JAQR - Big Money Recap #2 (Special Edition)
44 relatively hard questions
This recap contains dozens of questions based on at least one $2000 clue from each episode of Jeopardy! between 3/1/24 and 4/28/24. For example, if Jeopardy! originally had a clue like “This 18th century French writer may have derived his mononym from an anagram of a Latinized version of his surname, Arouet,” I might change it into a clue focusing on Voltaire’s literary works instead. The questions are divided into the following seven categories: Academic, Fine Arts, Geography, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, and Pop Culture.
P.S. If you missed the first Big Money Recap, which covered 1/1/24-2/28/24, check it out here: https://jaqr.substack.com/p/jaqr-big-money-recap-special-edition
P.P.S. Next week we’re back recapping the 2024 Jeopardy! Masters tournament (specifically games #11-14).
ACADEMIC
What novel's title character discovers he's Jewish, marries Mirah Lapidoth, and leaves for Palestine to establish a Jewish homeland? This novel was published about five years after Middlemarch.
The word "kaixo" [kai-sho] means "hello" in what language? It is spoken in the western Pyrenees and the city of Bilbao.
What state was the site of the final battle of the U.S. Civil War, which occurred one month after Lee surrendered at Appomattox? In this state, John "Rip" Ford led the Confederacy to victory at the Battle of Palmito Ranch in May 1865.
Rheasilvia is the one-word name of a large impact crater on what astronomical body? Heinrich Olbers discovered Pallas and this other asteroid.
Who served in between her father Frederik IX and her son Frederik X as Queen of Denmark from 1972-2024?
What man, who served as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, was the son of the 7th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture? This man, whose middle name was Agard, served in between John Nance Garner and Harry Truman as FDR's vice-president.
Ursula Brangwen’s relationship with the intellectual Rupert Birkin is contrasted with her sister Gudrun’s relationship with the industrialist Gerald Crich in a 1920 novel by what author? That novel by this Englishman was a sequel to The Rainbow.
Hydrodamalis gigas is the scientific name of what extinct dugong relative (depicted below)? This sirenian was hunted to extinction shortly after being “discovered” by a naturalist who was part of Vitus Bering's Great Northern Expedition.
***DANIEL DERONDA*** [by George Eliot]
***BASQUE*** (or ***EUSKARA***)
***TEXAS***
***VESTA***
***MARGRETHE II***
***HENRY A. WALLACE*** [son of Henry Cantwell Wallace]
***D.H. LAWRENCE*** [the 1920 novel is Women in Love]
***STELLER’S SEA COW*** [named for Georg Wilhelm Steller]
FINE ARTS
What dormant volcano with a permanent snowcap is depicted in the upper left of Frederic Edwin Church's 1859 painting The Heart of the Andes?
Ghostly spirits of girls who have died before their wedding day and must spend forever dancing called Wilis [VEE-leez] appear in what 1841 Adolphe Adam ballet?
The chamber opera Hydrogen Jukebox by Philip Glass takes its title from what poem? Lawrence Ferlinghetti won an obscenity trial for publishing this 1956 poem that was dedicated to Carl Solomon.
Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center was designed by what woman, the first to design an art museum in the U.S.? This Baghdad-born woman also designed Glasgow’s Riverside Museum and the Guangzhou Opera House.
Klaus Kinski's daughter Nastassja was photographed intertwined with a boa constrictor (pictured below) by what American? The model Dovima appears in between two elephants in another work by this portrait and fashion photographer.
***CHIMBORAZO***
***GISELLE***
***HOWL*** [by Allen Ginsberg]
***ZAHA HADID***
***RICHARD AVEDON***
GEOGRAPHY
New Ireland is the second largest member of what archipelago, which is located off the northeastern coast of New Guinea.
Which of Mexico's 31 states is first alphabetically? Zacatecas and Jalisco border this small state that is home to many hot springs.
Named for a U.S. Senator from North Carolina but located in a neighboring state, what mountain is the highest point along the Appalachian Trail?
Gasherbrum I and Broad Peak are part of what mountain range? The singly eponymous Mount Godwin-Austen (named for Henry Godwin-Austen) is also in this range, which has a Turkic name meaning “black rock.”
Many homes on the outskirts of what world capital were destroyed in Operation Murambatsvina, whose name means “Clear the Filth” in Shona? More populous than Bulawayo, this city was formerly named for British PM Lord Salisbury.
Lake Ladoga is connected to what gulf by the Neva River? Cities on this gulf include Tallinn, St. Petersburg, and Helsinki.
Suriname's highest mountain, Julianatop, is in a mountain range named for what European queen? This woman reigned from 1890-1948 before being succeeded by her daughter, Juliana.
Feleti Teo (pictured below) is the prime minister of what country formerly known as the Ellice Islands? This country’s flag depicts nine yellow stars, which represent its three reef islands and six atolls.
