JAQR - March 9, 2025
Indiana cities, Beatrix Potter, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Rob Lowe, Randy Johnson, 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 3/3 and Friday 3/7 The recap includes Daily Doubles, Final Jeopardy clues, and Triple Stumpers. There’s also 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
AROUND THE USA
"Queen City of the Wabash", this city will literally have you on "high ground"
DAILY DOUBLE #2
ON TOUR
This 16-year-old's diary entry for Oct.18, 2006: "Oh my god I am on the Rascal Flatts tour... I'm opening up for the last nine dates"
DAILY DOUBLE #3
ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS [name the kind of animal]
Nutkin & his brother Twinkleberry
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
CABINET MEMBERS
In order of fame, the first Cabinet was Jefferson (later prez), Hamilton ("my shot" guy), Knox (of fort fame), this attorney general
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
HISTORIC SCIENTISTS
A pair of discoveries by him in 1787 are named for stage characters, a new practice in his field
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
ALL THE NON-HUMAN BOOK CHARACTERS
In the sci-fi novel "Children of Time", humans must vie with Portia & Bianca, genetically juiced "jumping" types of this arachnid
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
ADVERBS
Rob Lowe named his podcast this, like his character's catchphrase on "Parks & Recreation"
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
ALPHANUMERICS
Alphanumeric MLB pitching stats include HR/9, BB/9 & this one, an amazing career 10.6 for Randy Johnson
BONUS CLUE #1
CURRENCIES
Dinar is served in many countries including this small oil-rich one; in the '90s the Iraqi dinar briefly replaced its own dinar
BONUS CLUE #2
EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY
Connected to the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Strait of Bonifacio separates these 2 islands
BONUS CLUE #3
BRITISH ROYALTY
In the 12th c. after walking barefoot, this man stripped down & allowed himself to be flogged by dozens of monks
DAILY DOUBLE #1
AROUND THE USA
"Queen City of the Wabash", this city will literally have you on "high ground"
***TERRE HAUTE***
Terre Haute [TERR-eh HOHT] is the fifteenth most populous city in Indiana. Located in the western portion of the state, it has a French name meaning “high land.” The Wabash River flows past the city, which is home to Indiana State University (The Sycamores) and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (The Fightin' Engineers). People born in the city include Theodore Dreiser (author of Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy) and his brother Paul Dresser (composer of the song “On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away”). The city is home to a federal prison where Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was executed in 2001. The city lends its name to an Edmund White play that depicts a fictitious meeting between McVeigh and the writer Gore Vidal.
Other random cities in Indiana include:
Columbus - known for its art and architecture, including churches by both Saarinens (dad Eliel and son Eero) and Henry Moore’s sculpture Large Arch, which is located outside of a public library designed by I. M. Pei; the city lends its name to a 2017 movie that was directed by Kogonada and starred John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson
Gary - the birthplace of Michael Jackson, it is home to the steel mill Gary Works, which is operated by U.S. Steel and was formerly the world's largest; it inspired the Soviet city of Magnitogorsk, which was known as the “socialist city of steel”
DAILY DOUBLE #2
ON TOUR
This 16-year-old's diary entry for Oct.18, 2006: "Oh my god I am on the Rascal Flatts tour... I'm opening up for the last nine dates"
***TAYLOR SWIFT***
The singer-songwriter Taylor Alison Swift was born in Pennsylvania on December 13, 1989. At the age of thirteen, she moved with her parents to the Nashville area, after which she was signed by Scott Borchetta to the label Big Machine Records. In 2006, she released her first single, the country song “Tim McGraw,” whose lyrics state “When you think Tim McGraw / I hope you think my favorite song / The one we danced to all night long / The moon like a spotlight on the lake.” The song appeared on her debut self-titled album Taylor Swift, whose second single was "Teardrops on My Guitar." That song’s chorus includes the lines “He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar / The only thing that keeps me wishing on a wishing star / He's the song in the car I keep singing, don't know why I do.” She was nominated for Best New Artist at the 2008 Grammy Awards, but lost to Amy Winehouse.
DAILY DOUBLE #3
ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS [name the kind of animal]
Nutkin & his brother Twinkleberry
***SQUIRREL***
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin is a 1903 children's book by Beatrix Potter. Its title character is an impudent red squirrel. Along with his polite brother Twinkleberry and many cousins, he goes to Owl Island, which is controlled by an owl named Old Brown. Over the course of six days, the squirrels bring him presents (three dead mice, a large mole, seven minnows, six beetles, honey, and an egg) so that he will let them gather nuts. Nutkin doesn’t help acquire the presents, annoys Old Brown by asking him riddles, and doesn’t help gather nuts either. Old Brown gets annoyed at Nutkin and carries him into his house and intends to skin him. Nutkin’s tail is broke in two while escaping.
Helen Beatrix Heelis was born in England in 1866. She died in 1943 and left her home, Hill Top (located in the county of Cumbria), to the National Trust. She was played by Renée Zellweger in a 2006 biopic titled Miss Potter. Her books include:
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) - the title long-eared lagomorph enters Mr. McGregor’s garden and barely escapes; the book opens with the line “Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were—Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter”; the book was the basis of the 2018 movie Peter Rabbit and a 2021 sequel subtitled "The Runaway" that both featured James Corden as the voice of Peter
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (1904) - a sequel to the above work in which the title character joins his cousin Peter in trying to retrieve his clothes (blue jacket and brown shoes) that were previously left behind in Mr. McGregor’s garden
The Tale of Two Bad Mice (1904) - centers on the rodents Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca, who enter a dollhouse but are upset when the food is inedible, so they vandalize the dollhouse
The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle (1905) - the title character is a hedgehog washerwoman who finds the missing clothes of a girl named Lucie
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (1906) - the title frog goes fishing in the hopes of catching enough minnows to feed his friends for dinner, but instead, he pricks his fingers on a stickleback and is seized by a large trout that eventually spits him out
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (1908) - the title waterfowl seeks a place to hatch her eggs and is nearly tricked by a fox who wants to eat her, but is warned by a collie named Kep and escapes
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers (1908) - the title rat and his wife Anna Maria catch a young cat named Tom Kitten and try to turn him into a dessert called roly-poly pudding, but the cat is rescued by a terrier named John Joiner
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
CABINET MEMBERS
In order of fame, the first Cabinet was Jefferson (later prez), Hamilton ("my shot" guy), Knox (of fort fame), this attorney general