JAQR - December 23, 2022
Indian geography, the Atlanta Braves, Native American history, 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 12/19 - Friday 12/23) 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.
P.S. Thank you to those who sent me Christmas/holiday gifts last week :)
DAILY DOUBLE #1
TELEVISION THEN & NOW
The main characters of "Back to the Future" helped inspire this animated series that debuted in 2013
DAILY DOUBLE #2
GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY
Northeast of Bilbao, this town was the site of tragedy on April 26, 1937, when 1/3 of its people were killed or wounded in a German attack
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
CLASSIC SONGS
The shouts of excited children at a 1946 holiday parade are said to have inspired this perennial favorite
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
FAMOUS NAMES
In 2001 he published a book called "Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall"; in 2002, "Existencilism"
FINAL JEOPARDY #3
AMERICAN POEMS
In an 1847 poem this character sees her town of Grand-Pré burned, but finally reunites with her beau for a kiss before his death
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
2, 3 OR 4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY
Longtime Portuguese colony of India
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
SPORTS FRANCHISES' PREVIOUS HOMES (name the most recent city where these teams were located before moving)
The Atlanta Braves
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
PACIFIC ISLANDS
TS - The Marquesas & Gambier islands are 2 of the 5 groups that make up this French overseas territory
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
NICOLE KIDMAN SAYS (name the movie or show in which she speaks these lines)
Getting nose-y: "Leonard, always the years between us. Always the years. Always, the love. Always..." (& we have a movie title!)
TRIPLE STUMPER #5
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY
This chief befriended Washington Territory settlers, who named a city for him & paid him for the use of his name
DAILY DOUBLE #1
TELEVISION THEN & NOW
The main characters of "Back to the Future" helped inspire this animated series that debuted in 2013
***RICK AND MORTY***
Rick and Morty is an animated sci-fi sitcom that airs on Adult Swim, which is the 9pm-6am programming block of the Cartoon Network. The main characters on the show, cynical scientist Rick Sanchez and his grandson Morty Smith, are very loosely based on Emmett "Doc" Brown and Marty McFly from the Back to the Future movies. Both of the title characters are voiced by Justin Roiland, who co-created the show with Dan Harmon (who created the show Community). A season three episode of the show (“The Rickshank Rickdemption”) featured Rick professing his love of McDonald's Szechuan Sauce (originally made to promote the 1998 movie Mulan), which led the restaurant to temporarily bring back the sauce. Some of the notable recurring characters on the show include Mr. Meeseeks, Birdperson, and Mr. Poopybutthole.
The other main characters from the show include:
Beth (Rick’s daughter / Morty’s mother) - voiced by Scrubs alum Sarah Chalke
Jerry (Rick’s son-in-law / Morty’s father) - voiced by SNL alum Chris Parnell
Summer (Rick’s granddaughter / Morty’s older sister) voiced by Spencer Grammer, the daughter of Kelsey Grammer
DAILY DOUBLE #2
GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY
Northeast of Bilbao, this town was the site of tragedy on April 26, 1937, when 1/3 of its people were killed or wounded in a German attack
***GUERNICA***
Guernica is a city in the Basque region of Spain. It was bombed by Nazi Germany’s Condor Legion, at the request of Francisco Franco's Nationalist army, during the Spanish Civil War. Guernica is also the title of a large (11 feet by 25 feet) Pablo Picasso painting that was his response to the bombing. It was originally shown at the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris. Some of the animals depicted in the partly-cubist black-and-white painting include a braying horse and a bellowing bull. A German officer in occupied Paris once asked Picasso if he had done the masterpiece, and Picasso replied, "No, you did." The painting is currently located in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
CLASSIC SONGS
The shouts of excited children at a 1946 holiday parade are said to have inspired this perennial favorite
***HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS***
The song “Here Comes Santa Claus” was written and performed by Gene Autry (1907-1998). He was born Orvon Grover Autry, and was nicknamed "Oklahoma's Yodeling Cowboy” and “The Singing Cowboy.” His signature song was “Back in the Saddle Again,” which features the lyrics “I'm back in the saddle again / Out where a friend is a friend / Where the longhorn cattle feed / On the lowly gypsum weed / Back in the saddle again.” He’s also famous for many Christmas songs: his recording of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" hit number one in 1949, and he was the first to record "Frosty the Snowman." Autry also appeared in nearly 100 movies (including Tumbling Tumbleweeds), many of which featured his sidekick Smiley Burnette and his trusty steed Champion the Wonder Horse. Autry was the founder of the record label Challenge Records, which formed a band called The Champs (named for Autry's horse). The band is famous for their mostly instrumental 1958 song "Tequila." Autry was also the founder and first owner of the Los Angeles Angels (Major League Baseball team). Fun fact: Autry is the only person on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with stars in all five categories (movies, TV, music, radio, and theater/live performance).
