JAQR - January 5, 2025
The Go-Go's, Macbeth, Moby-Dick, David Grann, Vermont lakes, 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 12/30 and Friday 1/3. The recap includes Triple Stumpers, Final Jeopardy clues, and Daily Doubles. There’s also two questions about material from last week and several 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.
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
MOOD INDI-GO-GO
A Broadway musical featuring music of the Go-Go's includes the tunes "Vacation", "We Got The Beat" & this title one
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
SHAKESPEARE
Lady Macbeth thinks her husband is not ruthless enough, "too full of" this item not actually in the dairy case
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
WHISKEY, & KEEP 'EM COMIN'
In the 1930 film "Anna Christie", this actress says, "Gimme a whiskey, ginger ale on the side & don't be stingy, baby"
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
SCIENCE: THE _____ OF _______
4 of these discovered in the early 1600s were given the names of lovers of a mythological deity
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
19th CENTURY FICTION
In Chapter 9 of an 1851 work, a preacher in a New England port city delivers a sermon about this Old Testament prophet
DAILY DOUBLE #1
A EUROCENTRIC CATEGORY
Unter den Linden in Berlin is a tree-lined avenue running westward nearly a mile to this 5-portal monument
DAILY DOUBLE #2
NONFICTION
"King of the Osage Hills" & "For the Betterment of the Bureau" are chapters in this 2017 bestseller
DAILY DOUBLE #3
SINK, SANK, SUNK
Vermont scuba divers (a hardy lot) can explore the Water Witch, a schooner at the bottom of this lake since 1866
LAST WEEK RECAP #1
Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie designed what Singapore resort whose three towers are connected by a roof terrace?
LAST WEEK RECAP #2
Uruguayan journalist Eduardo Galeano wrote what 1971 book subtitled “Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”? Hugo Chávez gave a copy of it to Barack Obama in 2009.
BONUS CLUE #1
SCIENCE TEST
This debris-filled area with a meteorological name marks the limit of the Sun's gravitational influence
BONUS #2
TRIALS
This politician & adversary of John Scopes offered to pay Scopes' $100 fine after a 1925 trial
BONUS CLUE #3
"R" WE THERE YET?
In July 1429 a triumphant Joan of Arc stood near the French king as he was crowned in the cathedral in this city
For more about Joan of Arc, check out DD #2 from this past recap: https://jaqr.substack.com/p/jaqr-october-28-2022
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
MOOD INDI-GO-GO
A Broadway musical featuring music of the Go-Go's includes the tunes "Vacation", "We Got The Beat" & this title one
***HEAD OVER HEELS***
The all-female band The Go-Go's formed in Los Angeles in 1978, although their original name was The Misfits. The band’s first album was 1981’s Beauty and the Beat, which included the hit song “We Got the Beat.” That album’s cover featured the band members wrapped in towels and wearing face cream masks. Drew Barrymore copied that look when she inducted the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021. The band’s second album was 1982’s Vacation, whose title song includes the lyrics “Vacation, all I ever wanted / Vacation, had to get away / Vacation, meant to be spent all alone.” That album’s cover depicts the band members water-skiing in formation while wearing swimsuits and tutus.
The band’s third album was 1984’s Talk Show, whose songs include “Head over Heels.” That song shares its name with a jukebox musical featuring the music of The Go-Go's that began its short run on Broadway in 2018. The musical’s plot was based on, you guessed it, the 1593 pastoral romance The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney. The band's lead singer was Belinda Carlisle, who after the band broke up in 1985, had a solo #1 hit with 1987's "Heaven Is a Place on Earth." The band’s other members included Jane Wiedlin (guitar), Charlotte Caffey (guitar), Kathy Valentine (bass), and Gina Schock (drums).
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
SHAKESPEARE
Lady Macbeth thinks her husband is not ruthless enough, "too full of" this item not actually in the dairy case
***THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS***
Macbeth has inspired many works throughout the years:
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is a 1934 opera by Dmitri Shostakovich. Based on a novella by Nikolai Leskov, the opera centers on a woman named Katerina who poisons her father-in-law Boris and teams up with her side piece Sergei to kill her husband Zinoviy, whose body is hidden in a wine cellar. The body is eventually found, which leads Katerina and Sergei to be sent to a convict camp. In the Soviet newspaper Pravda, the opera was condemned in an editorial titled "Muddle Instead of Music."
