JAQR - February 3, 2023
Speed skaters, Cecil Rhodes, P.D. James, Danny McBride, and more...
Thank you for reading another issue of the Jeopardy Answer & Question Recap, or JAQR [“jacker”] for short. This recap focuses on the recent week (Monday 1/30 - Friday 2/3) of Jeopardy! episodes. It will include some Daily Doubles, Final Jeopardys, 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
EXPLORATION
"These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale", this British explorer wrote in 1912 in one of his final diary entries
DAILY DOUBLE #2
SCARY MOVIES
Bram Stoker's widow got a court order to have this 1922 German silent classic destroyed--but it survived, as vampires do
DAILY DOUBLE #3
"IN" THE RIGHT PLACE
This European city had the good fortune to host the Olympics twice--in 1964 & in 1976
DAILY DOUBLE #4
SECOND CITIES
Bulawayo in this nation is home to State House, built by Cecil Rhodes
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
LITERATURE
Published in 2011, P.D. James' final novel, "Death Comes to Pemberley", was a sequel to this novel from 200 years earlier
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
WORLD WAR II
Mimi Reinhard, who never learned to type using more than 2 fingers, produced this with 1,100 names, including hers
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
THEY WROTE THE MOVIE
David Webb Peoples wrote the script for this Western with Clint Eastwood as a killer-turned-farmer-turned-killer
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
TV CHARACTER FIRST NAMES
"Eastbound & Down": rocket-armed, mullet-haired Mr. Powers
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
DWIGHT EISENHOWER
Opened in 2020, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial is the first public work in Washington, D.C. by this renowned American architect
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
POP MUSIC
An outlier ballad from this British metal band was "Changes" in 1972; it was rarely performed live
DAILY DOUBLE #1
EXPLORATION
"These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale", this British explorer wrote in 1912 in one of his final diary entries
***ROBERT FALCON SCOTT***
Robert Falcon Scott was an English explorer who led the second expedition that reached the South Pole. On the Terra Nova expedition, Scott and four others reached the South Pole in January of 1912, about one month after the team of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. Due to bad weather and a low amount of food and supplies, Scott and the four others died on the way back, a mere 12 miles away from a supply depot. One of men who died on the return trip was Lawrence Oates, who suffered from frostbite on his toes and basically sacrificed himself so that he wouldn’t slow down the others. Before leaving a tent, his last words were "I am just going outside and may be some time." Scott wrote a letter to his friend J. M. Barrie (the creator of Peter Pan) shortly before his own death asking him to “help my widow and my boy.” A fictionalized account of the expedition is found in Beryl Bainbridge's novel The Birthday Boys.
DAILY DOUBLE #2
SCARY MOVIES
Bram Stoker's widow got a court order to have this 1922 German silent classic destroyed--but it survived, as vampires do
***NOSFERATU***
Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula was adapted into the 1922 silent movie Nosferatu. It was subtitled “A Symphony of Horror” and was directed by F(riedrich) W(ilhelm) Murnau. The movie starred Max Schreck (Christopher Walken's character in Batman Returns was named for him) as the vampire Count Orlok. A famous scene from the movie depicts Count Orlok ascending a staircase (pictured below). Werner Herzog's 1979 remake, titled Nosferatu the Vampyre, starred Klaus Kinski. Other movies directed by Murnau include:
Der Januskopf (1920) - lost movie that starred Conrad Veidt and Bela Lugosi and was an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Last Laugh (1924) - containing just one intertitle, it starred Emil Jannings (who later became the first man to win the Oscar for Best Actor) as a hotel doorman who gets demoted to washroom attendant due to his old age; improbably, the doorman inherits a fortune, returns to the hotel in glory, and dines with his loyal friends
Sunrise (1927) - Murnau’s first Hollywood movie, it centers on a woman from the city who seduces a farmer in the hopes that he will murder his wife and join her in the city; the movie won Best Unique and Artistic Picture at the very first Oscars
DAILY DOUBLE #3
"IN" THE RIGHT PLACE
This European city had the good fortune to host the Olympics twice--in 1964 & in 1976
***INNSBRUCK***
Innsbruck is a city in western Austria that is the capital of the state of Tirol (or Tyrol). Its name means “Bridge over the Inn River” (the Inn is a tributary of the Danube). It is near the Brenner Pass, which is a pass through the Alps. Innsbruck has hosted the Winter Olympics twice (1964 and 1976). Denver was originally chosen to host in 1976, but Colorado voters rejected funding it. The only other places that have twice hosted the Winter Olympics are Lake Placid, NY (1932 and 1980) and St. Moritz, Switzerland (1928 and 1948).
A big winner at the 1964 Winter Olympics was Soviet speed skater Lidiya Skoblikova, who won four gold medals (500, 1000, 1500, and 3000 meters). She also won two gold medals four years earlier at Squaw Valley in California for a grand total of six Olympic gold medals. She is tied for the most speed skating Olympic gold medals with the recently retired Dutch woman Ireen Wüst (pictured below), who won at least one gold medal at each Winter Olympics between 2006 and 2022.
DAILY DOUBLE #4
SECOND CITIES
Bulawayo in this nation is home to State House, built by Cecil Rhodes
***ZIMBABWE***
Bulawayo [BOO-lah-WAH-yoh] is the second most populous country in Zimbabwe, whose most populous city and capital is Harare. Bulawayo has a charming name meaning "place of slaughter" in the Ndebele language. Bulawayo is the main city in the southwestern portion of Zimbabwe, which is called Matabeleland. The Bulawayo in Zimbabwe is not to be confused with a place in South Africa named Bulawayo, which was the capital of the Zulu Kingdom. State House (formerly called Government House) is a residence in Bulawayo that was built by British colonialist Cecil Rhodes.
Zimbabwe was formerly named Rhodesia in honor of Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902), who is probably best known for founding the De Beers diamond company and being the namesake of the Rhodes scholarship. Zimbabwe’s capital of Harare, which was formerly named Salisbury (in honor of the British Prime Minister), was founded by a company established by Cecil Rhodes. He was the leader of a British colony in present-day South Africa called the Cape Colony from 1890-1896. He resigned after the Jameson Raid, in which Leander Starr Jameson (employed by Rhodes) invaded the South African Republic (also called the Transvaal) and failed to provoke an uprising against its ruler, Paul Kruger. On the day of his death, he said "so little done, so much to do." This quote refers to his unfulfilled dreams, such as building a railway from Cape Town to Cairo (as depicted in the cartoon The Rhodes Colossus pictured below), and even recovering the American colonies for the British Empire!
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
LITERATURE
Published in 2011, P.D. James' final novel, "Death Comes to Pemberley", was a sequel to this novel from 200 years earlier
***PRIDE AND PREJUDICE***
Pride and Prejudice (1813) is a novel by Jane Austen that was initially titled First Impressions. The novel opens “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” The novel centers on the relationship between Fitzwilliam Darcy, who owns the estate Pemberley, and Elizabeth Bennet, whose four sisters (Jane, Mary, Lydia, and Kitty) are also all single. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a parody novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, who also wrote Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. The parody novel opens "It is a truth universally recognized that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." Screen adaptations of the OG P&P include:
1940 movie - screenplay co-written by Aldous Huxley and starring Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson (who was nominated seven times for Best Actress, the fourth most all time, behind Meryl Streep, Katherine Hepburn, and Bette Davis)
1995 TV series - starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle (pictured below), the latter of whom has won two Tony Awards, both of which came in works originally written by Tom Stoppard (The Real Thing and The Coast of Utopia)
2005 movie - directed by Joseph Wright and starring Matthew Macfadyen and Keira Knightley (both of whom also appeared in Wright’s 2012 adaptation of Anna Karenina)
P(hyllis) D(orothy) James (1920-2014) was a British author whose final novel, Death Comes to Pemberley (2011), is set six years after Pride and Prejudice takes place and involves a murder investigation. She is also the author of the dystopian 1992 book The Children of Men, which is set in a world in which the human race has basically become infertile. The book was adapted into a 2006 movie (Children of Men) directed by Alfonso Cuarón and starring Clive Owen. She wrote 14 novels featuring the Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh [DAWL-gleesh], who first appeared in the 1962 mystery novel Cover Her Face. She also wrote two books about the young private investigator Cordelia Gray: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972) and The Skull Beneath the Skin (1982). She was a member of the House of Lords, as was fellow mystery writer Ruth Rendell.
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
WORLD WAR II
Mimi Reinhard, who never learned to type using more than 2 fingers, produced this with 1,100 names, including hers
***SCHINDLER’S LIST***
Oskar Schindler (1908-1974) was a Nazi officer who ran a factory. He initially exploited the Jews as a cheap labor source (their salaries were paid to the SS), but eventually decided to protect them. He had a list created of more than one thousand workers who he deemed essential for the Nazi war effort. Instead of being shipped to gas chambers, the people on the list were sent to a factory and manufactured munitions that were rigged to fail. Mimi Reinhard typed up the list, which had to be typed up again and again since names kept being added to it. Mimi Reinhard, who was named for the heroine of Puccini’s opera La bohème, died in 2022 at the age of 107. The story of Oskar Schindler was told in the 1982 book Schindler's Ark by Australian author Thomas Keneally. The book was adapted into the 1993 movie Schindler's List, which was directed by Steven Spielberg and starred Liam Neeson as the title character.
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
THEY WROTE THE MOVIE
David Webb Peoples wrote the script for this Western with Clint Eastwood as a killer-turned-farmer-turned-killer
***UNFORGIVEN***
Unforgiven is a 1992 movie directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. The movie is set in the 1880s and stars Eastwood as the former outlaw William Munny and Morgan Freeman as his former partner Ned Logan. They team up with the Schofield Kid to collect the one thousand dollar bounty on two cowboys who were involved in mutilating a prostitute. They travel to Big Whiskey, Wyoming, whose sheriff is the corrupt Little Bill Daggett (played by Gene Hackman, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor). Unforgiven is one of only three westerns to have won the Oscar for Best Picture. The other two movies are Cimarron (1931) and Dances with Wolves (1990). Eastwood won Best Director for Unforgiven and later won the award for directing Million Dollar Baby (2004), which also won Best Picture. The movie was dedicated to Eastwood’s mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel, the latter of whom directed Dirty Harry (1971). The movie’s screenwriter was David Webb Peoples, who also wrote the scripts for Blade Runner (1982) and 12 Monkeys (1995). Joel Cox, a longtime Eastwood collaborator, won the Oscar for Best Film Editing. Unforgiven is not to be confused with the 1960 movie The Unforgiven, a Western that starred Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn.
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
TV CHARACTER FIRST NAMES
"Eastbound & Down": rocket-armed, mullet-haired Mr. Powers
***KENNY***
Kenny Powers (played by Danny McBride) is the main character on the HBO show Eastbound & Down (2009-2013), which is about a former star baseball pitcher who has a career downturn, goes broke, returns home to North Carolina, and teaches PE at his old middle school. McBride also starred on the HBO show Vice Principals (2016-2017) with Walton Goggins. Their characters team up to take down a school's new principal. McBride created the HBO show The Righteous Gemstones (2019-present), on which he plays a member of a famous televangelist family. The show co-stars John Goodman and Adam DeVine.
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
DWIGHT EISENHOWER
Opened in 2020, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial is the first public work in Washington, D.C. by this renowned American architect
***FRANK GEHRY***
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial honors the 34th U.S. President, who had previously served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in World War II. The memorial includes three statues of Eisenhower. The first depicts him as a young boy who was raised in Abilene, Kansas. The second statue depicts him as a general addressing soldiers shortly before the Normandy landings on D-Day (June 6, 1944). The third statue depicts him as president, flanked by civilian and military advisors. The memorial also includes a stainless-steel tapestry (450 feet long and 60 feet tall) that depicts the Pointe du Hoc promontory of Normandy's coastline. The memorial includes several inscriptions, including one from his farewell address, in which he warned "we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.”
The memorial was designed by Canadian-born American architect Frank Gehry. Many of his other works feature curved/undulating stainless steel. One of his most famous works is the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain. Some of his other famous works include:
Binoculars Building - Venice, California building now owned by Google and so named because its centerpiece is the artwork Giant Binoculars, designed by Claes Oldenburg and his wife Coosje van Bruggen
Dancing House - co-designed with Vlado Milunić, the Prague building is also known as Fred and Ginger and is said to resemble a pair of dancers
Experience Music Project (later renamed the Museum of Pop Culture) - Seattle attraction constructed of a steel frame wrapped in sheet metal and modeled on the shape of a smashed electric guitar
Walt Disney Concert Hall - Los Angeles attraction, pictured below, whose metal exterior had to be sanded down since drivers were being blinded by the glare
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
POP MUSIC
An outlier ballad from this British metal band was "Changes" in 1972; it was rarely performed live
***BLACK SABBATH***
Black Sabbath was a British heavy metal band known for their “relentless hard rock that deal[s] with the dark and demonic.” The band’s lead vocalist was Ozzy Osbourne, who was nicknamed the “Prince of Darkness.” The band’s other founding members included guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward, and bassist Terry “Geezer” Butler. Before hitting it big, the band was known as The Polka Tulk Blues Band. The band was ultimately named for a 1963 horror movie starring Boris Karloff. Black Sabbath’s most famous songs include “Paranoid” (their first single that charted), “Iron Man” (famous for its guitar riff), and “War Pigs” (anti-war song featuring the lyrics “In the fields, the bodies burning / As the war machine keeps turning”). Those three songs are on their 1970 album Paranoid.
Black Sabbath also recorded the 1972 ballad “Changes,” which was inspired by Bill Ward's breakup with his first wife. 31 years later, Ozzy recorded a duet of the song with his daughter Kelly. The song went #1 in the UK. It was the second time that a father-daughter duet topped the charts in the UK (the first time was a version of "Somethin' Stupid" with Frank Sinatra and his daughter Nancy). A soul cover of "Changes" was recorded by Charles Bradley and is used as the theme song to the Netflix show Big Mouth. Ozzy Osbourne was fired from Black Sabbath in 1979 because of alcohol and drug problems. He was replaced as lead singer by Ronnie James Dio, who helped popularize the “sign of the horns” hand gesture.
