloved book about a stuffed animal is subtitled "Or, How Toys Become Real"
DAILY DOUBLE #1
NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS
The first name of this title character of a Defoe novel is an old word for a prostitute
***MOLL FLANDERS***
Moll Flanders (1722) has a 64-word title that is a decent summary of the novel:
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. Who Was Born in Newgate, and During a Life of Continu’d Variety for Threescore Years, Besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, Five Times a Wife (Whereof Once to her Own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at Last Grew Rich, Liv’d Honest, and Died a Penitent. Written from Her Own Memorandums.
Moll Flanders is an example of a picaresque novel, which is named for the Spanish word for 'rogue' or 'rascal.' Picaresque novels depict the adventures of a low-born person as they drift from one place to another in an effort to survive. The first picaresque novel is considered to be the 1554 work Lazarillo de Tormes (author unknown). Other examples include Tom Jones (by Henry Fielding) and The Adventures of Roderick Random (by Tobias Smollett). At one point in the novel, Moll Flanders states “I grew as impudent a thief, and as dexterous as ever Moll Cutpurse,” which is a reference to a 17th-century English pickpocket named Mary Frith. Her nickname was based on the fact that pickpockets would “cut purses” right from their victims’ clothing.
Moll Flanders was written by the English novelist Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), pictured below. He is probably best known for the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe, which drew on the memoirs of the castaway Alexander Selkirk. Defoe wrote the 1722 historical novel A Journal of the Plague Year, which is set in 1665, the year the bubonic plague struck London. The novel is likely based on his uncle's diaries. Before he became famous as a novelist, Defoe wrote a satirical 1702 pamphlet titled The Shortest Way with the Dissenters. That work led him to get arrested and imprisoned for libel. A 1706 story by Defoe titled The Apparition of Mrs. Veal has been called the “first modern ghost story." In that work, a woman named Mrs. Bargtrave apparently has a long conversation with the title character, only to later discover that Mrs. Veal had died the previous day.
DAILY DOUBLE #2
THE MEASURE OF A MAN
You only need letters on the left side of the keyboard to type this unit of capacitance that's named for an English chap
***FARAD***
Some commonly encountered eponymous units in physics include:
Farad - measures capacitance (the ability to store charge); it is named for the English scientist Michael Faraday, who invented the dynamo (type of electric generator) and whose namesake “cage” can shield a device from outside electrical fields
Henry - measures inductance (the tendency to oppose a change in the electric current); it is named for the American scientist Joseph Henry (the only American who is the namesake of an SI unit), who invented a precursor to the doorbell and was the first head of the Smithsonian
Siemens - measures electrical conductance (the reciprocal of resistance), which is why it was historically referred to as the mho (since that word backwards is ohm, which measures resistance); it is named for the German electrical engineer Werner von Siemens (pictured below), who himself is the namesake of the technology conglomerate Siemens AG (AG = Aktiengesellschaft, meaning a corporation owned by shareholders)
DAILY DOUBLE #3
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
In the 1950s this NL team temporarily changed its name so as not to be associated with communism
***CINCINNATI REDS***
The Cincinnati Reds were founded in 1882 and were originally called the Red Stockings. The nickname was shortened to just Reds in 1890. Due to the Red Scare, they changed their nickname to