JAQR - June 22, 2025
Saturn's moons, B vitamins, Bobby Fischer, James Beard Award winners, African capitals, U.S. national parks, 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 6/16 and Friday 6/20. The recap includes some Daily Doubles, Triple Stumpers, and Final Jeopardy clues. There’s also questions about material from last week and Bonus Clues about long ago covered topics. 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.
DAILY DOUBLE #1
THE SPACE BETWEEN US
A spacecraft sent to study Saturn is named for this Italian-born astronomer who discovered 4 of Saturn's moons
DAILY DOUBLE #2
2-WORD RESPONSES
Pregnant ladies know this other term for vitamin B9
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
EARLY BLOOMERS
Once the youngest chess grandmaster in history at 15, Bobby Fischer later gave up U.S. citizenship & died a citizen of this country
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
TIGERS BY THE TALE
Before he wrote of Walter Mitty, he wrote about "The Tiger Who Would Be King", another character with big dreams
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
LESSER-KNOWN BLACK AMERICANS
The 1st Black James Beard Award "Best Chef", Patrick Clark was executive chef at this D.C. hotel with a presidential family in its name
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
MILES AWAY
The site of recent warfare, Goma in the Congo is 60 miles from Kigali, the capital of this country
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
THE 1960s
Following the Baptist Church bombing in 1963, MLK telegrammed him that the blood of 4 girls "is on your hands"
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
U.S. NATIONAL PARKS
Much of this 73-square-mile National Park is located beneath the Chihuahuan Desert
LAST WEEK RECAP #1
What private detective is hired by General Sternwood to handle a blackmail case at the beginning of the 1939 novel The Big Sleep?
LAST WEEK RECAP #2
What first move in Baz Luhrmann's Red Curtain Trilogy was followed by Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Moulin Rouge! (2001)?
BONUS CLUE #1
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
The Society Islands are one of 5 groups that make up this Pacific Ocean territory of a European country
BONUS CLUE #2
TIGERS BY THE TALE
This villain's name in an 1894 book suggests he is chief among tigers
BONUS CLUE #3
SLOW SONGS
"Slower" was a 2021 single by this Canadian singer of "Sports Car" (which is most definitely not about taking things slow)
DAILY DOUBLE #1
THE SPACE BETWEEN US
A spacecraft sent to study Saturn is named for this Italian-born astronomer who discovered 4 of Saturn's moons
***GIAN DOMENICO CASSINI***
Gian (short for Giovanni) Domenico Cassini was born in 1625 near Genoa. In 1669, he was invited to France by King Louis XIV. In 1675, he discovered the Cassini Division, which is the 3,000-mile gap between the A and B rings of Saturn. He is the namesake of the Cassini space probe, which was launched in 1997 and made 294 orbits of Saturn in 13 years (between 2004 and 2017). The probe took many pictures of Saturn’s hexagonal cloud pattern, which is located near the north pole and recently changed colors from blue to gold. Gian Domenico Cassini is not to be confused with Oleg Cassini, who is best known for designing clothes for Jackie Kennedy and was nicknamed the “Secretary of Style.”
The four moons of Saturn that Cassini discovered were:
Iapetus (1671) - third-largest moon of Saturn, it is partly covered by a dark region called Cassini Regio; the moon was named for a Titan who was the father of Atlas and Prometheus
Rhea (1672) - second-largest moon of Saturn; the moon was named for a Titaness whose children include Poseidon, Zeus, and Hades
Tethys (1684) - fifth-largest moon of Saturn, it has the lowest density (0.98) of any moon in the Solar System; the moon was named for a Titaness who was married to Oceanus
Dione (1684) - fourth-largest moon of Saturn; the moon was named for a Titaness who, according to Homer, was the mother of Athens (although other sources, such as Hesiod, say Athena was born from the foam produced by Uranus's genitals)
DAILY DOUBLE #2
2-WORD RESPONSES
Pregnant ladies know this other term for vitamin B9
***FOLIC ACID***
There are eight B vitamins. Along with pyridoxine (B6), there is:
Thiamine (B1): a deficiency of it is called beriberi, which can be caused by a person eating white rice as their main food
Riboflavin (B2): important in the formation of the coenzymes FMN (flavin mononucleotide) and FAD (flavin adenine dinucleotide)
Niacin (B3): a deficiency of it is called pellagra, which can be caused by a person eating corn as their main food; the process of nixtamalization increases the amount of B3 that can be absorbed by the body
Pantothenic Acid (B5): needed for the synthesis of coenzyme A (CoA), which is often linked to an acetyl group and is a very common thioester
Biotin (B7): also called vitamin H, it is known for binding strongly to avidin (a protein found in egg whites)
Folic acid (B9): also known as folate, it is prevalent in leafy greens and is important for pregnant women to take to prevent fetal neural tube defects (e.g. spina bifida)
Cobalamin (B12): intrinsic factor is needed for its absorption, and a deficiency of it can cause megaloblastic and/or pernicious anemia; it contains a cobalt ion in its center
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
EARLY BLOOMERS
Once the youngest chess grandmaster in history at 15, Bobby Fischer later gave up U.S. citizenship & died a citizen of this country