JAQR - December 16, 2022
UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Arnold Schwarzenegger roles, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and more...
Thank you for reading another issue of the Jeopardy Answer & Question Recap, or JAQR [“jacker”] for short. This recap focuses on the recent week (Monday 12/12 - Friday 12/16) of Jeopardy! episodes. It will include some Daily Doubles, Final Jeopardys, 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.
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DAILY DOUBLE #1
19th CENTURY LITERATURE
This Englishwoman wrote 1823's "Valperga"; her first novel also had a one-word title but is more famous
DAILY DOUBLE #2
PLACE"O" (your response should end in the letter “O”)
Only Greenland & New Guinea are larger islands in size than this one in the Pacific
DAILY DOUBLE #3
CHEMISTRY
Orpiment, formula As2S3 was a longtime aid to painters as a yellow pigment, but not now, due to this, the As
DAILY DOUBLE #4
HERE'S THE PLAY OF THE DAY!
In 2010 Abigail Breslin & Alison Pill played Broadway roles originated by Patty Duke & Anne Bancroft in 1959 in this play
DAILY DOUBLE #5
BRIEF LIVES
Stole into existence in 1910; she was the first half of a noted couple; got lead poisoning via police in 1934
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
PRESIDENTIAL FACTS
Only 3 presidents have married while in office--John Tyler was the first & he was the last
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
It's home to 58 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, more than any other country; the sites include a volcano & a lagoon
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
CHICAGO TV
In the HBO version of this novel, Rose Leslie is Art Institute student Clare, involved with a chronologically nonlinear guy
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
1982: A YEAR IN FILM
What's best in life, this Arnold guy? "Crush your enemies, see them driven before you & hear the lamentation of their women"
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
TV & MOVIE PLACES
TV's Buffy Summers attends high school in this town
DAILY DOUBLE #1
19th CENTURY LITERATURE
This Englishwoman wrote 1823's "Valperga"; her first novel also had a one-word title but is more famous
***MARY SHELLEY***
Mary Shelley (seen below) was a 19th century English novelist. She was the daughter of the philosophers William Godwin (author of An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice) and Mary Wollstonecraft (author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman). Mary Shelley married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose poems include “Ode to the West Wind” and “Ozymandias.” Mary Shelley’s relatively obscure historical novel Valperga is set in the 14th century and centers on Castruccio Castracan, whose army threaten the titular fortress, which is governed by the interestingly named Countess Euthanasia. Mary Shelley is most famous for her 1818 novel Frankenstein, which has the subtitle "The Modern Prometheus." The novel’s title character is the scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a hideous creature that was played by Boris Karloff in the 1931 movie Frankenstein.
DAILY DOUBLE #2
PLACE"O" (your response should end in the letter “O”)
Only Greenland & New Guinea are larger islands in size than this one in the Pacific
***BORNEO***
Borneo, the world's third largest island, is located in the southwest portion of the Pacific Ocean. Borneo is bordered to the north by the South China Sea. Borneo is separated from the Philippines to the northeast by the Sulu Sea, which is the namesake of George Takei’s character on Star Trek. Borneo is bordered to the east by the Celebes [SEH-leh-beez] Sea, which itself is north of its namesake k-shaped island (which is perhaps better known as Sulawesi [soo-lah-WEY-see] these days). Borneo is separated by the Makassar Strait from the island of Sulawesi/Celebes. Borneo's highest peak (and Malaysia's too) is Mount Kinabalu, which is in the Crocker Range. The forests of Borneo are home to the largest flower in the world, the parasitic Rafflesia arnoldii, which can grow to three feet across and weigh 15 pounds. The red-brown proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus), famed for its large nose, is also endemic to the forests of Borneo.
The island of Borneo contains part of three different countries: Indonesia (72% by area), Malaysia (27%), and Brunei (1%). The Indonesian name of the island of Borneo is Kalimantan [kah-lee-MAHN-tahn], which is used in English to refer to the Indonesian portion of the island, which is roughly the southern three-fourths. Indonesia is planning to replace its capital of Jakarta (on Java) with the planned city of Nusantara (on Borneo). Malaysia is separated into two regions by the South China Sea: West Malaysia (also called Peninsular Malaysia) and East Malaysia (on Borneo). Malaysia's two states on Borneo are Sarawak [sah-RAH-wahk] and Sabah [SAH-bah]. The first season of Survivor was set on Tiga Island, which is just off the coast of Sabah. Unlike Indonesia and Malaysia, all of Brunei is found on the island of Borneo. Bandar Seri Begawan is the capital of Brunei, which is now an Islamic sultanate after achieving independence from Britain in 1984. The country’s formal name, Brunei Darussalam, means “Brunei, Abode of Peace.”
