JAQR - January 7, 2024
Volcanoes, Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Los Angeles landmarks, Jewelry businesses, Michelle Obama, Jackie Robinson, and more...
Thank you for reading another issue of the Jeopardy Answer & Question Recap, or JAQR [“jacker”] for short. This recap includes clues from Jeopardy! episodes between Monday 1/1 and Friday 1/5. 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
KNOW SEA
There are 19 active volcanoes in this sea, including ones on Saba & Montserrat
DAILY DOUBLE #2
ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE
"The Winter's Tale" alternates between Sicily & this Czech region that gave us a word for an unorthodox, often arty person
DAILY DOUBLE #3
HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS
In 1899 an intl. ruling gave the oil-rich Essequibo region to Britain; now it's part of this country & some Venezuelans covet it
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
LANDMARKS
During Pope John Paul II's 1987 visit to Los Angeles, pranksters covered up this letter in a local landmark
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
HISTORIC AMERICANS
They went their separate ways in 1806 & both became territorial governors: one of Upper Louisiana, the other of Missouri
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
MOVIES BY GOOGLE SEARCH
"Cabbie weekly salary"; "Charles Palantine campaign woman name"
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
____ & ____ BUSINESS
This jeweler bears the last names of a married couple, the son of a diamond broker & the daughter of a dealer in precious stones
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
NEW JAZZ
Jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington composed the music for this Netflix documentary film about Michelle Obama
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
BLACK HISTORY YEAR
Just after World War II, Jackie Robinson integrates Major League Baseball
BONUS CLUE #1
HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS
El Pípila is the nickname of a Mexican folk hero who was said to have aided this revolutionary priest in 1810
BONUS CLUE #2
STATE CAPITALS OF INDIA
The most populous city in India, this capital of Maharashtra state is also home to the country's leading stock exchange
BONUS CLUE #3
LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS
The very long opening line of this novel includes the phrase "It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair"
BONUS CLUE #4
FAMOUS OBJECTS
Carbon-14 dating tests in 1988 said the fabric of this had been made roughly between 1260 & 1390, not much earlier
DAILY DOUBLE #1
KNOW SEA
There are 19 active volcanoes in this sea, including ones on Saba & Montserrat
***CARIBBEAN***
The Caribbean is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean. Some of its islands that are part of the Lesser Antilles include:
Saba - a special municipality of the Netherlands, it has its capital at The Bottom, and is essentially just the top of the volcano Mount Scenery
Montserrat - a British Overseas Territory containing the Soufrière Hills volcano, which became active in 1995; two years later, a major eruption occurred, leading to the southern two-thirds of the island (including its capital of Plymouth) becoming an uninhabited exclusion zone (pictured below)
Martinique - overseas department of France where the eruption of Mount Pelée [puh-LAY] destroyed the town of Saint-Pierre in 1902, resulting in about 30,000 deaths (Ludger Sylbaris was one of the very few survivors, thanks to his sturdy jail cell)
DAILY DOUBLE #2
ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE
"The Winter's Tale" alternates between Sicily & this Czech region that gave us a word for an unorthodox, often arty person
***BOHEMIA***
The Winter’s Tale was one of the final plays by William Shakespeare. It centers on Leontes, who is the King of Sicily. He mistakenly believes that his old friend Polixenes, the King of Bohemia, committed adultery with his pregnant wife Hermione, whom he imprisons. Leontes wants the baby to be taken overseas and abandoned, but a shepherd in Bohemia finds and adopts the baby girl, Perdita (whose name is Latin for “lost”). Leontes eventually realizes the errors of his ways after his wife is reported dead. Act IV of the play is set 16 years later. Perdita eventually returns home to Sicily and is reunited with Leontes. They go to view a supposed statue of Hermione and it comes to life. Leontes and Hermione reconcile, and all is forgiven.
The Winter’s Tale was based on Robert Greene’s pastoral romance Pandosto: The Triumph of Time, which ends with the title character (who corresponds to Leontes) killing himself. The Winter’s Tale mentions both a seacoast and a desert in landlocked Bohemia, neither of which existed (Bohemia corresponds to the western part of the Czech Republic). A famous stage direction from The Winter’s Tale is “Exit, pursued by a bear,” which refers to Antigonus, the man who was ordered to abandon the baby Perdita. To watch a three-hour performance of the play, click below:
DAILY DOUBLE #3
HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS
In 1899 an intl. ruling gave the oil-rich Essequibo region to Britain; now it's part of this country & some Venezuelans covet it
***GUYANA***