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
FAMOUS NAMES
In 2001 he published a book called "Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall"; in 2002, "Existencilism"
***BANKSY***
Banksy is an anonymous British artist with a rebellious spirit who is best known for his graffiti art in public places. He directed a 2010 documentary about street art and graffiti artists (especially Thierry Guetta aka Mr. Brainwash) titled Exit Through the Gift Shop. A copy of Banksy’s stencil mural Girl with Balloon was sold at Sotheby's in 2018 for $1.4 million. Immediately after the auction, the work began to self-destruct thanks to a hidden shredder in the frame. The partially destroyed work, now titled Love Is in the Bin (seen below), sold in 2021 for $25 million.
Banksy’s other works include:
Pulp Fiction (2002) - depicts characters played by John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson holding bananas instead of guns
Well Hung Lover (2006) - depicts a naked man hanging from a windowsill while a husband looks out trying to locate who's having an affair with his wife
Devolved Parliament (2009) - depicts chimpanzees in the House of Commons
The Son of a Migrant from Syria (2015) - located in an immigrant encampment in Calais, it depicts Steve Jobs, whose biological father was from Syria and studied in the U.S.
Banksy’s exhibitions include:
Barely Legal (2006) - included a literal "elephant in the room" (painted to look like wallpaper) in order to draw attention to world poverty
Dismaland (2015) - took the form of a "bemusement park" and featured a sculpture of Cinderella in a pumpkin carriage crash surrounded by paparazzi and another sculpture of a killer whale jumping out of a toilet
The Walled Off Hotel (2017) - located in Bethlehem and still open, the rooms feature views of the graffiti-strewn concrete wall that encloses occupied Palestine
FINAL JEOPARDY #3
AMERICAN POEMS
In an 1847 poem this character sees her town of Grand-Pré burned, but finally reunites with her beau for a kiss before his death
***EVANGELINE***
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) wrote the epic poem Evangeline, which was published in 1847. The story was based on an Acadian bride-to-be (Evangeline in the poem) who wandered for years trying to find her fiancé (Gabriel in the poem) after they were separated on their wedding day by the British, who forcibly removed the French-speaking inhabitants of Nova Scotia in 1755. The poem's prelude opens with the sentence "This is the forest primeval." The poem was written in dactylic hexameter, which was also used in the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid.
Other poems by Longfellow include:
“Paul Revere’s Ride” - the namesake silversmith warns people about an impending British raid “on the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five”
The Song of Hiawatha - epic poem that opens "by the shore of Gitche Gumee" and is named for an Ojibwa warrior who marries Minnehaha
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
2, 3 OR 4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY
Longtime Portuguese colony of India
***GOA***
India is composed of 28 states, the smallest of which is Goa. It is located on India’s southwest coast, and its capital is Panaji. Goa is bordered by Maharashtra (home to Mumbai) to the north and Karnataka (home to Bengaluru) to the east and south. Portuguese general Afonso de Albuquerque led the conquest of Goa in 1510. Indian troops invaded/liberated Goa (and Daman and Diu too) in 1961 as part of Operation Vijay (“Operation Victory”). Goa thereafter finally became a part of India after being a Portuguese possession for ~450 years. Goa is home to the Basilica of Bom Jesus (“Good Jesus”), which contains the tomb of St. Francis Xavier (co-founder of the Society of Jesus aka the Jesuits). Vindaloo is a spicy Indian curry originally from Goa. The word is “vindalu” in Goa’s official language of Konkani, and is derived from the Portuguese term “vinho de alho,” meaning “wine of garlic.”
