JAQR - December 15, 2024
Junot Díaz, Fritz Lang, Bob Marley, William Wordsworth, William Ernest Henley, Anne Sexton, 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 12/9 and Friday 12/13. The recap includes Triple Stumpers, Daily Doubles, Final Jeopardy clues, and a whole bunch of Bonus Clues. 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.
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
MAIN CHARACTER
Junot Díaz wrote "The Brief Wondrous Life of" this bookish young Dominican kid, a lover of sci-fi & fantasy
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
LIFE IMITATES POP CULTURE
NASA's countdown before a rocket launch can be traced to a 1929 silent German film called "Frau im Mond", "Woman in" this
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
GALLERIES
From 1897 to 1932 what's now called this "Britain" was known as the National Gallery of British Art
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
"X"-RATED MUSIC
After getting shot, Bob Marley left Jamaica for London, where he recorded this song about "movement of jah people"
TRIPLE STUMPER #5A, #5B, & #5C
POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK
Wordsworth: "My heart leaps up when I behold a _______ in the sky: so was it when my life began; so is it now I am a man"
W.E. Henley: "I have not winced nor cried aloud / Under the bludgeonings of chance / My head is bloody but _______
Anne Sexton: "I have gone out, a possessed _____, haunting the black air, braver at night"
DAILY DOUBLE #1
ASIAN AMERICANS
The cake for his 100th birthday celebration was in the shape of one of his last buildings, the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha
DAILY DOUBLE #2
EMMY-WINNING TELEVISION MOVIES: REAL LIFE EDITION
This 1979 winner with an alliterative title tells of Michael Mullen, killed accidentally in Vietnam by his own side
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
ISLANDS OF EUROPE
In February 1793 the French were repulsed in an attack on this island from one just north that they controlled
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
TV PROPS
A prop central to the title character on this '60s sitcom began as a special Christmas edition whiskey decanter
LAST WEEK RECAP #1
Who played the title character in underwater scenes in the 1954 movie The Creature from the Black Lagoon?
LAST WEEK RECAP #2
What linebacker who spent his NFL career with the Rams and 49ers was nicknamed "Hacksaw"?
BONUS CLUE #1
A FLOCK OF DOVES
This former "Liv & Maddie" actress was named New Artist of the Year at the 2022 New American Music Awards
BONUS CLUE #2
A FLOCK OF DOVES
A dove takes its place at the head of the boat & leads the title character to the castle of the Holy Grail as this Wagner opera ends
BONUS CLUE #3
GALLERIES
Making a splash in American art, he had 3 solo shows at the Sidney Janis Gallery between 1952 & 1955, the first featuring "Blue Poles"
BONUS CLUE #4
GRAB BAG
In this novel, Major Major Major is made a major by an "I.B.M. machine with a sense of humor almost as keen as his father's"
BONUS CLUE #5
ISLANDS
Palma is the capital of this largest of the Balearic islands
BONUS CLUE #6
BROADWAY MUSICALS
Inspired by a Seurat painting, this Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine show won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in Drama
BONUS CLUE #7
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
The running mates of this candidate included John Kern, Arthur Sewall & Adlai Stevenson I
BONUS CLUE #8
TV SHOW TAGLINES
"Science makes sense, family doesn't" is a truth shared by this animated comedy
BONUS CLUE #9
AIRLINES PAST & PRESENT
When Sabena, this European country's national airline, got off the ground, its routes included Boma-Leopoldville-Elisabethville
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
MAIN CHARACTER
Junot Díaz wrote "The Brief Wondrous Life of" this bookish young Dominican kid, a lover of sci-fi & fantasy
***OSCAR WAO***
The writer Junot [JOO-noh] Díaz was born in 1968 in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. His family moved to New Jersey when he was six years old. While attending college at Rutgers, he worked various jobs, including pumping gas. His first book was the 1996 story collection Drown. Many of its semi-autobiographical stories are narrated by Yunior, a young Dominican immigrant. The collection includes a story written in the second-person titled “How To Date A Brown Girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie),” which features advice such as “Order everything in your busted-up Spanish. Amaze her if she’s black, let her correct you if she’s Latina.”
Diaz wrote the 2007 novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Yunior is the narrator of the novel, whose nerdy title character believes the fukú curse that originated during the Trujillo regime has haunted his family for generations. Diaz’s other collection is 2012’s This Is How You Lose Her, which concludes with another story in the second-person titled “The Cheater’s Guide to Love.”
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
LIFE IMITATES POP CULTURE
NASA's countdown before a rocket launch can be traced to a 1929 silent German film called "Frau im Mond", "Woman in" this
***THE MOON***
Fritz Lang directed the 1929 silent sci-fi movie Woman in the Moon. It was based on a novel by Lang’s wife Thea von Harbou. The movie includes a scientist who believes there’s gold on the moon and builds a rocket to get there. However, a wicked group of spies co-opt the mission in the hopes of plundering the gold.
Fritz Lang also directed:
Metropolis (1927) - also based on a novel by Lang’s wife, the influential movie depicts a grim futuristic society in the title city; the movie’s cast includes Brigitte Helm, who played both an activist named Maria and a robot based on her who is used by a wealthy corporate leader to to put down labor reformers; the robot was the model for C-3PO in Star Wars; the move entered the public domain in 2023
M (1931) - Lang's first sound film, it starred Peter Lorre as the serial child killer Hans Beckert, who often whistles “In the Hall of the Mountain King” and is caught after being marked with the title letter (representing “murderer”) in chalk
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
GALLERIES
From 1897 to 1932 what's now called this "Britain" was known as the National Gallery of British Art
***TATE***
The museum opened in 1897 and was originally called The National Gallery of British Art. It changed its name to the Tate Gallery in 1932. It changed its name again to Tate Britain in 2000, the year it began displaying only British art. Named for sugar tycoon Henry Tate, it is not to be confused with Tate Modern (located in a refurbished power station in London), Tate Liverpool, or Tate St Ives (contains contemporary art and is in Cornwall).
Tate Britain contains the Clore Gallery, which houses J. M. W. Turner works. Tate Britain also contains the 1852 painting Ophelia by Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood member John Everett Millais [mih-LEY]. It depicts the title Shakespearean character, who drowns after throwing herself in a river. The painting contains many different types of flowers, including a red poppy that represent death.
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
"X"-RATED MUSIC
After getting shot, Bob Marley left Jamaica for London, where he recorded this song about "movement of jah people"