JAQR - February 18, 2024
Pulitzer-winning plays, American scientists, Southern politicians, 1960s guitarists, John Greenleaf Whittier, Mahalia Jackson, moons of Jupiter, 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 2/12 and Friday 2/16. 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
LIFE IN THE 1920s
In a 1925 speech she said, "We have got to free women from enforced, enslaved maternity"
DAILY DOUBLE #2
1970s MOVIES
This 1976 drama ends with the typed out words "Gerald Ford to become 38th president at noon today"
DAILY DOUBLE #3
ONE-WORD PLAY TITLES
This 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner by John Patrick Shanley is set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964
DAILY DOUBLE #4
NOTABLE NAMES
In 1919 this American scientist published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes"
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
SOUTHERN POLITICIANS
An article written after his 1935 death asked, "Will some crown prince arise to take his place?"
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
BROADWAY PLAYS
Rita Moreno & Sally Struthers were the first to star in the female version of this comedy, their characters becoming Olive & Florence
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
MUSICIANS OF THE 1960s
Butch" Snipes in Seattle & "Baby Boo" Young in Tennessee are thought to have inspired this star to play guitar with his teeth
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
WISTFUL THINKING
John Greenleaf Whittier noted, "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these" 4 words
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
JACKSON
New Orleans-born Mahalia Jackson, "The Queen of" this music style, sang at JFK's inauguration
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
SCIENCE STUFF
Galileo discovered this, the largest moon of Jupiter & the largest satellite in our solar system
BONUS CLUE #1
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
Michael Connelly named this LAPD detective after a 15th century Dutch painter
BONUS CLUE #2
LANDMARKS
The distance between its 2 legs at ground level is 630 feet, making it as wide as it is tall
DAILY DOUBLE #1
LIFE IN THE 1920s
In a 1925 speech she said, "We have got to free women from enforced, enslaved maternity"
***MARGARET SANGER***
The social reformer Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) is considered to be the founder of the U.S. birth control movement. She was a nurse by training who believed that her mom died at a relatively young age due to her 18 pregnancies. Sanger was indicted in 1914 for mailing materials about birth control, such as the pamphlet Family Limitation, since the Comstock Act classified literature about contraceptives obscene material. She was jailed for 30 days in 1917 for operating a birth control clinic in Brooklyn. In 1921 she founded the precursor to Planned Parenthood called the American Birth Control League. Sanger was the subject of a 1995 TV movie titled Choices of the Heart, which starred Dana Delany (2x Emmy winner for her role as Army nurse Colleen McMurphy on the ABC drama China Beach). Sanger's niece, Olive Byrne, was the polyamorous domestic partner of Elizabeth Holloway Marston and William Moulton Marston, the latter of whom based Wonder Woman on Olive and Elizabeth.
DAILY DOUBLE #2
1970s MOVIES
This 1976 drama ends with the typed out words "Gerald Ford to become 38th president at noon today"
***ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN***
The 1974 book All the President’s Men was written by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, who were journalists for The Washington Post. The book details how they brought to light the Watergate scandal during the presidency of Richard Nixon. The book details Woodward's meetings with a source nicknamed Deep Throat (finally confirmed in 2005 to have been FBI Associate Director Mark Felt). The title was inspired by a remark made by Henry Kissinger, “We are all the President's men." The book’s first lines are "June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone." A follow-up to the book was released two years later and was titled The Final Days.
All the President’s Men was adapted into a 1976 movie in which Bernstein and Woodward were played by Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford. William Goldman, who won an Oscar for the movie's screenplay, later wrote the novels The Princess Bride and Marathon Man. Jason Robards won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for playing Ben Bradlee, the executive editor at WaPo. The movie popularized the phrase “follow the money.” The movie was the first of ~480 that Jimmy Carter watched in the White House Family Theater. The movie was directed by Alan J. Pakula and was part of his “paranoia trilogy” along with Klute (1971) and The Parallax View (1974). Pakula had earlier produced 1962's To Kill a Mockingbird (based on a Harper Lee novel) and later directed and wrote the screenplay to 1982’s Sophie's Choice (based on a William Styron novel).
DAILY DOUBLE #3
ONE-WORD PLAY TITLES
This 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner by John Patrick Shanley is set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964