JAQR - June 29, 2025
Volcanoes, Museums, Ecuador, the WNBA, Global music, World leaders, Michael Bolton, 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 6/23 and Friday 6/27. The recap includes a Final Jeopardy clue, Daily Doubles, and Triple Stumpers. 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.
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
20th CENTURY FIGURES
Ironic in light of her name, she was remembered in a eulogy as "the most hunted person of the modern age"
DAILY DOUBLE #1
SUNRISE, SUNSET
Mt. Bromo is famous for its otherworldly sunrises; it's one of this country's more than 50 active volcanoes, more than any other country
DAILY DOUBLE #2
NOW IT'S A MUSEUM
As its name suggests it was once an administrative office for the Medicis; now it houses Botticelli's "Birth of Venus"
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
SALUTE THE FLAG OF ECUADOR!
The river on the flag is the Guayas, which as you might imagine, runs through this largest Ecuadorian port
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
ALL KINDS OF SPORTS
The WNBA's inaugural game featured these 2 marquee teams from opposite coasts
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
GLOBAL MUSIC
A Tony Award-winning Broadway show is named for this father of afrobeat, Mr. Kuti
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
WORLD LEADERS
This dictator's full name ended with al-Tikriti, Tikrit being the city near where he was born in 1937
TRIPLE STUMPER #5
LITERAL ANSWERS TO RHETORICAL QUESTIONS [the response is a question]
Your question raises an important point, Michael Bolton--many couples find sexual intimacy impossible without emotional connection
LAST WEEK RECAP #1
What third-largest moon of Saturn (after Titan and Rhea) is partly covered by a dark region called Cassini Regio and was named for the Titan who fathered Atlas and Prometheus?
LAST WEEK RECAP #2
Intrinsic factor is needed for the absorption of what vitamin that contains a cobalt ion in its center?
BONUS CLUE #1
FOUND IN THE NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET
Topaz is the traditional birthstone of this month
BONUS CLUE #2
YELLOW
The video for this Cardi B song doesn't have that much of the color you'd expect, though there is a cheetah
BONUS CLUE #3
AROUND THE BODY
Numbering a million or more, the islets of Langerhans are found within this organ
BONUS CLUE #4
LIVING DOLLS
This 1870 comic ballet by Léo Delibes tells a tale of a man's infatuation with a lifelike mechanical doll
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
20th CENTURY FIGURES
Ironic in light of her name, she was remembered in a eulogy as "the most hunted person of the modern age"
***DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES***
Diana Frances Spencer was born in 1961 at Park House on Queen Elizabeth II’s Sandringham estate in England. She married Princes Charles (now King Charles III) in 1981 at St. Paul’s Cathedral. Her wedding dress was designed by David and Elizabeth Emanuel. In 1985, they visited the White House, where she wore the Travolta dress (named for the fact that she was wearing it when she danced with John Travolta).
Andrew Morton wrote the June 1992 biography Diana: Her True Story, which detailed her unhappy marriage. The term Squidgygate refers to the scandal that occurred in August 1992 after The Sun published telephone recordings of Diana and her lover. Charles and Diana separated later that year. Martin Bashir interviewed her in 1995 for the BBC show Panorama, during which she said "there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded," a reference to Camilla Parker Bowles.
Diana died in Paris in a 1997 car crash (along with her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, and the car’s drunk driver, Henri Paul) while being followed by paparazzi. At the funeral, Elton John performed a version of "Candle in the Wind" (originally written for Marilyn Monroe). She was played by Kristen Stewart in the 2021 movie Spencer. She was played by Emma Corrin (season 4) and Elizabeth Debicki (seasons 5 and 6) on The Crown. “Princess Diana” is the title of a 2023 song by the rapper Ice Spice that includes the lyrics “When we come out, it look like Princess Diana on the street.”
Charles and Diana had two sons:
William - born in 1982, married to Catherine Middleton, and father of George, Charlotte, and Louis
Harry - born in 1984, married to Meghan Markle, and father of Archie and Lilibet
DAILY DOUBLE #1
SUNRISE, SUNSET
Mt. Bromo is famous for its otherworldly sunrises; it's one of this country's more than 50 active volcanoes, more than any other country
***INDONESIA***
Other famous Indonesian volcanoes include:
Krakatoa - erupting in 1883 in the Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java, it was the loudest sound in history (could be heard 3,000 miles away); it killed around 36,000 people (mostly due to tsunamis); the volcano erupts in the 1947 children’s book The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois; it was the inspiration for the 1968 disaster movie Krakatoa, East of Java, whose title is geographically incorrect
Tambora - located on the island of Sumbawa (near Bali and Komodo), it erupted in 1815 and released 60 megatons of sulfur into the atmosphere, resulting in the “Year without a Summer” in 1816 (aka The Poverty Year aka Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death); it inspired Lord Byron’s poem “Darkness,” which begins “I had a dream, which was not all a dream. / The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars / Did wander darkling in the eternal space”
DAILY DOUBLE #2
NOW IT'S A MUSEUM
As its name suggests it was once an administrative office for the Medicis; now it houses Botticelli's "Birth of Venus"
***UFFIZI***
The Uffizi [oo-FEET-see] Gallery is an art museum in Florence, Italy. Back in 1559, Cosimo I de’ Medici tasked Giorgio Vasari with designing uffizi (Italian for “offices”) for the government. A few decades later, the top floor began being used to store the Medici’s art. Eventually, the whole U-shaped building became a museum that in 1769 opened to the public. The Vasari Corridor connects the museum to the nearby Palazzo Pitti (palace named for its first owner, Luca Pitti). Leonardo DiCaprio’s pregnant mom was gazing at the art in the Uffizi when she first felt him move, hence his first name. The Via dei Georgofili bombing, which was a terrorist attack carried out by the Sicilian Mafia in 1993, damaged the museum and some works inside.
In the 1770s, Johan Zoffany created a painting titled The Tribuna of the Uffizi, which depicts dozens of art works (including Titian’s Venus of Urbino) in the Tribuna room of the museum. According to the historian William Dalrymple, the artist Johan Zoffany was once shipwrecked off the Andaman Islands and had to eat a fellow sailor to survive, thus making him likely "the first and last Royal Academician to become a cannibal." Zoffany was mentioned in the “Major-General's Song” from The Pirates of Penzance: “I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies / I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes!”
Some artists and works in the Uffizi include: