JAQR - February 25, 2024
Places to visit, English painters, Presidential elections, National Statuary Hall, James M. Cain novels, Wealthy Americans, 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 2/19 and Thursday 2/22. The recap will include Daily Doubles, a Final Jeopardy clue, 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. Next week’s recap will focus on the exciting (and harder!) Tournament of Champions quarterfinals.
DAILY DOUBLE #1
THE QUESTION?
The answer to this question includes "to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach"
DAILY DOUBLE #2
PLACES TO VISIT
Tourists who make their way to these islands 600 miles off South America often miss the fur seals, which love rocky & shady areas
DAILY DOUBLE #3
BRIT SPEAK
Also the last name of an English painter, it's Brit-speak for a police officer
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
He's the most recent presidential candidate to have officially declared his opponent in that campaign the victor
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
NATIONAL STATUARY HALL
Charleston took down a statue of him in 2020, but this pro-slavery VP still stands in the Hall for South Carolina
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
LITERARY HELPERS
Frank helps Cora kill her hubby but is wrongly convicted of a murder he didn't commit in this James M. Cain novel
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
EXTREMELY RANDOM CALCULATIONS
Forbes' annual wealthiest Americans minus Fortune's annual biggest U.S. companies by revenue
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
FROM PAGE TO SCREAM
"The Turning" is a 2020 film adaptation of an 1898 supernatural story by this author
BONUS CLUE #1
19th CENTURY AMERICANS
In 1896, 15 years after a famous showdown, this man was accused of fixing a championship boxing match
DAILY DOUBLE #1
THE QUESTION?
The answer to this question includes "to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach"
***HOW DO I LOVE THEE?***
English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) wrote a collection of love poems titled Sonnets from the Portuguese. Its penultimate poem (#43) begins with the line “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” Another famous work from the collection (#33) begins “Yes, call me by my pet-name!” The first poem in the collection opens “I thought once how Theocritus had sung,” which references a 3rd century BCE poet who is considered the creator of pastoral poetry. Browning’s other works include the nine-book blank-verse novel Aurora Leigh (1856), which centers on the love story between the title girl and the philanthropist Romney. Browning had a pet spaniel named Flush, who was the protagonist of Virginia Woolf's fictional novel Flush: A Biography.
Elizabeth was married to fellow poet Robert Browning, even though her father disapproved and disinherited her. The collection Sonnets from the Portuguese records the early days of their secret courtship. Elizabeth published the poems as if they were translations of foreign works since they were of a personal nature. The initial title for the collection was Sonnets Translated from the Bosnian. Robert had earlier nicknamed her “My Little Portuguese,” partly for her relatively dark complexion and also since he admired her poem “Catarina to Camoens,” which is about a Portuguese woman’s love for the poet Luís de Camoens (author of the epic poem The Lusiads). Elizabeth and Robert’s courtship is the subject of the Rudolf Besier play The Barretts of Wimpole Street. They had one kid, who went by the name Pen. Elizabeth’s long 1851 poem Casa Guidi Windows was titled for their residence in Florence. The sculptor Harriet Hosmer created a work titled Clasped Hands of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a bronze version of which is in the Met.
DAILY DOUBLE #2
PLACES TO VISIT
Tourists who make their way to these islands 600 miles off South America often miss the fur seals, which love rocky & shady areas
***GALÁPAGOS***
The Galápagos are a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean. They are about 600 miles west of mainland Ecuador, to which they belong. The two largest islands by size are Isabela (through which the Equator passes) and Santa Cruz (home to the Charles Darwin Research Station). The islands were originally called Las Encantadas, meaning “The Enchanted (Isles),” due to the difficulty in navigating around them. They were later renamed for the large amount of tortoises found there. In 1835 Charles Darwin visited the Galápagos, whose finches played a role in his theory of evolution by natural selection. A rock formation off the coast of the Galápagos known as Darwin's Arch collapsed in 2021.
Some colorful animals that can be seen on the island include the blue-footed booby and the pink iguana. The flightless cormorant is endemic to the islands. The Galápagos penguin is the northernmost penguin species. The Galápagos fur seal is pictured below. The islands also title a novel (Galápagos) by Kurt Vonnegut that claims to be set one million years in the past, in 1986, when apocalypse survivors on the islands become the progenitors of a new human race. The Galápagos are also the setting of the 2021 Jodi Picoult [PEE-koh] novel Wish You Were Here, in which a woman travels to the islands by herself at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The Galápagos are considered to be the first UNESCO World Heritage Site. Ecuador’s other four are the city of Quito, the historic center of Cuenca, the Qhapaq Ñan (Andean road system constructed by the Inca), and Sangay National Park.
DAILY DOUBLE #3
BRIT SPEAK
Also the last name of an English painter, it's Brit-speak for a police officer