JAQR - June 4, 2023
Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, the White Cliffs of Dover, World War I aces, Dayton, Ohio, It Ends with Us, 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 regular Jeopardy! between Monday 5/29 and Friday 6/2. The recap will include some Daily Doubles, Triple Stumpers, and Final Jeopardy clues. 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
CANNERY
This author said of Monterey, "The corrugated iron of the canneries glows with the pearly lucence of platinum"
DAILY DOUBLE #2
THE OPERETTAS OF GILBERT & SULLIVAN
Despite never having been to sea, Sir Joseph Porter is "ruler of the queen's navee" in this shipshape favorite
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
LITERARY GROUPS
Windermere, Thirlmere & Grasmere are 3 of the sites that helped give a 19th century literary group this name
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
SPORTS & THE MOVIES
A Geena Davis Institute study found shortly after a 2012 franchise film's release, women's participation in this sport rose 105%
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
POP INSTRUMENTALS
This almost lyric-free 2013 hit by Brooklyn producer/DJ Baauer has part of Manhattan in its title
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
THE BAND'S SONGS TELL A STORY
TS - "One Of These Nights", I'll tell you this band did "Pretty Maids All In A Row", but "I Can't Tell You Why"
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
LANDMARKS OF GREAT BRITAIN
Facing France, the White Cliffs of Dover are along the coast of this county
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
"MAN" O' WAR (notice the “M-A-N” in quotations)
Lothar von Richthofen was a noted World War I ace; his brother, named this, was more famous
TRIPLE STUMPER #5
OHIO GEOGRAPHY
Rumored to hold UFO tech & debris in its Hangar 18, this hyphenated Air Force base is northeast of Dayton
TRIPLE STUMPER #6
WOMEN AUTHORS
She recently took the 3 top spots on the paperback trade fiction list with "It Ends with Us", "It Starts with Us" & "Heart Bones"
DAILY DOUBLE #1
CANNERY
This author said of Monterey, "The corrugated iron of the canneries glows with the pearly lucence of platinum"
***JOHN STEINBECK***
American author John Steinbeck (1902-1968), pictured below, wrote the 1945 novel Cannery Row, which is set in the the sardine cannery district of Monterey, California. The novel features many vignettes of the denizens of Cannery Row, which is called "a poem, a stink, a grating noise" in the opening sentence. The novel centers on a group of bums commonly referred to as Mack and the boys, who plan a party for the marine biology Doc at his house/lab. They get supplies for the party from Lee Chong, who runs the Heavenly Flower Grocery. Doc works late the night of the party, so he misses it, but eventually returns to his house completely trashed by the partygoers. Mac and the others feel bad, so they decide to throw another better planned party for Doc that is ultimately a great success. The novel was adapted into a 1982 movie that starred Nick Nolte as Doc. A sequel to the novel was titled Sweet Thursday, which was the basis of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Pipe Dream. The character Doc was based on Steinbeck’s friend Ed Ricketts, with whom he wrote Sea of Cortez. That book is a study of the animals of the Gulf of California, which is the body of water that separates Baja California from the Mexican mainland.
DAILY DOUBLE #2
THE OPERETTAS OF GILBERT & SULLIVAN
Despite never having been to sea, Sir Joseph Porter is "ruler of the queen's navee" in this shipshape favorite
***H.M.S. PINAFORE***
The satirical operetta H.M.S. Pinafore is subtitled "The Lass That Loved a Sailor." Its characters include the upper-class Josephine, who is the daughter of Captain Corcoran. Josephine falls for the lowly seaman Ralph Rackstraw, but is arranged to be married to Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty (based on the newsagent William Henry Smith). It is revealed by the dockside vendor Little Buttercup (who formerly practiced “baby-farming”) that Ralph Rackstraw was switched with Captain Corcoran when they were babies. The operetta ends with Josephine now able to marry Ralph.
The word pinafore refers to an apron-like sleeveless dress and is the British term for a jumper. On an episode of The Simpsons that parodies the Scorsese movie Cape Fear, Bart prevents Sideshow Bob from killing him by having him sing the entirety of H.M.S. Pinafore (video below). The operetta was created by librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan. Their other comic operas include The Pirates of Penzance (in which the Major-General refers to H.M.S. Pinafore as “infernal nonsense”) and The Mikado. Many of their works were performed at the Savoy Theatre in London.
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
LITERARY GROUPS
Windermere, Thirlmere & Grasmere are 3 of the sites that helped give a 19th century literary group this name
***LAKE POETS***
The three Lake Poets were:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - wrote the lines “Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink” in his poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” in which a sailor shoots an albatross with a cross-bow (which is considered bad luck); that poem was the first work in the first edition of the 1798 collection Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth - wrote that “Nature never did betray / The heart that loved her” in his poem “Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey,” whose final section is addressed to his sister (and “dearest Friend”) Dorothy; that poem was the final work in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads
Robert Southey [SUTH-ee] - wrote some stuff too
The ruins of Tintern Abbey are depicted as a tourist site in the painting below:
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
SPORTS & THE MOVIES
A Geena Davis Institute study found shortly after a 2012 franchise film's release, women's participation in this sport rose 105%
***ARCHERY***
The Hunger Games is the first novel in a dystopian YA series by Suzanne Collins. The second book in the series is titled Catching Fire and the third is Mockingjay. The fourth book, released in 2020, is a prequel titled The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The main character in the series (or at least the first three books) is Katniss Everdeen (played in the movies by Jennifer Lawrence), whose last name was inspired by the character Bathsheba Everdene in the Thomas Hardy novel Far From the Madding Crow. The series is set in Panem, which includes a wealthy Capitol and twelve districts (formerly thirteen). The president of Panem is Coriolanus Snow (played by Donald Sutherland), whose younger self is the protagonist of the prequel. Before writing the series, Suzanne Collins wrote for kids’ TV shows such as Clarissa Explains It All and Clifford’s Puppy Days. She also wrote a series of fantasy novels titled The Underland Chronicles.
Arguably the best female archer in the world is the South Korean woman An San, pictured below. She won three gold medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2021. One of the best female archers (and definitely the best U.S. archer) is Mackenzie Brown, who nearly beat An San in the semis and later lost the bronze medal match. She is nicknamed "Girl on Fire," although the name originates from the Alicia Keys song and not The Hunger Games.
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
POP INSTRUMENTALS
This almost lyric-free 2013 hit by Brooklyn producer/DJ Baauer has part of Manhattan in its title
***HARLEM SHAKE***
Sometimes a video is better than a paragraph:
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
THE BAND'S SONGS TELL A STORY
TS - "One Of These Nights", I'll tell you this band did "Pretty Maids All In A Row", but "I Can't Tell You Why"
***THE EAGLES***
The Eagles were Linda Ronstadt's backing band before they released their debut album in 1972. The songs "Take It Easy" (begins “Well, I'm running down the road tryin' to loosen my load / I've got seven women on my mind”) and "Witchy Woman" (chorus includes the lines “See how high she flies / Woo-hoo, witchy woman / She got the moon in her eyes”) were included on that self-titled album. The following year, they released their second album Desperado, which includes "Tequila Sunrise" (shares its title with a 1988 movie starring Michelle Pfeiffer) and the title song (shares its title with a 1995 western starring Antonio Banderas). A later album, Hotel California, was released in 1976 and depicts the pink Beverly Hills Hotel at sunset on the cover. The album’s title song is about a place that “You can check out any time you like / But you can never leave.”
The band’s biggest hits were co-written by guitarist Glenn Frey and drummer Don Henley, both of whom later pursued solo careers. Frey’s solo hits include “You Belong to the City” (appeared on the Miami Vice soundtrack) and “The Heat Is On” (appeared on the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack). Henley’s solo hits include “Dirty Laundry” (features the chorus “Kick 'em when they're up / Kick 'em when they're down”), “The Boys of Summer" (features the lyrics “I can tell you, my love for you will still be strong / After the boys of summer have gone”), and “All She Wants to Do Is Dance” (perhaps surprisingly, a commentary on the U.S. arming the Contras in Nicaragua).
