JAQR - July 2, 2023
Ceramic artist Beatrice Wood, national anthems, Turing Award winners, airport codes, Tintin, 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 episode of Jeopardy! between Monday 6/26 and Friday 6/30. 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.
P.S. Next week will be another “Special Edition” recap quiz with questions based on previous editions of JAQR from early 2023. The recap will ask about content I wrote from the following 18 “regular” issues: 1/6, 1/13, 1/20, 1/27, 2/3, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 3/5, 4/2, 4/9, 4/16, 4/23, 4/30, 5/7, 5/14, 5/21, and 5/28.
DAILY DOUBLE #1
WAR FILMS
The title of this 1962 film starring John Wayne refers to June 6, 1944; clocking in at almost 3 hours, the title's accurate
DAILY DOUBLE #2
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS
This Irish playwright who won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature wrote in both English & French
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
20th CENTURY EVENTS
It was immediately reported, "The flames are still leaping maybe 30, 40 feet from the ground the entire 811 feet length of" this
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
19th CENTURY LITERATURE
In 1896 new spider species were named for a wolf, a panther & a snake from a work published 2 years earlier by this man
FINAL JEOPARDY #3
THE MOVIES
Centenarian ceramic artist Beatrice Wood helped inspire one of the main characters & the narrator of this film from the 1990s
FINAL JEOPARDY #4
NATIONAL ANTHEMS
The name of this country's national anthem translates as "His Majesty's Reign" & its lyrics come from a 1,000-year-old poem
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
SCIENTISTS
In 2023 Bob Metcalfe won the Turing Award for inventing this computer networking technology in the 1970s
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
GET KOALA-FIED
You can get up close & personal with the real deal at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary outside of Brisbane in this Aussie state
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
FUN WITH AIRPORT CODES
This dessert is the code of St. Pete-Clearwater International & completes its rhyming website "fly2..."
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
THE SAILOR MAN
The irascible Captain Haddock is from this Belgian's "Tintin" stories
DAILY DOUBLE #1
WAR FILMS
The title of this 1962 film starring John Wayne refers to June 6, 1944; clocking in at almost 3 hours, the title's accurate
***THE LONGEST DAY***
The Longest Day was a 1962 war movie about World War II’s Normandy Invasion (aka D-Day aka Operation Overlord). The movie’s large international cast (American, British, French, German, etc.) included John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Sean Connery, and Richard Burton. The movie was nominated for Best Picture, but lost to Lawrence of Arabia. The movie’s title comes from a line spoken by German field marshal Erwin Rommel (nicknamed the "Desert Fox"), who said “the first 24 hours of the invasion will be decisive. For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day.” The movie was directed by Hollywood legend Darryl F. Zanuck. He produced many films, such as The Jazz Singer (1927), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), and All About Eve (1950). He was also president of 20th Century Fox, which in the 1950s acquired the rights to the widescreen format called CinemaScope. The movie was based on a book of the same name by Cornelius Ryan, whose other WWII books include The Last Battle (about the Battle of Berlin) and A Bridge Too Far (about Operation Market Garden). A clip from The Longest Day seen below shows the assault on Pointe du Hoc, which is a 110-foot cliff on the northwest coast of Normandy.
DAILY DOUBLE #2
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS
This Irish playwright who won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature wrote in both English & French
***SAMUEL BECKETT***
Samuel Beckett was born in Ireland in 1906 and died in France in 1989. In between, he sometimes drove Andre the Giant to school, and wrote some absurd plays, including:
Waiting for Godot (1952) - titled En attendant Godot in French, it concerns Vladimir and Estragon, who are waiting for Godot, who never appears; the play’s only scenery is a tree, which was made of twisted wire coat hangers wrapped in tissue paper at the premiere; the play is perhaps best summarized by a line from the play: “Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!”
Endgame (1957) - titled Fin de partie in French, its characters include the master, Hamm, his servant, Clov, and Hamm's legless parents (Nagg and Nell), who are confined to garbage cans
Krapp’s Last Tape (1958) - written in English, it concerns the elderly title character, who listens to tape recordings he made in his earlier and happier years
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
20th CENTURY EVENTS
It was immediately reported, "The flames are still leaping maybe 30, 40 feet from the ground the entire 811 feet length of" this
***HINDENBURG***
The Hindenburg was a German airship that provided service across the Atlantic. It was named for a German president during the Weimar Republic, Paul von Hindenburg. Specifically, the Hindenburg was a type of rigid airship called a zeppelin, which was first designed by Ferdinand von Zeppelin. The Hindenburg could travel 80 miles per hour and could carry over a thousand passengers. Only 97 people were on board when it burst into flames and was destroyed while landing in New Jersey in 1937, resulting in 36 deaths (13 passengers, 22 crewmembers and 1 worker on the ground). The airship was supposed to be filled with helium, but was instead filled with highly flammable hydrogen due to export restrictions against Nazi Germany. The journalist Herbert Morrison covered the 63rd flight of the Hindenburg, which traveled from Frankfurt to Lakehurst, New Jersey. He described the airship “riding majestically toward us like some great feather” before it burst into flames. Morrison is best remembered for saying “Oh, the humanity” during the disaster. Led Zeppelin's first album, seen below, depicted the disaster on its cover.
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
19th CENTURY LITERATURE
In 1896 new spider species were named for a wolf, a panther & a snake from a work published 2 years earlier by this man
***RUDYARD KIPLING***
Rudyard Kipling wrote the 1894 collection of stories The Jungle Book. The collection includes the Indian boy Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by a pack of wolves led by Akela. Other characters in the work include:
Baloo (brown bear) - teaches Mowgli and wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle; has a name meaning “bear” in Hindi; performs "The Bare Necessities" in the movie version (seen below)
Bagheera (black panther) - also protects and mentors Mowgli
Shere Khan (Bengal tiger) - the collection’s villain, who is trying to defeat the wolf pack and Mowgli; served by the jackal Tabaqui; has a name meaning “tiger king”
Kaa (python) - 100-years-old and 30-feet-long, he protects Mowgli from the Bandar-log (“monkey people”) in the collection (but is an antagonist in the Disney movies)
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (mongoose) - protects an English human family in India from cobras, including Nag and Nagaina
FINAL JEOPARDY #3
THE MOVIES
Centenarian ceramic artist Beatrice Wood helped inspire one of the main characters & the narrator of this film from the 1990s
***TITANIC***
Beatrice Wood rebelled against her privileged background and went to Paris as a teenager to study art. She was nicknamed the "Mama of Dada” (Dada was an early 20th century nihilistic art movement whose randomly chosen name means "hobby-horse" in French). Wood, along with French writer Henri-Pierre Roché [rohsh] and French artist Marcel Duchamp, founded the Dada magazine titled The Blind Man. Their love triangle may have inspired Roché’s novel Jules et Jim, which was turned into a movie directed by François Truffaut [troo-FOH]. At the age of forty, Wood became interested in pottery and studied with Austrian–born ceramicists Otto and Gertrud Natzler. Her gleaming lusterware objects were sold at high-end department stores and were featured in many museum exhibitions. She wrote an autobiography titled I Shock Myself. She died in 1998 at the age of 105. The character of Rose from Titanic was partly inspired by her.
