JAQR - January 13, 2023
Jeopardy! Pavlovs, 1984 Winter Olympics, Richard Osman, and an ex-Beatle deep dive...
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 1/9 - Friday 1/13) of Jeopardy! episodes. It will include some Daily Doubles and Triple Stumpers (no triple stumpers from Thursday’s episode though, cuz there weren’t any!). 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.
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DAILY DOUBLE #1
BUILDINGS & BRIDGES
In Rome, the building called this is an ancient but active church; the one in Paris is a mausoleum
DAILY DOUBLE #2
ON THE SCIENTIST'S RÉSUMÉ
1927: Italy's first professor of theoretical physics
DAILY DOUBLE #3
THAT'S SO LAST CENTURY
When this city hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics, it was still part of Yugoslavia
DAILY DOUBLE #4
SAVE ROOM FOR DESERT
The Makgadikgadi Depression is a low point of this desert that makes up much of Botswana
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
SOLVE THE MYSTERY TITLE
Richard Osman's heartwarming mystery featuring 4 elderly sleuths: "The" this "Murder Club"
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
SPORTS TROPHIES
Given out on Memorial Day weekend, the Borg-Warner Trophy goes to the winner of this race
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
QUESTIONABLE BOOK TITLES
Originally self-published in 1970, this guide for job-hunters & career-changers has sold more than 10 million copies
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
I SAID DANCE!
That's Natalie Portman in the video for "Dance Tonight" from this ex-Beatle's album "Memory Almost Full"
DAILY DOUBLE #1
BUILDINGS & BRIDGES
In Rome, the building called this is an ancient but active church; the one in Paris is a mausoleum
***PANTHEON***
The writer Voltaire, the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the scientist Marie Curie are some of the very famous people interred in the Panthéon in Paris. Some other people interred in or commemorated by the Panthéon include:
(Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de) Mirabeau - one of the leaders of the French Revolution; in 1791 he was the first person interred in the Panthéon, but his remains were moved three years later when his secret dealings with King Louis XVI were discovered
Simone Veil - Holocaust survivor and former Minister of Health who is the namesake of the 1975 act that decriminalized abortion in France
Josephine Baker - in 2021 she was the first Black woman commemorated by the Panthéon (her body remains in Monaco); she was an American-born French dancer who was famous for performing her "Danse Sauvage" in a banana skirt (see below) and later served in the French Resistance during World War II
DAILY DOUBLE #2
ON THE SCIENTIST'S RÉSUMÉ
1927: Italy's first professor of theoretical physics
***ENRICO FERMI***
Enrico Fermi (pictured below) was an Italian-American physicist, which is definitely a Jeopardy! Pavlov (in other words, if the clue refers to an “Italian-American physicist,” you should almost always say Fermi). He helped create the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction and is the namesake of the element fermium (Fm), which is number 100 on the periodic table. He is also the namesake of a type of particle with half-integer spin (called a fermion) and an accelerator laboratory in Illinois (called Fermilab). Sadly, there are no pictures available of Fermi in a banana skirt.
Here are some other Jeopardy! Pavlovs:
Japanese religion = Shintō - has a name meaning "the way of the kami" (or “the way of the gods”); Amaterasu is the Shinto sun goddess and is an ancestor of Japan’s imperial family; torii [TOR-ee] are gateways that separate the sacred and secular areas of Shinto shrines
Norwegian artist = Edvard Munch [moonk] (1863-1944) - Expressionist best known for painting The Scream, in which a bald man on a rail has his hands clasped over his ears, all below a blood-red sky
Polish composer = Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) - known for his piano works and a relationship with George Sand (pen name of a female author from France)
Welsh poet = Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) - author of the villanelle (nineteen line poem) "Do not go gentle into that good night” and the radio drama Under Milk Wood who died at the age of 39 in New York City, possibly from drinking 18 straight whiskies
DAILY DOUBLE #3
THAT'S SO LAST CENTURY
When this city hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics, it was still part of Yugoslavia
***SARAJEVO***
Sarajevo (now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina) hosted the Winter Olympics in February of 1984. It was the first Winter Olympics hosted by a communist country. The official mascot was a wolf named Vučko (pictured below). British ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won gold after performing to Maurice Ravel's piece Bolero. The men’s singles gold medal went to U.S. figure skater Scott Hamilton [insert obligatory USA! USA! USA! chant], who later co-founded the touring show Stars on Ice. East Germany's Katarina Witt [vit] won the ladies’ singles gold medal. Four years later in Calgary, Witt won another gold medal by defeating American skater Debi Thomas (who won bronze) in the "Battle of the Carmens" (both women danced to music from Bizet’s opera Carmen).