The Voodoo Macbeth refers to a 1936 production directed by Orson Welles. The play was set in the Caribbean instead of Scotland and had an all-Black cast. The production was part of the Federal Theatre Project, which funded performances during the Great Depression.
Sleep No More was an immersive theatrical experience partly based on Macbeth. Audience members would move through various rooms at their own leisure during the work, which told “The Scottish Play” through a film noir lens. The work premiered at New York City's McKittrick Hotel in 2011 and finished literally today. The play’s title comes from a line spoken by Macbeth in Act 2: “Methought I heard a voice cry “Sleep no more! / Macbeth does murder sleep.”
The Tragedy of Macbeth was a 2021 black-and-white movie directed by Joel Coen (his first solo directorial effort). It starred Denzel Washington as the title character and Frances McDormand (Joel’s wife) as Lady Macbeth. The witches were played by Kathryn Hunter, who is credited with being the first British woman to play the title character of King Lear professionally.
For more about the actual play Macbeth (plot, famous quotes, etc) check out Final Jeopardy #2 from this past recap: https://jaqr.substack.com/p/jaqr-september-29-2024
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
WHISKEY, & KEEP 'EM COMIN'
In the 1930 film "Anna Christie", this actress says, "Gimme a whiskey, ginger ale on the side & don't be stingy, baby"
***GRETA GARBO***
The reclusive Swedish-American actress Greta Gustafsson was born in Stockholm in 1905. She was working in a department store when she was "discovered" by the director Erik Petschler, who cast her in the 1922 silent comedy Peter the Tramp. Her first major role was in 1924's The Saga of Gosta Berling (based on the debut novel of Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf, who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature). That movie was directed by Mauritz Stiller, who suggested she change her last name to Garbo and brought her (literally) to Hollywood.
Garbo starred in the 1926 movie Flesh and the Devil, which is credited with having the very first open-mouth kiss and horizontal love scene in American movie history. Near the end of the movie, her character Felicitas is attempting to stop two boyhood friends from dueling over her. Felicitas drowns on the way to stop the guys, who then make up. One of those guys was played by John Gilbert, with whom she often co-starred and was romantically linked, but never married. Garbo is believed to have been bisexual, and is often considered to be part of a group of Hollywood women who loved other women called The Sewing Circle.
Garbo made her sound film debut in 1930’s Anna Christie, which was marketed with the slogan "Garbo Talks!" The movie was adapted from a Eugene O'Neill play of the same name and is titled for a former prostitute. The play centers on Anna’s relationship with her estranged father and current love interest, both of whom work on boats. Garbo’s first line in the movie was "Gimme a whisky, ginger ale on the side, and don't be stingy, baby!"
Garbo also starred in the 1932 movie Grand Hotel, in which she played an aging ballerina named Grusinskaya. The movie’s cast also included John Barrymore (grandfather of Drew Barrymore), who plays a baron desperate for money. The baron is in Grusinskaya’s hotel room attempting to steal her jewelry when he overhears her contemplating suicide. He comes out of his hiding place, they talk, fall in love, and spend the night together. They decide to depart the Berlin hotel and travel to Vienna, but before they do so, the baron is killed after trying to steal another man’s wallet. The movie features Garbo’s most famous line “I want to be alone.”
Other movies starring Garbo include:
Queen Christina (1933) - Garbo played the title 17th-century Queen of Sweden, who is initially mistaken for a man by the Spanish envoy Antonio; they fall in love and she abdicates the throne to be with him, but then he dies in a duel
Anna Karenina (1935) - based on the Tolstoy novel and directed by Clarence Brown, who directed Garbo a total of seven times
Ninotchka (1939) - Garbo plays the title Russian special envoy, who falls in love with a Parisian dandy in the comedic farce, which was marketed with the catchphrase "Garbo Laughs!" and was directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Two-Faced Woman (1941) - rom-com bomb that was her last movie, which was followed by a 49-year retirement, mostly in New York
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
SCIENCE: THE _____ OF _______
4 of these discovered in the early 1600s were given the names of lovers of a mythological deity
***MOONS OF JUPITER***