JAQR - April 21, 2024
Viral diseases, Arizona rivers, Comic book characters, Robert B. Parker, Charles Boyer, EGOT winners, and much more...
Thank you for reading another issue of the Jeopardy Answer & Question Recap, or JAQR [“jacker”] for short. This recap includes two clues from each Jeopardy! episode between Monday 4/15 and Friday 4/19. The recap will include Daily Doubles, Final Jeopardy clues, 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
HISTORIC AMERICANS
Largely of Sac & Fox descent, he served as the first president of the American Professional Football Association
DAILY DOUBLE #2
A "M"EDICAL DICTIONARY
Swelling of the parotid glands is a symptom of this acute viral disease
DAILY DOUBLE #3
BOOKS IN HISTORY
Economist F.A. Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" came out in 1944 when this woman was at Oxford & was a huge influence on her later policies
DAILY DOUBLE #4
U.S. GEOGRAPHY
Leapin' lizards! This river flows 630 miles before joining the Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona
FINAL JEOAPRDY #1
ORGANIZATIONS
The press called the donations received after this org.'s 1938 founding "a silver tide which actually swamped the White House"
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS
Featured in a 2020 film, she gets her name from a 16th c. Italian stock character who often wore diamond-patterned outfits
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
THAT BAND'S AN INSTITUTION
This, I call it this, that this "One Step Beyond" & "Our House" band formed in 1976 is still touring with its original members
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
PAGING THE FICTIONAL DRIVER
This Robert B. Parker detective, if that's your maroon MGB with whitewalls, your lights are on
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
THINGS TO DO IN THE CITY
Ride one of Africa's first metros or visit the Casbah & feel like Charles Boyer in the movie named for this city
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
ACTING UP AT JUILLIARD
A Tony for "King Hedley II" & an Oscar for "Fences" are part of this Group 22 woman's EGOT
BONUS CLUE #1
A LOVE FOR BOOKS
Roddy Doyle's novel "Love" finds 2 old friends reconnecting in this world capital for a revealing evening of drinking
BONUS CLUE #2
POETS OF LOVE
This poet who died young in Rome wrote, "Hither, hither, hither / Love this boon has sent-- / If I die & wither / I shall die content"
BONUS CLUE #3
THINGS TO DO IN THE CITY
Deal with 77º temps in its cold season & get your kicks above the waistline, sunshine, with a mussel omelet at Daeng Racha Hoi Tod
DAILY DOUBLE #1
HISTORIC AMERICANS
Largely of Sac & Fox descent, he served as the first president of the American Professional Football Association
***JIM THORPE***
Jim Thorpe was born in 1888 in what was then called Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). He played football at an Indian boarding school (Carlisle Indian Industrial School) whose coach was Pop Warner. The team defeated major college programs, including Harvard in 1911 and Army in 1912 (a game in which future president Dwight Eisenhower injured his knee trying to tackle him). Thorpe competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm where he won the gold medal in both the pentathlon and the decathlon. Swedish king Gustav V told him “you are the greatest athlete in the world." However, his medals were stripped the following year after an investigation revealed that he had earlier made a tiny bit of money playing minor league baseball.
Thorpe would go on to play professional baseball from 1913-1919 (mostly as an outfielder) and professional football from 1919-1926 (mostly as a running back). One of the NFL teams he played on was the Oorang Indians, which were comprised entirely of Native Americans and were named by team owner Walter Lingo to promote his dog kennels (Oorang is an alternate term for a breed called the Airedale Terrier). Thorpe was named the greatest American athlete of the first half of the 20th century in 1950 by the Associated Press. The following year he was played by Burt Lancaster in the movie Jim Thorpe – All-American. Two communities (Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk) in eastern Pennsylvania merged to form a town named Jim Thorpe one year after his 1953 death.
DAILY DOUBLE #2
A "M"EDICAL DICTIONARY
Swelling of the parotid glands is a symptom of this acute viral disease
***MUMPS***
Mumps is a contagious disease caused by, appropriately enough, the mumps virus. Symptoms of the disease include swelling of the salivary glands, specifically the largest of the three pairs of salivary glands, the parotids (located in the cheeks in front of the ears). FYI the submandibular and the sublingual are the other other two pairs of salivary glands. Another name for mumps is epidemic parotitis. Mumps was a once-common childhood disease, but now it can be prevented with the two-dose MMR vaccine, which also provides protection against measles and rubella. The vaccine for mumps was developed by Maurice Hilleman, who created many vaccines (e.g. hepatitis A and chickenpox) while working at Merck.
DAILY DOUBLE #3
BOOKS IN HISTORY
Economist F.A. Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" came out in 1944 when this woman was at Oxford & was a huge influence on her later policies
***MARGARET THATCHER***
Margaret Thatcher, who was Europe's first female prime minister, served three consecutive terms as British PM from 1979-1990. She was born in 1925, was the daughter of a grocer, and attended Oxford. Thatcher later worked as a research chemist, and according to legend, helped invent soft-serve ice cream. She entered the House of Commons in 1959 and later served as secretary of state for education and science in the cabinet of Edward Heath. She eliminated a program that provided free milk to schoolchildren, thus earning Thatcher the nickname "Milk Snatcher." Nevertheless, she was elected leader of the Conservative Party in 1975. Thatcher was nicknamed the “Iron Lady” by the Soviet journalist Yuri Gavrilov after a 1976 speech (“Britain Awake”) that condemned communism. She was preceded as PM by the Labour politician James Callaghan, whose term saw the “Winter of Discontent” (six weeks of strikes in the winter of 1978–1979).