JAQR - February 2, 2025
The 2024 Tony Awards, World War II battles, Ernest Hemingway books, Bix Beiderbecke, Boyz n the Hood, World Capitals, 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 1/27 and Friday 1/31. The recap includes Triple Stumpers, Final Jeopardy clues, and Daily Doubles. There’s also questions about material from last week and Bonus Clues about previously covered topics. 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
A WINGED CATEGORY
The Tony Award is named for this actress, director & co-founder of the American Theater Wing
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
WORLD WAR II FACTS
Vasily Zaitsev killed 225 people at this 1942 battle & later was played by Jude Law in a 2001 film
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
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DAILY DOUBLE #1
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Hemingway looked back on his life as a young writer in 1920s Paris in this memoir
Ernest was an ambulance driver in World War I, just like his hero Frederic Henry in this novel
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
U.S. CITIES
Take a load off in this third-largest Iowa city that hosts a famous jazz festival honoring native son Bix Beiderbecke
TRIPLE STUMPER #5
FILMMAKERS
Fresh out of film school, he insisted on directing his screenplay of Boyz n the Hood, which starred Ice Cube & Cuba Gooding Jr.
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
WORLD CAPITALS
Home to more than 400,000, it's the only world capital in the "Roaring Forties" latitudes
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
U.S. PLACE NAMES
Before 1867, this city that lends its name to a type of tree was known as Novo Arkhangelsk
DAILY DOUBLE #2
LAKES OF AMERICA
Northwest of Allentown, Beltzville Lake is a popular fishing spot in this mountain range
LAST WEEK RECAP #1
What literary character, who is a disciple of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and has a name meaning "all tongues," is the tutor of Candide?
LAST WEEK RECAP #2
What capital city of Bahrain is only one letter different than the name of a Central American country?
BONUS CLUE #1
PUTTING THE CULTURE IN AGRICULTURE
Bathsheba Everdene owns a farm & Gabriel Oak is a shepherd in this Thomas Hardy novel 1st published in The Cornhill Magazine
BONUS CLUE #2
UNCLE KEN'S CASA DE PRE-OWNED VEHICLES
Okay, okay, Ralph Nader called this model that debuted in 1960 a one-car accident, but ain't it cute
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
The Tony Award is named for this actress, director & co-founder of the American Theater Wing
***ANTOINETTE PERRY***
The 77th Tony Awards were held in 2024. They were hosted by Ariana DeBose, who also hosted the previous two years. Some of the winners included:
Best Play = Stereophonic - written by David Adjmi and featuring music by Will Butler, the play is set in 1976 and centers on an up-and-coming rock band recording an album in a studio; loosely based on Fleetwood Mac, its cast includes Will Brill (who won Best Featured Actor in a Play); it set the record for most Tony nominations for a play (13)
Best Musical = The Outsiders - based on the YA novel by S. E. Hinton, it beat out Hell’s Kitchen (jukebox musical featuring the music of Alicia Keys), Illinoise (inspired by a 2005 Sufjan Stevens album), Suffs (based on the women's suffrage movement), and Water for Elephants (based on the Sara Gruen book)
Best Actor in a Play = Jeremy Strong - played Doctor Thomas Stockmann in an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play An Enemy of the People, which centers on a man who won’t be silenced after he finds contaminated water in his town's public baths
Best Actor in a Musical = Jonathan Groff – starred along with Daniel Radcliffe (who won Best Featured Actor in a Musical) and Lindsay Mendez in a revival of Merrily We Roll Along, which features music by Stephen Sondheim and was based on a George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart play; the musical centers on the unraveling of a three-way friendship that is told in reverse chronological order
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
WORLD WAR II FACTS
Vasily Zaitsev killed 225 people at this 1942 battle & later was played by Jude Law in a 2001 film
***STALINGRAD***
The Battle of Stalingrad was fought in Southern Russia from July 1942 to February 1943. The battle is named for the Soviet city of Stalingrad, which is now known as Volgograd (meaning “Volga City,” it is on the banks of the Volga River). A pivotal moment of the battle came in November 1942 when the Soviets launched Operation Uranus, which focused on the weak Axis flanks and resulted in the encirclement of Nazi forces and the surrender of Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus. Each side lost around one million soldiers during the battle.
One of the world's tallest statues, The Motherland Calls, commemorates the battle, which was the turning point in the European theatre. The battle is depicted in the 2001 movie Enemy at the Gates. The movie starred Jude Law as Zaitsev, Joseph Fiennes as the officer Danilov, Rachel Weisz as their romantic interest Tania Chernova, and Ed Harris as the Nazi sniper Major König. The 1999 historical fiction novel War of the Rats centers on the sniper duel as well.
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
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DAILY DOUBLE #1
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Hemingway looked back on his life as a young writer in 1920s Paris in this memoir
Ernest was an ambulance driver in World War I, just like his hero Frederic Henry in this novel
***A MOVEABLE FEAST*** & ***A FAREWELL TO ARMS***
Ernest Hemingway wrote the 1964 memoir A Moveable Feast. It centers on his time as a struggling writer in Paris from 1921 to 1926. Some of the chapters of the memoir center on Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach (owner of the bookstore Shakespeare and Company), Ford Madox Ford, Pascin (artist nicknamed "The Prince of Montparnasse”), Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The memoir also discusses his first marriage to Hadley Richardson. The memoir was published three years after he committed suicide by his literary executor and fourth wife, Mary Welsh Hemingway. The memoir shares its name with a holy day whose date is not fixed.
Hemingway wrote the tragic 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms. It was his third novel, after The Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises. The novel is set in Italy during World War I and its main characters are Frederic Henry (American lieutenant) and Catherine Barkley (English nurse). They fall in love in a hospital in Milan after he is injured by a mortar shell. Frederic is eventually sent back to the battlefield, but deserts and reunites with Catherine. They flee Italy and cross into Switzerland, where Catherine goes into labor. Their child is stillborn and Catherine hemorrhages to death.
The title of A Farewell to Arms is believed to have been inspired by a 1590 sonnet of the same name that was written for the retirement of Queen Elizabeth's champion knight, Henry Lee. That poem was written by George Peele, who may have also helped William Shakespeare write Titus Andronicus. The novel A Farewell to Arms was adapted into a 1932 movie starring Gary Cooper (also plays the main character in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Sergeant York, The Pride of the Yankees, and High Noon) and Helen Hayes (second EGOT winner, after Richard Rodgers).
For more about Hemingway’s four wives, check out Final Jeopardy #1 from this past recap: https://jaqr.substack.com/p/jaqr-september-24-2023
For more about Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises, check out Triple Stumper #1 from this past recap: https://jaqr.substack.com/p/jaqr-may-21-2023
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
U.S. CITIES
Take a load off in this third-largest Iowa city that hosts a famous jazz festival honoring native son Bix Beiderbecke