JAQR - January 21, 2024
Birthstones, Dinosaurs, Ken Kesey, Paul Robeson, MLB stadiums, Richard Linklater movies, 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 1/15 and Friday 1/19. The recap will include Daily Doubles, Final Jeopardy clues, 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
AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES
Would Alice Walker have called her 1982 novel something else if her February birthstone wasn't the color purple, this one?
DAILY DOUBLE #2
AUTHORS AS BOOK CHARACTERS
"Vanessa and Her Sister" by Priya Parmar refers to Vanessa Bell & this literary sibling
DAILY DOUBLE #3
U.S. STAMPS
A 1989 stamp drew criticism from paleontologists for labeling a dinosaur not Apatosaurus but this
DAILY DOUBLE #4
THE WRITER'S STRIKE
Ken Kesey's "Sometimes a Great Notion" concerns a timber strike in Wakonda--not in Africa but in this state, Kesey's home
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
ON THE STAGE
Paul Robeson said that even as this character "kills, his honor is at stake... the honor of his whole culture is involved"
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
NEW NATIONS
In September 2023 the U.S. recognized 2 new nations in free association with New Zealand: Niue & this archipelago
FINAL JEOPARDY #3
19th CENTURY AMERICA
An 1884 article calls this newly completed structure "the highest work of man" & disagrees with those who call it "a great chimney"
FINAL JEOPARDY #4
20th CENTURY HISTORY
After the Vietnam War, Vietnam got bogged down in a campaign against this leader whom it managed to overthrow in 1979
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
Major League Baseball's Cardinals play their home games at this sudsy arena
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
EXISTENTIALISM
Texas prof Robert Solomon appears in this animated Linklater film to link existentialism to a life of purpose & exuberance
DAILY DOUBLE #1
AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES
Would Alice Walker have called her 1982 novel something else if her February birthstone wasn't the color purple, this one?
***AMETHYST***
A list of birthstones and some basic facts about them:
January = garnet - named for its resemblance to the red seed of a pomegranate
February = amethyst - purple variety of quartz (pictured below)
March = aquamarine - blue-green variety of beryl named for the color of sea water
April = diamond - solid form of carbon; a 10 on the Mohs scale of hardness
May = emerald - variety of beryl colored green by traces of chromium
June = pearl - produced by mollusks and composed of calcium carbonate
July = ruby - red variety of corundum
August = peridot - yellowish-green variety of olivine
September = sapphire - typically blue variety of corundum
October = opal - form of silica known for its iridescence (play of color)
November = topaz - silicate mineral that is often dark brown or yellow
December = turquoise - bluish-green gem wrongly thought to come from Turkey
DAILY DOUBLE #2
AUTHORS AS BOOK CHARACTERS
"Vanessa and Her Sister" by Priya Parmar refers to Vanessa Bell & this literary sibling
***VIRGINIA WOOLF***
Adeline Virginia Stephen (1882-1941) was the birth name of the English writer better known as Virginia Woolf (pictured below). She is remembered for novels such as Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927). Her siblings included Vanessa (painter who married the art critic Clive Bell), Thoby (nicknamed “The Goth,” he died of typhoid fever at the age of 26 after visiting Greece), and Adrian (was one of the first British psychoanalysts, along with his wife Karin). Virginia and her sister were both members of an English artists circle called the Bloomsbury Group (named for a bohemian London neighborhood). She married Leonard Woolf, with whom she founded the publishing house Hogarth Press (named for their home in the suburbs of London, Hogarth House). She had an affair with fellow female author Vita Sackville-West, who inspired the title character of her 1928 novel Orlando. Virginia put stones in her pockets and drowned herself in the River Ouse [ooz] in 1941.
Priya Parmar's historical fiction book Vanessa and Her Sister imagines if Virginia Woolf's sister had kept a diary. A review in Harper's Bazaar described the book as “somewhere between Downton Abbey and Keeping Up with the Kardashians.” Priya Parmar's debut novel was titled Exit the Actress. It is set during the Restoration and centers on the rise of orange-seller turned actress Nell Gwyn, who becomes King Charles II’s mistress.
DAILY DOUBLE #3
U.S. STAMPS
A 1989 stamp drew criticism from paleontologists for labeling a dinosaur not Apatosaurus but this
***BRONTOSAURUS***
Some other cool dinosaurs include: