JAQR - July 28, 2024
French cities, Dickens novels, Luke Combs, Curtis Mayfield, Winter Olympics, Madonna, Elbe River, and more...
Thank you for reading another issue of the Jeopardy Answer & Question Recap, or JAQR [“jacker”] for short. This recap includes at least two clues from each Jeopardy! episode between Monday 7/22 and Friday 7/26. The recap includes Daily Doubles, a Final Jeopardy clue, and many Triple Stumpers. 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.
P.S. In the upcoming weeks we’ll be going back to review the 2024 Masters Tournament while Jeopardy! is airing reruns.
DAILY DOUBLE #1
WORLD CITIES
It's France's oldest city & its main seaport
DAILY DOUBLE #2
WORDS IN A DICKENS TITLE
Type of fund that invests in diversified securities
DAILY DOUBLE #3
RECENTLY ON BILLBOARD'S HOT 100
Luke Combs was "kissin' on a blonde in a backyard pool" let the wild rumpus start with this song, also a kids' book title
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
HISTORIC SPOTS
Known for a fabled event of 1881, it housed an auto repair shop after the disappearance of the horse & buggy
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
SONGS FROM THE MOVIE SOUNDTRACK
Curtis Mayfield's "Pusherman" & "Freddie's Dead" are cuts from the uber-cool soundtrack of this 1972 movie
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
THE ROARING '20s
This "saintly" resort town in the Alps hosted 25 countries for the 1928 Winter Olympics
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
MELLOW YELLOW (each response is a rhyming color phrase)
Steadfastly loyal, as in the title of a 1986 Madonna hit
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
MY ART IS FULL
This '80s artist opened The Pop Shop in New York City before dying far too young in 1990
TRIPLE STUMPER #5
WE CRACK OURSELVES UP
After Tim Conway's ad-lib story about Siamese elephants, Vicki Lawrence broke this show's cast with "Sure that little (bleep) is through?"
TRIPLE STUMPER #6
CANALS
When the Elbe Lateral Canal opened in 1977, it allowed ships traveling to this port to avoid passing through East Germany
BONUS CLUE #1
AMERICAN RIVERS
The Gila River makes its way from New Mexico to Arizona, meeting this other river at Yuma
DAILY DOUBLE #1
WORLD CITIES
It's France's oldest city & its main seaport
***MARSEILLE***
The port city of Marseille [mar-SAY] is the second most populous city in France. It is located in a region of southeastern France called Provence. It is on the Gulf of Lion, which is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea. During the winter, the city is subject to a dry, cold northwest wind called the mistral. The city was originally called Massalia when it was founded by the Greeks around 600 B.C.E. The first ever chamber of commerce (or chambre de commerce) was founded in the city in 1599.
A well-known commercial street in Marseille is called La Canebière (pronounced can-ah-bee-air according to Rick Steves), whose name comes from a word for “cannabis” because it was once a source of hemp. The city is home to one of the concrete housing projects designed by Le Corbusier called Unité d'habitation [oo-nee-TAY dah-bee-tah-SYOHN]. A series of bronze sculptures by Bruno Catalano called Les Voyageurs (or The Travelers) is also located in the city. The Arrival of Marie de Medici at Marseille is one of the 24 paintings in the Marie de' Medici cycle created by Peter Paul Rubens.
During the French Revolution, volunteers from Marseille marched to Paris while singing a song that was later renamed "La Marseillaise" and became France's national anthem. The Chateau d'If, where the title character of The Count of Monte Cristo is imprisoned, is located about a mile offshore from Marseille. The city's Marxist scene and queer subculture is explored in Claude McKay's novella about Black seaman titled Romance in Marseille. It was completed in 1933 but only first published in 2020 due to be too transgressive for its time.
A pair of NYPD detectives (including Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, played by Gene Hackman) attempt to intercept a large drug shipment coming from Marseille in the 1971 movie The French Connection. The city's football club, Olympique de Marseille beat AC Milan to win the UEFA Champions League in 1993. The team plays at the Stade Vélodrome, also known as the Orange Vélodrome (Orange is a French telecommunications company). The city is also the origin of the fish stew bouillabaisse [boo-ya-BES], whose name basically means “boil it, then lower the heat.”
DAILY DOUBLE #2
WORDS IN A DICKENS TITLE
Type of fund that invests in diversified securities
***MUTUAL***
Our Mutual Friend (1865) was the last completed novel by Charles Dickens. The 900+ page novel begins with the death of a rich miser. His will states that his fortune will go to his out-of-the-country son, John Harmon, but only if he marries the poor girl Bella Wilfer, whom he has never met before. John Harmon is then thought to be dead when a body is found in the Thames River. The estate then devolves to the dead miser’s only two faithful employees, Mr. and Mrs. Boffin. They take in Bella, who is determined to marry a wealthy man.
The reader eventually learns that John Harmon switched clothes with a shipmate en route to home and is still alive. He uses the alias John Rokesmith in an attempt to get to know Bella and win her over while appearing to be poor. His plan works and he reveals the truth after they marry. A minor character in the novel who dismisses any idea he does not like with a flourish of his hand is the source of the word podsnappery, meaning "an attitude toward life marked by complacency and a refusal to recognize unpleasant facts." The original title of the poem The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot was He Do the Police in Different Voices, which is a line from the novel describing a minor character who is a “beautiful reader of a newspaper.”
DAILY DOUBLE #3
RECENTLY ON BILLBOARD'S HOT 100
Luke Combs was "kissin' on a blonde in a backyard pool" let the wild rumpus start with this song, also a kids' book title
***WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE***
Country music singer Luke Combs was born in North Carolina in 1990. He is probably best known to the general public for the 2023 song “Fast Car,” which hit #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is from his album Gettin' Old. It was a cover of a 1988 song by Black singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman, who is also known for "Give Me One Reason." The cover notably didn’t change any of the lyrics, including ones like “I work in the market as a checkout girl.” In August of 2023, the top three songs on the Hot 100 were all country songs for the first time ever: Jason Aldean's “Try That in a Small Town” and Morgan Wallen's “Last Night,” along with "Fast Car."
The album Gettin' Old also contains “Where the Wild Things Are,” which shares its title with a Maurice Sendak children’s book in which the boy Max declares “let the wild rumpus start!” The song is about a figure whose older brother moves out to the West Coast, but ultimately dies in a motorcycle accident. Country music fans almost surely know his 2020 love song “Forever After All,” which set many streaming records and appears on the album What You See Ain't Always What You Get. His song “Ain't No Love in Oklahoma” appears in the 2024 movie Twisters, which stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, and Anthony Ramos.
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
HISTORIC SPOTS
Known for a fabled event of 1881, it housed an auto repair shop after the disappearance of the horse & buggy