JAQR - February 11, 2024
Folk singers, Classic toys, World flags, Literary characters, Wonders of the Ancient World, Pittsburgh Steelers coaches, Wallace Stevens, and 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 2/5 and Friday 2/9. 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
SOONER
This folk singer was born in Okemah in 1912 & named for President Wilson
DAILY DOUBLE #2
CLASSIC TOYS & GAMES
This toy with a sister named Yam was the first toy advertised on TV, back in 1952
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
WORLD FLAGS
The flag of this Asian nation features part of a World Heritage Site built in the 12th century
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
LITERARY CHARACTERS
A 1902 work says an enigmatic character has a half-English mom & a half-French dad, but this name of his is German for "short"
FINAL JEOPARDY #3
WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
Achilles Tatius wrote that it "was like a mountain... at the top of this mountain rose a second sun"
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
LAKES & RIVERS
Europe's longest river, the Volga flows more than 2,000 miles south into this large inland body of water
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
AHHH, THE FRENCH
Barely over five-feet tall but a giant in his field, this artist gave us "Au Salon de la rue des Moulins" in the 1890s
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
THE MOURNING NEWS
This grief-stricken actor kept a vigil until rescue teams recovered his wife Carole Lombard's remains after a 1942 plane crash
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
SUPER BOWL STARS
In 2006, Bill Cowher coached a spunky Steelers squad to a Super Bowl win, the first win for Pittsburgh since this legendary coach won 4 titles beginning in 1975
TRIPLE STUMPER #5
POETRY
Wallace Stevens wrote, "Among twenty snowy mountains, the only moving thing was the eye of" this creature
BONUS CLUE #1
BRITISH LITERATURE
A man stopped on his way to a wedding feast is told of tragic events aboard a ship in this 1798 narrative poem
BONUS CLUE #2
SOONER
Born in Tulsa in 1962, this country singer known for "The Dance" once tried his hand at baseball while already famous
DAILY DOUBLE #1
SOONER
This folk singer was born in Okemah in 1912 & named for President Wilson
***WOODY GUTHRIE***
The folk singer Woodrow “Woody” (Wilson) Guthrie (1912-1967) wrote more than a thousand songs, including “This Land Is Your Land.” He was a songwriter for a group of activist performers called The Almanac Singers and had a guitar that included the message "This machine kills fascists." Guthrie’s songs include "Do Re Mi," which appeared on his 1940 album Dust Bowl Ballads and warned would-be Dust Bowl migrants to stay where they were and not travel to California unless they have money (“Believe it or not, you won't find it so hot / If you ain't got the do re mi”). The album Dust Bowl Ballads also includes the song "So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh" (originally titled "Dusty Old Dust"). A visit to the Pacific Northwest in 1941 inspired Guthrie’s song "Roll On, Columbia, Roll On," which is the official state folk song of Washington. Its lyrics include “And on up the river is Grand Coulee Dam / The mightiest thing ever built by a man.”
Guthrie’s 1943 autobiography was titled Bound for Glory. It was adapted into a 1976 biopic that was directed by Hal Ashby (who also directed Being There) and starred David Carradine [KAR-ah-deen] (who played the title character in Kill Bill). His children included Arlo Guthrie, who was also a musician perhaps best known for a cover of “City of New Orleans” and the 18-minute song “Alice's Restaurant.” Woody Guthrie was hospitalized in 1954 due to Huntington disease and died from complications of it. English singer Billy Bragg and the alternative rock band Wilco released the 1998 album Mermaid Avenue, which contains previously unheard lyrics by Woody Guthrie.
DAILY DOUBLE #2
CLASSIC TOYS & GAMES
This toy with a sister named Yam was the first toy advertised on TV, back in 1952
***MR. POTATO HEAD***
Mr. Potato Head was invented in 1949 by George Lerner, who designed plastic face parts to push into fruits and vegetables. The toy was initially unpopular since consumers had to provide their own produce and didn’t like the idea of wasting food. The toy was purchased by the company Hasbro (originally called Hassenfeld Brothers) and now it is manufactured by Playskool (a brand of Hasbro). A plastic head was included starting in 1964. The potato head comes with eyes, ears, a nose, mouth, hat, shoes, and glasses. Due to anti-tobacco protests in 1987, a pipe is no longer included. Mr. Potato Head’s family also includes a brother named Spud. Other similar toys by Hasbro included Oscar the Orange and Pete the Pepper. Other media properties inspired Darth Tater (Star Wars), Optimash Prime (Transformers), and Tony Starch (Iron Man). Mr. Potato Head was voiced by Don Rickles in the Toy Story movies.
Other voices from the Toy Story franchise include:
Bo Peep = Annie Potts (aka Mary Jo Shively, the main interior designer of the firm Sugarbaker's on Designing Women and the title character’s Meemaw (grandmother) on Young Sheldon)
Hamm (piggy bank) = John Ratzenberger (AKA postal worker and Jeopardy! contestant Cliff Clavin on Cheers)
Rex (dinosaur) = Wallace Shawn (aka the Sicilian criminal Vizzini in The Princess Bride and the initially tough teacher Mr. Hall in Clueless)
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
WORLD FLAGS
The flag of this Asian nation features part of a World Heritage Site built in the 12th century