FINAL JEOPARDY #4
NATIONAL ANTHEMS
The name of this country's national anthem translates as "His Majesty's Reign" & its lyrics come from a 1,000-year-old poem
***JAPAN***
Japan’s national anthem is “Kimigayo.” The lyrics are from a type of poem called a waka that appeared in the anthology Kokin Wakashū, which dates from Japan’s Heian period (794–1185). Other national anthems possibly worth knowing include:
“Hatikvah” [hah-TIK-vah] = Israel’s national anthem (heard below), it has a name meaning “The Hope”; it shares its melody with Bedřich Smetana’s symphonic poem “Vltava” (“The Moldau”) from his collection Má vlast (My Fatherland)
“Jana Gana Mana” = India’s national anthem, it was written by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, who also wrote Bangladesh’s (“Amar Sonar Bangla”)
“La Dessalinienne" = Haiti’s national anthem, it is named for Jean-Jacques Dessalines [day-sah-leen], who was the first ruler (specifically, emperor) of an independent Haiti
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
SCIENTISTS
In 2023 Bob Metcalfe won the Turing Award for inventing this computer networking technology in the 1970s
***ETHERNET***
British computer scientist Alan Turing (pictured below) is the namesake of the Turing Award, which is known as the "Nobel Prize of Computing.” Previous winners of the award include:
John McCarthy (1971) - coined the term artificial intelligence, created the computer programming language LISP (acronym for “list processing”), and invented an automatic memory management feature called garbage collection
Frances Allen (2006) - first woman to win the award, she won for “pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of optimizing compiler techniques”
Leslie Lamport (2013) - created software used for typesetting technical documents called LaTeX [lah-tek] and devised the bakery algorithm, which is a solution to the mutual exclusion problem
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
GET KOALA-FIED
You can get up close & personal with the real deal at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary outside of Brisbane in this Aussie state
***QUEENSLAND***
The state of Queensland in northeast Australia is one of Australia’s six states. Queensland and Victoria (whose flags contain crowns) are both named for Queen Victoria. The state’s capital is Brisbane, which is near the state’s southeast corner, and will host the 2032 Summer Olympics. Brisbane is sandwiched by regions known as the Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast. Queensland is Australia’s second largest state by size, behind only Western Australia. Queensland is home to Australia's northernmost point, Cape York, which is only about 100 miles from Papua New Guinea. The state is bound to the east by the Coral Sea, which contains the Great Barrier Reef. Queensland is bordered to the south by the state of New South Wales, from which it separated in 1859. The state is bordered to the west by the Northern Territory. Australia's flag carrier, Qantas, is an acronym of Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services. Queensland is home to the more than 100-million-year-old Daintree Rainforest, which is considered the world’s oldest tropical rainforest. People from Queensland are sometimes called banana benders.
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
FUN WITH AIRPORT CODES
This dessert is the code of St. Pete-Clearwater International & completes its rhyming website "fly2..."
***PIE***
In 1914, the first ticket for air travel was sold to a fare-paying passenger by the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line. A replica of the Benoist [ben-WAH] amphibious airplane flown on the inaugural flight is displayed at PIE. The airport’s three-letter code stems from it originally being called Pinellas International. The codes for some Florida airports are pretty obvious (e.g. Miami = MIA, Jacksonville = JAX, etc), but others that are less intuitive include:
Fort Myers = RSW - short for "Regional South-West," which makes sense since it was a regional airport when it opened, and Fort Myers is in southwest Florida
Fort Walton Beach = VSP - located near the city of Valparaiso in the panhandle
Key West = EYW - U.S. airport codes can’t start with K or W (not to be confused with radio stations) or N (reserved for naval air stations)
Orlando = MCO - the airport was formerly McCoy Air Force Base
Panama City = ECP - stands for “Everyone Can Party,” appropriate for a popular spring break destination with many beaches in Northwest Florida
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
THE SAILOR MAN
The irascible Captain Haddock is from this Belgian's "Tintin" stories
***HERGÉ***
Hergé [air-zhay] is the pen name of Belgian cartoonist Georgés Remi (1907-1983). His most famous character is the teenager Tintin, who is an investigative journalist. Tintin is usually accompanied by his white dog Snowy, which is a fox terrier. Tintin made his debut in 1929 in the story Tintin in the Land of the Soviets. One of the inspirations for the character was the 15-year-old boy Palle Huld, who made a 44-day voyage around the world in 1928. Steven Spielberg directed the 2011 motion-captured animated movie The Adventures of Tintin. Jamie Bell voiced the title character, and Andy Serkis voiced the pipe-smoking Captain Archibald Haddock (knock for exclaiming “blistering barnacles!”). Nick Frost and Simon Pegg played the incompetent detectives Thomson and Thompson, who provide comic relief.