The other Olympic hosts from the 1980s include:
1980 Winter = Lake Placid (USA)
1980 Summer = Moscow (Russia)
1984 Summer = Los Angeles (USA)
1988 Winter = Calgary (Canada)
1988 Summer = Seoul (South Korea)
DAILY DOUBLE #4
SAVE ROOM FOR DESERT
The Makgadikgadi Depression is a low point of this desert that makes up much of Botswana
***KALAHARI***
The Kalahari Desert is mostly in the African country of Botswana (“desert in Botswana” is definitely a Jeopardy! Pavlov for Kalahari). The desert is also in eastern Namibia and northern South Africa. The Okavango River flows into the northern portion of the Kalahari, which is home to the Makgadikgadi [mah-KAH-dee-KAH-dee] salt pans. The Kalahari is also home to the Dragon's Breath Cave (named for the flow of air that escapes from the entrance), which contains the largest non-subglacial underground lake in the world. People who live in the Kalahari include the hunter-gatherer San (formerly called the Bushmen, which is now considered pejorative), many of which were resettled to establish a large game reserve. Animals that live in the Kalahari in the springbok, which is an antelope that is the nickname and symbol of South Africa's rugby team. The show Meerkat Manor was set in the Kalahari.
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
SOLVE THE MYSTERY TITLE
Richard Osman's heartwarming mystery featuring 4 elderly sleuths: "The" this "Murder Club"
***THURSDAY***
British TV personality Richard Osman is the author the 2020 crime mystery novel The Thursday Murder Club, which concerns four amateur sleuths who live at a retirement village. The book’s 2021 sequel is titled The Man Who Died Twice. Osman co-created the popular British game show Pointless, which is kind of like Family Feud, but the opposite, meaning that contestants try to give the least well-known answer. Check out a random episode below. Osman originally co-hosted the show with Alexander Armstrong, but resigned in 2022. He also hosts the quiz show Richard Osman's House of Games, which includes trivia questions, puzzles, and party games.
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
SPORTS TROPHIES
Given out on Memorial Day weekend, the Borg-Warner Trophy goes to the winner of this race
***INDIANAPOLIS 500***
The Indy 500 features 33 drivers attempting to be the fastest to travel 200 laps (500 miles total). The event is nicknamed “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.” The winner often drinks milk after the race and is awarded a trophy named for automotive supplier BorgWarner. The winners have their face sculpted on the trophy. Swedish driver Marcus Ericsson won the most recent iteration in 2022. Janet Guthrie was the first woman to race in the Indy 500, doing so in 1977. She was also the first woman to compete in the Daytona 500. Danica Patrick has been the most successful female driver at the Indy 500. She led 19 laps at the 2005 iteration and finished third overall in 2009. Four drivers have won the Indy 500 four times:
A. J. Foyt (1961, 1964, 1967, 1977) - Houston-born driver who also won Le Mans in 1967 and the Daytona 500 in 1972
Al Unser (Sr.) (1970, 1971, 1978, 1987) - Albuquerque-born driver from a family of motorsport drivers, including brothers Jerry (who died in a 1959 Indy 500 practice crash) and Bobby (3x Indy 500 winner), along with son Al Unser Jr. (2x Indy 500 winner)
Rick Mears (1979, 1984, 1988, 1991) - Wichita-born driver who won three times from the pole position
Hélio Castroneves ["castro"-NEH-vess] (2001, 2002, 2009, 2021) - São Paulo-born driver who was the first to win the Indy 500 in each of his first two tries, and the first driver since Al Unser to win consecutive Indy 500s; he is nicknamed “Spider-Man” for his fence-climbing celebrations; he won Dancing with the Stars with Julianne Hough in 2007 (pictured below)
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
QUESTIONABLE BOOK TITLES
Originally self-published in 1970, this guide for job-hunters & career-changers has sold more than 10 million copies
***WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE?***
What Color Is Your Parachute? is by Richard N. Bolles. The book covers how to network, create an impressive resume, and interview confidently. The title stems from a conversation in which some people told Bolles they were "bailing out" of a company that was going under. Bolles jokingly responded with the title question. Bolles was a Harvard physics major and Episcopal priest before he wrote the book, which was initially intended for unemployed Protestant ministers. Bolles died in 2017, but the book continues to be updated.
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
I SAID DANCE!
That's Natalie Portman in the video for "Dance Tonight" from this ex-Beatle's album "Memory Almost Full"
***PAUL MCCARTNEY***
Liverpudlian (term for a native of Liverpool) singer-songwriter Paul McCartney joined John Lennon's skiffle group (folk music with a blues/jazz flavor) The Quarrymen in 1957. The band gradually moved towards rock and roll music and achieved mild success after changing their name to The Beatles in 1960, but essentially broke up in 1969 (officially in 1970). A few months after John Lennon left the group, McCartney began working on a solo album (imaginatively titled McCartney) that was released in 1970 and contains the song "Maybe I'm Amazed.” Paul McCartney and his photographer/musician wife Linda created the album Ram, which was released in 1971 and contains the medley song "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey." That same year, they formed the band Wings, whose songs include “Live and Let Die” (the theme song to the 1973 James Bond movie of the same name), “Silly Love Songs" (from the 1976 album Wings at the Speed of Sound), and the 1977 song “Mull of Kintyre” (named for a promontory on the southern portion of Scotland's Kintyre Peninsula where the McCartneys lived). Paul and Linda’s children include Mary, who hosts a cooking show (Mary McCartney Serves It Up) on the Food Network, and the fashion designer Stella, who was creative director of Chloé from 1997-2001 before she established her own namesake fashion house.
Paul McCartney released the delightful song "Wonderful Christmastime" after Wings recorded what turned out to be their final album in 1979. Wings disbanded in 1981, and the following year, Paul released the song “Ebony and Ivory,” which featured Stevie Wonder. Michael Jackson’s 1982 album Thriller features his song with Paul titled “The Girl Is Mine.” The following year, McCartney and Jackson released the duet "Say Say Say." McCartney wrote the screenplay to and starred in the 1984 movie Give My Regards to Broad Street, in which Tracey Ullman made her motion picture debut. He wrote and sang the title song to the 1985 comedy Spies Like Us, which co-starred Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd. McCartney co-wrote Elvis Costello's 1989 song "Veronica," which was the highest-charting top 40 hit for Declan Patrick MacManus (the birth name of Elvis Costello). McCartney’s 1989 album Flowers in the Dirt includes a bonus song titled "Ou est le Soleil?" The song's only lyrics are "Ou est le soleil? Dans la tete. Travaillez," which apparently means “Where is the sun? In the head. Work.”
Paul and Linda McCartney provided their voices for a 1995 episode of The Simpsons titled "Lisa the Vegetarian" after being promised Lisa would remain a vegetarian for the rest of the show's run. In 1998, Linda McCartney died. In 2002, Paul married the model Heather Mills, who had her lower leg amputated following a 1993 traffic accident. McCartney wrote the title song of the 2001 thriller Vanilla Sky starring Penélope Cruz and Tom Cruise. McCartney performed at halftime of Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005, the year after the infamous Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake one ("Nipplegate"). Paul McCartney’s 2005 album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard (on which he plays nearly all of the instruments) opens with the song "Fine Line." Paul McCartney left EMI in 2007 to join the label Hear Music, whose parent companies are the Concord Music Group and Starbucks. The first album released on the new label was Memory Almost Full (2007), which contains the song “Dance Tonight.” The video to the song includes Natalie Portman, who plays a ghost, and Mackenzie Crook (Gareth Keenan on the British version of The Office), who plays a postman who delivers McCartney a new mandolin. McCartney and the band Nirvana (Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Pat Smear) wrote and recorded the 2012 song "Cut Me Some Slack." In 2015, McCartney released "FourFiveSeconds" with Kanye West and Rihanna. McCartney was on James Corden's "Carpool Karaoke" segment (video below) to help promote his 2018 album Egypt Station, which includes the song "Come On to Me." Throughout the years, McCartney has often played the Höfner 500/1 bass.