JAQR - June 9, 2024
Bodies of water, Chemical element symbols, Movies' opening lines, Seven Sisters, British places, Tennessee's 1925 Butler Act, World Series winners, James McBride, 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 Jeopardy! episode between Monday 6/3 and Friday 6/7. The recap include at least two each of Daily Doubles, Final Jeopardy clues, and 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.
DAILY DOUBLE #1
BODIES OF WATER
The Sinai Peninsula lies between 2 gulfs, the Gulf of Suez on the west & this one on the east
DAILY DOUBLE #2
BRAVING THE ELEMENTS' SYMBOLS
Alphabetically, it's the first element with a single letter as its symbol
DAILY DOUBLE #3
MOVIES' OPENING LINES
1970: "Be seated. Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country"
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
COLLEGES
Of the Seven Sisters colleges, this one located in a place of the same name is the farthest south
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
This character in a series of popular books begun in 1934 promises, "I'll stay till the wind changes"
FINAL JEOPARDY #3
BRITISH PLACES
This city owes much of its early history to a temple dedicated to Sulis Minerva & a "sacred spring" found there
FINAL JEOPARDY #4
U.S HISTORY
Challenged in a courtroom that same year, 1925's Butler Act in Tennessee outlawed this activity & wasn't repealed until 1967
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
21st CENTURY SPORTS
In 2007 this NL squad became the 1st team with 10,000 losses; in 2008 they won the World Series behind Cole Hamels & Ryan Howard
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
21st CENTURY BOOKS
The title of this 2023 James McBride novel refers to a shop run by a woman named Chona
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
HISTORIC TELEGRAMS
In 1909 he sent the message "Stars and stripes nailed to North Pole"
BONUS CLUE #1
FEELING A LITTLE ART "C"
Picasso called this Post-Impressionist known for his "Bathers" series the "father of us all"
BONUS CLUE #2
SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC
The symbol of this sign is sometimes identified as Ishtar or Persephone
BONUS CLUE #3
HARD STUFF
Rubies & sapphires are varieties of this mineral, the hardest known after diamond
DAILY DOUBLE #1
BODIES OF WATER
The Sinai Peninsula lies between 2 gulfs, the Gulf of Suez on the west & this one on the east
***GULF OF AQABA***
The Gulf of Aqaba [AH-kah-bah] is an arm of the Red Sea. Israel and Jordan have a small amount of coastline at the northern end of the gulf. Eilat [ay-LAHT], Israel and Aqaba, Jordan are port/resort cities on the gulf, which is about 15 miles wide and 110 miles long. Aqaba, Jordan is part of a “triangle of tourism” along with the red-rock desert Wadi Rum and the archaeological site of Petra. The Red Sea is connected to the Gulf of Aqaba by the Straits of Tiran, which is named for Tiran Island (ceded from Egypt to Saudi Arabia in 2017). The Six-Day War started in June of 1967 shortly after Egypt closed the straits to Israeli vessels.
DAILY DOUBLE #2
BRAVING THE ELEMENTS' SYMBOLS
Alphabetically, it's the first element with a single letter as its symbol
***BORON***
The element boron (chemical symbol B and atomic number 5) is a semimetal/metalloid. Boron is one of only two elements whose name is the same number of letters as its atomic number (the other is carbon). Those elements are two of the fourteen with single letter symbols. The other twelve are: F = Fluorine, H = Hydrogen, I = Iodine, K = Potassium, N = Nitrogen, O = Oxygen, P = Phosphorus, S = Sulfur, W = Tungsten, U = Uranium, V = Vanadium, and Y = Yttrium. The element boron was co-discovered by French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (namesake of a gas law relating pressure and temperature) and was first isolated by British chemist Humphry Davy (who also first isolated potassium, sodium, calcium, and a few other elements).
Traces of boron turn diamonds blue, which is why the Hope Diamond is blue. The compound boron nitride (formula = BN) has one variety that is thought by some to be harder than diamond. One of the strongest types of permanent magnets is made from an alloy of neodymium [NEE-oh-DIM-ee-um], iron, and boron. Twenty-mule teams (actually consisting of 18 mules and two horses) were used to transport the boron-containing compound borax (Na2 H20 B4 O17) out of Death Valley in the late 19th century. Boric acid, whose formula is B(OH)3, can be used as an insecticide, especially for cockroaches. American chemist William Lipscomb won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1976 for his studies on the structure of boranes (e.g. BH3, B2H6, B4H10). The prefixes closo-, nido-, and arachno- can be used to classify borane clusters. Japanese chemist Akira Suzuki won a share of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2010 for developing palladium-catalyzed cross couplings (reactions in which two reactant molecules are bonded together) that involve boronic acid and a halide.
DAILY DOUBLE #3
MOVIES' OPENING LINES
1970: "Be seated. Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country"
***PATTON***
Patton was a 1970 biopic in which the actor George C. Scott played the title general, George S. Patton (nicknamed “Old Blood and Guts”). Scott won the Oscar for Best Actor, but declined the award (and the earlier nomination) to protest campaigns by some of the other nominees. Francis Ford Coppola co-wrote the screenplay to Patton, which was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner (who had earlier directed 1968's Planet of the Apes). The movie co-starred Karl Malden as another general, Omar Bradley. Patton was Bradley's superior in North Africa, but their roles were reversed later on in Europe. “He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country” is the line that follows the quote in the clue. Other famous lines spoken by Patton that appear in the movie include “a pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood” and "there's only one proper way for a professional soldier to die: the last bullet of the last battle of the last war."
George S. Patton (1885-1945) finished fifth in the modern pentathlon (shooting, swimming, fencing, equestrian, and athletics) at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. During World War II, he was temporarily removed from battlefield command due to slapping two shell-shocked soldiers. After WWII was over, he oversaw the writing of a history of the war in Europe, which he likened to being an “undertaker at my own funeral.” Patton died in 1945 after getting in a car accident while on a pheasant hunting trip. He is buried in the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial. His memoir War As I Knew It was published two years later. The Patton Museum is located at Fort Knox in Kentucky. George Patton had a son named George Patton IV. They became the first father and son to command the same army division (the 2nd Armored Division, which was nicknamed “Hell on Wheels”).
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
COLLEGES
Of the Seven Sisters colleges, this one located in a place of the same name is the farthest south