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
LANDMARKS OF GREAT BRITAIN
Facing France, the White Cliffs of Dover are along the coast of this county
***KENT***
The county of Kent in southeast England is only about 20 miles from the French port city of Calais. The Channel Tunnel (or Chunnel) connects the town of Folkestone in Kent to France. The county is home to the town of Dover, which contains white cliffs made of chalk (pictured below). The county also contains the city of Canterbury, whose cathedral is where the archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered in 1170. The county is bordered to the north by the Thames estuary. Kent County can also refer to one of Delaware’s three counties (the other two are New Castle and Sussex).
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
"MAN" O' WAR (notice the “M-A-N” in quotations)
Lothar von Richthofen was a noted World War I ace; his brother, named this, was more famous
***MANFRED***
German aviator Manfred von Richthofen, perhaps better known as the "Red Baron," was a fighter pilot during World War I. He was credited with shooting down 80 enemy aircraft. He was the commander of a group of fighter squadrons nicknamed “Richthofen’s Flying Circus" (due to the way the unit was transferred via trains and also the bright colors of the aircraft). His nickname derived from his title of nobility and his red Fokker triplane (an early type of airplane with three pairs of wings, one above the other). Snoopy from the Peanuts comic is often depicted on top of his doghouse pretending to fly a Sopwith Camel (type of biplane) and battling the Red Baron. Manfred’s uncle Ferdinand von Richthofen was a geographer and geologist who coined the term "Silk Road."
TRIPLE STUMPER #5
OHIO GEOGRAPHY
Rumored to hold UFO tech & debris in its Hangar 18, this hyphenated Air Force base is northeast of Dayton
***WRIGHT-PATTERSON***
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is near Dayton, which is roughly half-way between the capital city of Columbus and Cincinnati in southwest Ohio. The base is named for the Wright brothers (Orville and Wilbur) along with Frank Stuart Patterson, who was an Army test pilot who died in a 1918 plane crash. The base is home to the National Museum of the United States Air Force. Its exhibits include Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the Fat Man atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The Bosnian War (1992-1995) was ended by the Dayton Accords, which were negotiated at the base. A variant of mahjong (sometimes called “Western classical”) is also named for the base.
TRIPLE STUMPER #6
WOMEN AUTHORS
She recently took the 3 top spots on the paperback trade fiction list with "It Ends with Us", "It Starts with Us" & "Heart Bones"
***COLLEEN HOOVER***
Colleen Hoover’s book It Ends with Us (2016) centers on the recent college graduate Lily Bloom, whose father abused her mother. Lily starts a relationship with the neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid, who abuses her. They have a baby, but eventually get divorced. She tells their daughter "it ends with us,” referring to the cycle of abuse in the family. Lily Bloom will be played by Blake Lively in the forthcoming movie adaptation. The book’s sequel, It Starts with Us, centers on Lily re-starting a relationship with her first love Atlas Corrigan while she co-parents with her jealous ex-husband Ryle.
Other best-selling authors from 2022 include:
Delia Owens - zoologist who wrote Where the Crawdads Sing, which is titled for a slang term for crayfish, and was adapted into a movie starring Daisy Edgar-Jones
James Clear - author of the self-book Atomic Habits (subtitled “An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones”) and the “3-2-1 Thursday” newsletter (includes includes 3 short ideas from the author, 2 quotes from others, and 1 question for the reader to ponder)
Taylor Jenkins Reid - author of a “famous-women quartet” that includes Daisy Jones & the Six, which was inspired by the band Fleetwood Mac, and was adapted into an Amazon miniseries starring Riley Keough (whose grandfather was Elvis Presley)
