JAQR - March 3, 2024
Canada's territories, Jane Goodall, French physicists, Art history, Feud: Capote vs. the Swans, Indian food, 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 2/26 and Friday 3/1. The recap will include Daily Doubles, Final Jeopardy clues, and Triple Stumpers. 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
WORLD CITIES
Fittingly, this capital is the Yukon headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
DAILY DOUBLE #2
WHERE IS THAT?
A research center established by Jane Goodall: a national park in Tanzania named for this stream
DAILY DOUBLE #3
SCI. ABBR.
C is short for this unit of electric charge named for a French physicist
DAILY DOUBLE #4
NAME
Born Tafari Makonnen, this emperor died in Addis Ababa in 1975
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
ART HISTORY
The Royal Academy of Arts has this man's "La Fornarina" & in the 1800s the RAA's love of him made some artists retreat to an earlier style
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
1950s POLITICS
In 1959 Bob Bartlett & Hiram Fong each won a coin flip to gain this alliterative title
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
TELEVISION
In the miniseries "Feud: Capote vs. the Swans", a top Swan is Naomi Watts as Babe, wife of this CBS honcho
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
THAT'S IN ASIA
Lake Tengiz is in this large -stan that's on the northern border of 3 other -stans
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
FOOD, FAST
This cool Indian side dish is often made with cucumber & a yogurt or curd called dahi
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
THAT'S A LONG STORY
A Nobel Prize winner, in 1962 she published "The Golden Notebook", which runs to nearly 700 masterful pages
BONUS CLUE #1
LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE
Live: Vegan? You may need to give this cobalt-containing vitamin a shot, as animal products are the main dietary source of it
DAILY DOUBLE #1
WORLD CITIES
Fittingly, this capital is the Yukon headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
***WHITEHORSE***
Canada is divided into three territories and ten provinces. The three territories are Nunavut, Yukon, and the Northwest Territories. The first of those was already covered in a previous recap (DD #1 from https://jaqr.substack.com/p/jaqr-april-2-2023), so let’s focus here on the latter two, both of which have a population of around 45,000 people.
Yukon, which removed "Territory" from its official name in 2003, is led from Whitehorse. The territory is named after the 1,980-mile Yukon River, which is the longest river in the Western Hemisphere that flows into the Pacific Ocean. In the late 1890s, Yukon was the site of the Klondike gold rush. The city of Dawson, which is located at the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers, was established to accommodate the prospectors. The gold rush inspired Robert W. Service to write the poems "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee.” The gold rush was the setting of many works by Jack London (e.g. The Call of the Wild and “To Build a Fire”). The gold rush was also the setting of the 1950s TV show Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. The territory’s flag is a green, white, and blue tricolor with its coat of arms and some fireweed in the middle. The coat of arms includes depictions of two mountains, two rivers, two gold disks, and an Alaskan Malamute dog. Yukon is home to Canada's highest mountain, Mt. Logan, which is part of the Saint Elias Mountains.
The Northwest Territories is led from Yellowknife. It is home to the two largest lakes that are completely within Canada: Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake. Yellowknife is on the north shore of Great Slave Lake, which is the deepest lake in North America. The Northwest Territories (NT) is home to Nahanni National Park Reserve, which contains the so-called Cirque of the Unclimbables (including Mt. Proboscis). Other sites in the NT include Tuktut Nogait National Park and the Ekati Diamond Mine. The flag of the NT includes two blue panels that sandwich a “Canadian pale” (a white area that takes up the middle half). The flag features part of its coat of arms, which includes a white area (representing snow and ice), a wavy blue line (the Northwest Passage), a green section (trees), a red section (tundra), gold bars, and a white fox.
DAILY DOUBLE #2
WHERE IS THAT?
A research center established by Jane Goodall: a national park in Tanzania named for this stream
***GOMBE*** [GOHM-bay]
British scientist Jane Goodall is known for studying chimpanzees. She attended Cambridge and earned a Ph.D. in ethology, which is the the study of animal behavior. Goodall is credited with making the first recorded observations of chimps eating meat. She observed a chimp she named David Greybeard using a grass stalk as a tool to extract termites from a termite hill. Goodall also made observations of chimp cannibalism and warfare. She had a research station in Gombe Stream National Park, which is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika. Goodall was mentioned in a 1987 Far Side comic strip (created by Gary Larson) that was somewhat controversial, but Goodall claimed to have loved it. She was married for ten years to Dutch photographer Hugo van Lawick. Goodall is considered one of the three Trimates, along with Dian Fossey (who studied gorillas) and Birutė Galdikas [GAL-dih-kass] (who studied orangutans). Those three women are also known as Leakey's Angels, since they were recruited by Louis Leakey to study primates.
DAILY DOUBLE #3
SCI. ABBR.
C is short for this unit of electric charge named for a French physicist