DAILY DOUBLE #3
CHEMISTRY
Orpiment, formula As2S3 was a longtime aid to painters as a yellow pigment, but not now, due to this, the As
***ARSENIC***
Arsenic is a chemical element with atomic number 33 and symbol As. It is below phosphorus on the periodic table and is part of group 15 (also known as the nitrogen group), whose members are called pnictogens (with a silent 'p'). The name of arsenic is actually derived from the mineral orpiment (seen below). Arsenic was often used as a poison since it is odorless and easily put into food/drink. It was also nearly untraceable in the body until the development of the Marsh test. One of the first people to isolate arsenic was the 13th century German scientist Albertus Magnus, who is probably better known as a philosopher and the teacher of St. Thomas Aquinas. The first effective treatment for syphilis, Salvarsan, contained arsenic, and was first made in the lab of Paul Ehrlich, who popularized the term “magic bullet.” The title character of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary kills herself with arsenic. It is quite possible that Napoleon died from arsenic in his wallpaper on Saint Helena or was assassinated by arsenic poisoning.
DAILY DOUBLE #4
HERE'S THE PLAY OF THE DAY!
In 2010 Abigail Breslin & Alison Pill played Broadway roles originated by Patty Duke & Anne Bancroft in 1959 in this play
***THE MIRACLE WORKER***
Helen Keller (1880-1968) was a blind and deaf woman who was taught by Anne Sullivan (1866-1936). William Gibson wrote the play The Miracle Worker, which premiered on Broadway in 1959. The play includes a famous scene in which Keller learns to finger-spell the word "water." Keller eventually attended and graduated from Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mark Twain was the first to call Anne Sullivan a "miracle worker," and Helen Keller could supposedly identify Twain by his cigar scent. William Gibson also wrote the screenplay for the movie of the same name, which was released in 1962. Anne Bancroft won the Oscar for Best Actress for playing Anne Sullivan and Patty Duke won Best Supporting Actress for playing Helen Keller. Patty Duke’s two-word acceptance “speech” at the Oscars ceremony was “thank you.”
DAILY DOUBLE #5
BRIEF LIVES
Stole into existence in 1910; she was the first half of a noted couple; got lead poisoning via police in 1934
***BONNIE PARKER***
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were a notorious robbery team during the Great Depression. They robbed many banks and gas stations and killed around 13 people. Bonnie and Clyde both died in 1934 of gunshot wounds after being ambushed by police along a highway in northwest Louisiana. Their bullet-riddled "death car" is now located in Primm, Nevada at Whiskey Pete's Hotel & Casino. They were played by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty in the 1967 movie Bonnie and Clyde, which was directed by Arthur Penn. The movie popularized the fast instrumental song "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" written by bluegrass banjo player Earl Scruggs.
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
PRESIDENTIAL FACTS
Only 3 presidents have married while in office--John Tyler was the first & he was the last
***WOODROW WILSON***
(Thomas) Woodrow Wilson served from 1913-1921 as the 28th president of the U.S. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton and later served as its president. Wilson is the only president with a PhD (from Johns Hopkins). Wilson was serving as Governor of New Jersey when he won the U.S. presidential election of 1912. The New Freedom was his campaign platform, and he easily won the electoral vote over the incumbent William Howard Taft (Republican Party) and Taft's predecessor Teddy Roosevelt (Bull Moose Party). Part of the New Freedom program was the creation of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Trade Commission. Wilson’s first wife, Ellen, died in 1914 of nephritis (inflammation of the kidneys), which was then known as Bright's disease. He married Edith the following year while in office.
Wilson defeated Charles Evans Hughes to win re-election in 1916, thanks in part to his campaign slogan "He kept us our of war." The U.S. entered the war the following year. Wilson proposed "Fourteen Points" for peace in a 1918 speech. World War I was eventually ended, in part, by the Treaty of Versailles, which included the establishment of the League of Nations. Shortly after touring the U.S. giving speeches in favor of ratifying the treaty, Wilson had a massive stroke and never fully functioned as president again. Notable figures in Wilson's cabinet included William Jennings Bryan (Secretary of State), his son-in-law William Gibbs McAdoo (Secretary of the Treasury), and A. Mitchell Palmer (Attorney General), who is the namesake of the raids that began in 1919 and resulted in many anarchists and communists being arrested and deported.
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
It's home to 58 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, more than any other country; the sites include a volcano & a lagoon
***ITALY***
Italy has the most sites, China has the second-most with 56, and Germany is third with 51. Italy’s sites referenced in the clue include the active stratovolcano Mount Etna (seen below), which is on the island of Sicily, and the lagoon of Venice. Some of Italy’s lesser-known sites include:
Rock Drawings in Valcamonica - valley in Lombardy containing many prehistoric petroglyphs
Historic Centre of San Gimignano [jee-meen-YAH-noh] - town in Tuscany containing 14 tower-houses
The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera - site in the region of Basilicata dating to the Paleolithic period that features houses and churches built into caves
Crespi d'Adda - "company town" in Lombardy along the Adda River used by Cristoforo Benigno Crespi to house the workers of his textile factory
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
CHICAGO TV
In the HBO version of this novel, Rose Leslie is Art Institute student Clare, involved with a chronologically nonlinear guy
***THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE***
Audrey Niffenegger [NIF-eh-neg-er] is the author of the 2003 novel The Time Traveler’s Wife. It concerns art student Clare and the time-traveling librarian Henry, who has “Chrono-Displacement Disorder.” The book was adapted into a 2009 film of the same name starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana. The book was also adapted into a 2022 show on HBO, but was cancelled after just one season. The show starred Scottish actress Rose Leslie (who played Ygritte, the one who says “You know nothing, Jon Snow," on Game of Thrones) and English actor Theo James (who played Four in the Divergent movies). Audrey Niffenegger has also written the novel Her Fearful Symmetry, which concerns the Chicago-area twin sisters Julia and Valentina, who are left an apartment in London by their aunt.
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
1982: A YEAR IN FILM
What's best in life, this Arnold guy? "Crush your enemies, see them driven before you & hear the lamentation of their women"
***CONAN THE BARBARIAN***
Conan the Barbarian was created by pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard and first appeared in 1932 in the story "The Phoenix on the Sword," which was published in the magazine Weird Tales. Works featuring Conan are an example of the fantasy subgenre "sword and sorcery." Conan the Barbarian is from the fictional area of Cimmeria and lives during the fictional Hyborian age, which followed the disappearance of Atlantis. Marvel published Conan comic books from 1970-1993. Some of them featured Red Sonja, who was referred to as “She-Devil With a Sword” and was known for her "bikini armor." Arnold Schwarzenegger played the title hero in the 1982 movie Conan the Barbarian, which begins with his mother being decapitated by Thulsa Doom, played by James Earl Jones. Wilt Chamberlain co-starred in the 1984 sequel, Conan the Destroyer.
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
TV & MOVIE PLACES
TV's Buffy Summers attends high school in this town
***SUNNYDALE***
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) was a supernatural TV show that starred Sarah Michelle Gellar as the title character and aired on The WB and UPN. Sunnydale High School was on top of a gateway to demon realms called a “hellmouth.” Buffy's loyal friends, called the Scooby Gang, or Scoobies, included Willow (played by Alyson Hannigan) and Xander (played by Nicholas Brendon). One of the most famous episodes of the show, "Once More, with Feeling," was a musical episode. A fictional nightclub on the show that often featured live music (e.g. Aimee Mann) was the Bronze. The show is believed to have been the first on TV to use Google as a verb ("Have you Googled her yet?"..."She's 17!"..."It's a search engine!"). The show was created by Joss Whedon, who co-created a spinoff titled Angel (starring David Boreanaz). Whedon also created TV dramas such as Firefly (starring Nathan Fillion) and Dollhouse (starring Eliza Dushku). He directed the MCU movies The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron.
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