JAQR - January 19, 2025
Leonora Carrington, national anthems, Tate McRae, state capital etymologies, lots of ballet stuff, 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 1/13 and Friday 1/17. The recap includes Daily Doubles, Final Jeopardy clues, and Triple Stumpers. There’s also questions about material from last week and Bonus Clues about topics previously covered. 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.
DAILY DOUBLE #1
ARE YOU SURREAL?
Leonora Carrington's crocodile sculpture in Mexico City was inspired by a poem a little girl recites in an 1865 novel by this man
DAILY DOUBLE #2
TOTAL DRAMA!
Characters in this 4-act play include Judge Hathorne, Giles Corey & Tituba
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
"Bilady, Bilady, Bilady", its national anthem, replaced a more militaristic one following a 1979 peace treaty
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
HISTORIC STATEMENTS
He wrote of his intent "to reserve & throw away my first fire, & I have thoughts even of reserving my second fire"
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
1980s MONSTER TRUCKS
A Camaro body? Why not? Also, why not give it the name of this Roy Scheider helicopter film? Boy, that was some heavy '80s goin' on!
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
POP CULTURE PEOPLE
2 differing Hot 100 tunes in Oct. 2024: Tate McRae's "It's OK I'm OK" & "I Am Not Okay" by this singer with a sponge cake name
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
STATE CAPITALS
French explorer Bernard de la Harpe gave what's now this capital the name "La Petite Roche" in 1722
TRIPLE STUMPER #4A, #4B, #4C, & #4D
THE JETÉ SET
Eugene Loring was the Great American Goof in the 1940 inaugural production of this company with no "American" in its name yet
Not Olga Tchikaboumskaya but Olga Lepeshinskaya danced in "The Red Poppy", a Soviet ballet about this country's revolution
Around 1960, a Riga choreography school had 2 future dance stars & film actors: Alexander "Sasha" Godunov & him, young Misha
Margot Fonteyn famously danced this title water nymph who loves a mortal
LAST WEEK RECAP #1
The country songs "Pour Me a Drink" (featuring Blake Shelton) and "Guy for That" (featuring Luke Combs) are included on what 2024 album by Post Malone?
LAST WEEK RECAP #2
English author Izaak Walton wrote a biography of John Donne and what other poet, whose collection The Temple contains "Easter Wings" and “The Altar” (both of which are in the shape of their respective subjects)?
BONUS CLUE #1
SCIENCE
Though An & Ay were available, this element used in alloys has the chemical symbol Sb, from its Latin name stibium
BONUS CLUE #2
A WILD SONG FOR YOU
Meshell Ndegeocello went to Indiana to record a cover of "Wild Night" with this guy from Seymour
BONUS CLUE #3
SPITTIN' SCIENCE FACTS
This largest moon of Jupiter is the only known moon in the solar system to have its own magnetic field
BONUS CLUE #4
BOOKS OF THE 1960s
In 1962 the New York Times said the release of this controversial book "presages a noisy fall"
DAILY DOUBLE #1
ARE YOU SURREAL?
Leonora Carrington's crocodile sculpture in Mexico City was inspired by a poem a little girl recites in an 1865 novel by this man
***LEWIS CARROLL***
The surrealist artist Leonora Carrington was born in England in 1917. At the age of 20, she was disowned by her father after running off to Paris to live with the 46-year-old artist Max Ernst. While in France, she completed the painting Self-Portrait (Inn of the Dawn Horse), which includes a prancing triple-breasted hyena, a floating rocking horse, and a galloping white horse outside a window. Carrington became distraught after Ernst was interned in a Nazi prison camp. She suffered a mental breakdown, was declared “incurably insane,” and was hospitalized against her will, which she wrote about in the book Down Below.
In 1942, Carrington moved to Mexico, where she lived until she died in 2011. She became friends with the fellow female Surrealist artists Remedios Varo and Kati Horna, who both had also fled Europe due to World War II. Carrington depicted herself, Varo, and Horna (nicknamed “The Three Witches”) in the work Three Women Around the Table. Another of her famous paintings in the 1947 work The Giantess, which depicts geese flying out of the title figure’s white cape.
The bronze sculpture mentioned in the clue is titled How Doth the Little Crocodile, which depicts a group of crocodiles riding a boat-shaped crocodile. It shares its title with a poem from Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The eight-line poem ends “How cheerfully he seems to grin, / How neatly spread his claws, / And welcome little fishes in / With gently smiling jaws!” In addition to surrealist art, Carrington also created literary works. Her best-known novel is The Hearing Trumpet, was published in 1974. It centers on a deaf elderly woman who uses the title object to eavesdrop on her family, who plan to send her to a retirement home (that turns out to be magical and strange).
DAILY DOUBLE #2
TOTAL DRAMA!
Characters in this 4-act play include Judge Hathorne, Giles Corey & Tituba
***THE CRUCIBLE***
Arthur Miller wrote the 1953 play The Crucible. It is set during the Salem Witch Trials, but is an allegory for McCarthyism. Characters in the play include the girl Abigail Williams, who had an affair with the married farmer John Proctor. Abigail and some other girls were caught dancing naked in the woods with an enslaved woman named Tituba, who helped them conjure a curse against John’s wife Elizabeth. An uproar ensues after Abigail claims to have seen various townsfolk with the Devil, including Elizabeth, whose execution is spared for the time being since she is pregnant. John Proctor is eventually accused too, declares “God is dead,” and is sent to be hanged.
Another notable character in the play is Giles Corey. He is arrested for not revealing his source after stating another man forced his daughter to accuse someone. Giles is tortured to death by pressing (large stones were put on his chest). His iconic final words were "more weight." Guadeloupe-born author Maryse Condé is the author of the 1986 novel I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem, which chronicles the life of the Barbadian title character. The Crucible was adapted into a 1996 movie in which Daniel Day-Lewis played John Proctor and Winona Ryder played Abigail Williams. The most recent Broadway revival of the play was in 2016 and starred Ben Whishaw and Saoirse Ronan. It was directed by Ivo van Hove and featured music composed by Philip Glass.
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
"Bilady, Bilady, Bilady", its national anthem, replaced a more militaristic one following a 1979 peace treaty
***EGYPT***
Egypt's national anthem is often known by its first line, which is "Bilady, Bilady, Bilady" and means "My Homeland, My Homeland, My Homeland." It was adapted as the national anthem in 1979, the year Egypt and Israel (led by Sadat and Begin, respectively) signed a peace treaty following the Camp David Accords. Egypt’s previous anthem was “Walla Zaman Ya Selahy” (meaning “It's Been a Long Time, O Weapon of Mine”). It was often performed by national icon Umm Kulthum (1898-1975), whose nicknames included “The Voice of Egypt” and “Egypt's Fourth Pyramid.”
Here’s some info about some other countries and their anthems:
Burkina Faso = “Ditanyè” (also known as "Une Seule Nuit," which means “One Single Night” and is part of the first line of its chorus) - written by Thomas Sankara, who was the country's first president and also a jazz guitarist
Senegal = “Le Lion Rouge” (meaning “The Red Lion”) - written by Léopold Senghor (the country's first president and a member of the Négritude movement), its opening line is “Everyone strum your koras, strike the balafons” (a kora is a 21-string instrument similar to a lute and harp, while a balafon is a xylophone)
For more about various national anthems, check out Final Jeopardy #4 from this past recap: https://jaqr.substack.com/p/jaqr-july-2-2023
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
HISTORIC STATEMENTS
He wrote of his intent "to reserve & throw away my first fire, & I have thoughts even of reserving my second fire"