JAQR - February 23, 2025
Little House on the Prairie, Supreme Court decisions, dwarf planets, The Cisco Kid, Earth's atmosphere, Shakespeare plays, 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 2/17 and Friday 2/21 The recap includes Final Jeopardy clues, Triple Stumpers, and Daily Doubles. There’s also a questions about material from last week and a Bonus Clue about long ago 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.
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
LITERATURE & SICKNESS
Still around today, this strep infection that causes a rash has terrible effects in "Little Women" & the "Little House on the Prairie" books
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
This landmark case was reported in the N.Y. Times not on the front page but in "News of the Railroads"
FINAL JEOPARDY #3
THE ANCIENTS SPEAK
He wrote, "I must make the founder of lovely & famous Athens the counterpart... to the father of... glorious Rome"
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES
In 2005 a new dwarf planet was announced; it was nicknamed Xena & the 10th planet before astronomers settled on this name
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
ARE YOU INTO ASTROLOGY?
Fans of Malibu beaches & TV's "The Cisco Kid" know this first name of actor Carrillo, matching his sign
DAILY DOUBLE #1
EARTH SCIENCE
As its name suggests, this part of the atmosphere that begins about 50 miles up is rich in electrically charged particles
DAILY DOUBLE #2
SURPRISE! SHAKESPEARE!
The title of this play is fulfilled in Act V, Scene 3, when Helena finally gets her Bertram
DAILY DOUBLE #3
PROLOGUES
His intro to "Nobody Knows my Name": "In America, the color of my skin had stood between myself & me; in Europe, that barrier was down"
LAST WEEK REVIEW #1
Grape juice, vinegar, and mustard are some of the ingredients in what title beverage of a 1971 book by Judy Blume?
LAST WEEK REVIEW #2
Assemblage artworks by what woman include 1958's Sky Cathedral?
BONUS CLUE #1
ALBUM FILL IN THE BLANK
Post Malone, goin' country in 2024: "F-1 ________"
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
LITERATURE & SICKNESS
Still around today, this strep infection that causes a rash has terrible effects in "Little Women" & the "Little House on the Prairie" books
***SCARLET FEVER***
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in Wisconsin in 1867. Raised on a farm, she later moved to Missouri with her husband Almanzo and served as the “poultry editor” for the St. Louis Star. She is best known for the children’s book series Little House on the Prairie, whose title book is the actually the third in the series. The first book, published during the Great Depression when Wilder was 65 years old, was 1932’s Little House in the Big Woods. It was followed the next year by Farmer Boy, which was based on the childhood of her husband. The other five books in the series are On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937), By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939), The Long Winter (1940), Little Town on the Prairie (1941), and These Happy Golden Years (1943). There is debate over whether the novel The First Four Years should be considered part of the series since it is geared more towards adults. Caroline Fraser wrote a 2017 biography about Wilder titled Prairie Fires, which won a Pulitzer.
The book series Little House on the Prairie loosely inspired a TV show of the same name that ran on NBC from 1974–1983 and was set near Walnut Grove, Minnesota. The show starred Michael Landon as the family patriarch Charles Ingalls and Karen Grassle as Caroline Ingalls, who were called “Pa” and “Ma” by their four daughters: Mary, Laura, Carrie, and Grace. In season seven, the family adopted the siblings Cassandra and James, the latter of whom was played by Jason Bateman in his first TV role. Landon left the show before the final season, which resulted in the show adding the subtitle “A New Beginning” and focused more on Laura, played by Melissa Gilbert. The show inspired the title of the otherwise unrelated Canadian show Little Mosque on the Prairie, which aired from 2007 to 2012 and focused on the Muslim community of a small town in Saskatchewan.
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
This landmark case was reported in the N.Y. Times not on the front page but in "News of the Railroads"
***PLESSY V. FERGUSON***
Plessy v. Ferguson was an 1896 case that advanced the "separate but equal" doctrine for racial segregation laws. The case originated as a challenge to Louisiana's Separate Car Act, which was passed in 1890. The law required railroads to provide separate but equal accommodations and prevented Black passengers from entering areas for white passengers. Homer Plessy, who was an octoroon (seven-eighths white and one-eighth Black), tested the law by sitting in an area for white passengers and was arrested after he refused to move. Plessy was represented by the lawyer Albion W. Tourgée [toor-ZHAY], who also wrote novels, including one about Reconstruction titled A Fool's Errand, by One of the Fools.
The Supreme Court issued a seven to one decision against Plessy. The lone dissent was from John Marshall Harlan, who wrote that “Our Constitution is color-blind.” The case was essentially overturned by 1954’s Brown v. Board of Education. While serving as a law clerk, William Rehnquist wrote a memo ("A Random Thought on the Segregation Cases") during early deliberations of Brown that stated the decision in Plessy was correct and should be re-affirmed. Rehnquist was later appointed by Nixon to the Supreme Court and elevated to Chief Justice by Reagan.
FINAL JEOPARDY #3
THE ANCIENTS SPEAK
He wrote, "I must make the founder of lovely & famous Athens the counterpart... to the father of... glorious Rome"
***PLUTARCH***
The historian and biographer Plutarch was born in AD 46 in the town of Chaeronea [ker-uh-NEE-uh] in the Greek region of Boeotia [bee-OH-shee-ah]. He is best known for the work Parallel Lives, which was written around AD 101. The work contains 23 pairs of biographies, each of which covers one Greek and one Roman person (e.g. Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar). Other notable pairings include Demosthenes and Cicero (both orators), Alcibiades and Coriolanus (military leaders whose major flaw was their excessive pride), Theseus and Romulus (the founders of Athens and Rome), Lycurgus and Numa Pompilius (lawgivers of Sparta and Rome noted for their moderation), Dion of Syracuse and Brutus (took actions to overthrow tyrants), and Themistocles and Camillus (saved Athens from the Persians and Rome from the Gauls).
Some lesser-known historical figures from Parallel Lives include:
Cimon [KYE-mon] - Athenian who was the son of Miltiades (the victorious commander at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE); he gained famed for his courage at the Battle of Salamis in 480 BCE and was soon elected strategos (general); he became the main commander of the Delian League (confederacy of Greek city-states that fought the Persian Empire) and was victorious at the Battle of the Eurymedon, but was ostracized after being accused of bribery by his rival Pericles; he was paired with Lucullus by Plutarch
Agesilaus II [uh-jess-ih-LAY-us] - king of Sparta from 399 to 360 BCE, during which time Sparta was weakened by the Corinthian War (395 to 387 BC) and lost to Thebes at the battles of Leuctra (371 BCE) and Mantinea (362 BC); subject of a biography by his friend Xenophon, he was paired with Pompey the Great in Parallel Lives (military leaders who ultimately faced downfall)
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES
In 2005 a new dwarf planet was announced; it was nicknamed Xena & the 10th planet before astronomers settled on this name