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
SPORTS FRANCHISES' PREVIOUS HOMES (name the most recent city where these teams were located before moving)
The Atlanta Braves
***MILWAUKEE***
The Braves played in Boston (1871-1952) and Milwaukee (1953-1965) before moving to Atlanta in 1966. The team played in Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium and Turner Field (named for team owner Ted Turner) before moving to Truist Park (named for a banking services company) in 2017. The name of the team and the use of the tomahawk chop gesture by fans are both controversial. Home games feature a spandex-clad sprinter named The Freeze, who races fans. The most recent (and first in 21 years) MLB scorigami (scoring combination that has never happened before) was a 29-9 victory by the Braves over the Marlins in 2020.
The Braves won their first World Series in 1914 despite being in last place during the middle of the season. The team won their second World Series in 1957 thanks in part to starting pitcher Warren Spahn (most career wins by a leftie), third baseman Eddie Matthews (only person to play for the Braves in all three cities), and right fielder Hank Aaron (who later broke Babe Ruth's single season home run record and finished with 755 in total). The Atlanta Braves were dominant in the 1990s, thanks in part to manager Bobby Cox (who holds the all-time record for ejections with 158), third baseman Chipper Jones, and starting pitchers Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and John Smoltz, but only won one World Series title in 1995. The fourth and most recent World Series win for the Braves came in 2021, during first baseman Freddie Freeman’s last season with the team. The outfielder Jorge Soler won the 2021 World Series MVP during his one season with the Braves.
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
PACIFIC ISLANDS
TS - The Marquesas & Gambier islands are 2 of the 5 groups that make up this French overseas territory
***FRENCH POLYNESIA***
French Polynesia is an overseas collectivity (and only overseas country) of France that is located in the southern Pacific Ocean. Its capital is Papeete [pah-pee-EY-tey], which is on the island of Tahiti. There are around 130 islands divided into five main groups:
Society Islands - further divided into the Îles du Vent (Windward Islands) and Îles Sous le Vent (Leeward Islands), they include Tahiti and Bora Bora (whose name means “First Born”)
Tuamotu [too-ah-MOH-too] Archipelago - where Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki raft crashed after traveling ~5,000 miles in ~100 days from Peru
Gambier [GAM-beer] Islands - the closest islands to Pitcairn Island, whose inhabitants include descendants of the mutineers on the HMS Bounty
Marquesas [mar-KAY-sahs] Islands - Herman Melville's first novel, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, was about his experiences on Nuku Hiva, the largest of its islands
Austral Islands - also called the Tubuai Islands, they are the source of a sculpture of the god A'a that is currently in the British Museum
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
NICOLE KIDMAN SAYS (name the movie or show in which she speaks these lines)
Getting nose-y: "Leonard, always the years between us. Always the years. Always, the love. Always..." (& we have a movie title!)
***THE HOURS***
The Hours is a Pulitzer-winning 1998 novel by Michael Cunningham. The novel was adapted into a 2002 movie directed by Stephen Daldry (who also directed Billy Elliot and The Reader). The film's score is by minimalist composer Philip Glass (who also scored The Truman Show and The Illusionist). The novel tells three interwoven stories all taking place on a single day that concern:
Virginia Woolf (played by Nicole Kidman, who wore a large prosthetic nose and won the Oscar for Best Actress), as she begins to write Mrs. Dalloway in 1923 in England
Laura Brown (played by Julianne Moore), who is feeling the constraints of a seemingly perfect family and home as she plans a birthday party and bakes a cake for her husband in 1949 in California
Clarissa Vaughan (played by Meryl Streep), who is planning a party in honor of a friend, an award-winning poet who is dying from AIDS in New York in 1999
TRIPLE STUMPER #5
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY
This chief befriended Washington Territory settlers, who named a city for him & paid him for the use of his name
***CHIEF SEATTLE***
Seattle (1790-1866) was the chief of several tribes (e.g. Suquamish and Duwamish) near Puget Sound in present-day Washington state. Sealth and Si'ahl are more traditional spellings of his name. During treaty negotiations with the U.S. government, Chief Seattle is believed to have given a speech in which he stated “how can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land?” Chief Seattle was friends with the physician David Swinson Maynard, who advocated for the tribal community. Maynard also proposed naming the area after Chief Seattle, who initially opposed the idea because he believed his eternal sleep would be interrupted each time his name was mentioned. The only known photo of Chief Seattle can be seen below.
