JAQR - May 12, 2024
Pilots, State Mottoes, 1932 Winter Olympics, Merle Haggard, French Open, Women in Business, 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 5/6 and Friday 5/10. 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.
P.S. Big News! The pictures now include captions!
DAILY DOUBLE #1
COMBAT PILOTS
In 1944 he became one of the first to shoot down a jet fighter & 3 years later, he reached Mach 1.06
DAILY DOUBLE #2
PRONUNCIATION ADVICE
It became a Canadian province in 1949 & poet E.J. Pratt advised, accent on the last syllable, swallow the 1st D
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
FAMOUS CHARACTERS
She's introduced in an 1845 novella in which she wears a short skirt with her mantilla thrown back to show her shoulders
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
RHYME TIME: OPERA VERSION
Telling the story of a duke, a jester & the jester's daughter, it was written by poet Francesco Maria Piave
FINAL JEOPARDY #3
1980s FADS
A November 29, 1983 N.Y. Times article about these used "near-riot", "adoptable", "waiting for 8 hours" & "my life (is) in danger"
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
STATE MOTTOES
L'etoile du Nord, or "star of the north", isn't the motto of Alaska but this state that's the northernmost of the lower 48
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
TIERS
The tiered Olympic podium debuted at the 1932 Winter Games here & local speed skater Jack Shea was the first winner atop it
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
PRISONS
Merle Haggard & Charles Manson both did time in this prison that's about 15 miles north of San Francisco
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
SPORTS VENUES
As of 2023, Rafael Nadal had won 14 titles & only lost 3 times in singles at this French Open venue
TRIPLE STUMPER #5
BUSINESS NAMES
One of the most powerful women in business, Karen Lynch became C-E-O of this healthcare co. & drugstore chain in 2021
BONUS CLUE #1
COMBAT PILOTS
The Red Baron trained & flew with a unit known as the Flying this that struck fear into allied pilots
BONUS CLUE #2
KNOWN BY THEIR INITIALS
He gave Jenny Lind the nickname "The Swedish Nightingale" & risked his fortune to bring her to the U.S. for a tour
BONUS CLUE #3
PRONUNCIATION ADVICE
It doesn't take prizewinning journalism to know its first syllable sounds like a synonym for "tug"; Joseph said so
BONUS CLUE #4
HODGEPODGE
In 1898 Bayer began to bottle & market this now very illegal drug as a pain reliever & cough suppressant
DAILY DOUBLE #1
COMBAT PILOTS
In 1944 he became one of the first to shoot down a jet fighter & 3 years later, he reached Mach 1.06
***CHUCK YEAGER***
In 1947 American pilot Chuck Yeager [YAY-ger] (1923-2020) became the first person to exceed the speed of sound (Mach 1) in level flight. The feat was accomplished despite Yeager suffering from two broken ribs from drunkenly falling off a horse the previous day. The aircraft he used was the orange-colored Bell X-1 (nicknamed the Glamorous Glennis in honor of his wife), which was about 45,000 miles above Rogers Dry Lake (part of Edwards Air Force Base) in California’s Mojave Desert.
The first woman to break the sound barrier was Jacqueline “Jackie” Cochran, who did so in 1953. That same year, Yeager’s rival Scott Crossfield was the first person to reach twice the speed of sound (Mach 2). Earlier in Yeager’s life during World War II, he flew dozens of missions over Europe and shot down more than ten German aircraft. Much later in life during the Vietnam War, he commanded fighter squadrons in Southeast Asia. West Virginia's busiest airport, which serves the capital Charleston, is named for Yeager, who was born in the state. He was played by the actor/author Sam Shepard in the 1983 movie The Right Stuff, which was based on Tom Wolfe's book of the same name. Yeager compared the Mercury Seven to monkeys in the book. Wolfe attributed the common voice of many airline pilots ("a particular drawl, a particular folksiness, a particular down-home calmness") to Yeager’s speech patterns.
DAILY DOUBLE #2
PRONUNCIATION ADVICE
It became a Canadian province in 1949 & poet E.J. Pratt advised, accent on the last syllable, swallow the 1st D
***NEWFOUNDLAND***
The island of Newfoundland belongs to Canada. It contains the city of St. John’s, which is the capital of Canada’s easternmost and newest province, Newfoundland and Labrador. St. John’s, which is named for the beheaded saint, is also the name of the capital of the Caribbean island country Antigua & Barbuda. St. John’s is on the Avalon Peninsula and is the starting point (or ending point) of the ~5,000-mile Trans-Canada Highway. Newfoundland is separated from the Labrador Peninsula to the north by the Strait of Belle Isle. It is separated from Cape Breton Island to the southwest by the Cabot Strait. Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula is very close to France's overseas collectivity Saint Pierre and Miquelon. The island contains a community called Dildo, which was much discussed on the show Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Newfoundland's highest point is The Cabox, which is part of the Long Range Mountains. Its second highest point is Gros Morne, which is the namesake of one of Canada’s national parks on the island. The other Canadian national park on Newfoundland is Terra Nova. The northernmost tip of the island contains an archaeological site called L'Anse aux Meadows ("Meadows Cove"), which was a Norse village about 1,000 years ago, making it the first known European settlement in the New World. The island's town of Gander (which welcomed ~7,000 stranded airline passengers on 9/11) is the setting of the musical Come from Away. The island is also the setting of Annie Proulx's [proo’z] 1993 novel The Shipping News, in which Quoyle documents the arrival and departure of ships from a local port.
Newfoundland is Canada's fourth largest island (behind Baffin, Victoria, and Ellesmere). The Grand Banks (one of the world's richest fishing grounds) is southeast of the island. The island is the namesake of a time zone that is 3.5 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time during standard time (AKA 1.5 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time). The island shares its name with a large dog breed. A white variety of the Newfoundland dog with black patches is named for Edwin Landseer, who depicted them in many of his paintings. The Darling family in Peter Pan has a Newfoundland dog named Nana. The Lewis and Clark Expedition included a Newfoundland dog named Seaman (formerly thought to be named Scannon).
A small tribe called the Beothuk resided on the island but was decimated by Europeans after the arrival of explorer John Cabot in 1497. The Titanic sank about 400 miles southeast of the island in 1912. The first nonstop transatlantic flight was made in 1919 (eight years before Lindbergh) by British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Brown, who traveled from Newfoundland to Ireland. On the island, many older homes have, in the front, a so-called "mother-in-law door," which is an opening very high off the ground without stairs. The homes were originally built with only a back door, but the homes were subject to federal law (which requires a front door in case of a fire) after Newfoundland joined Canada, so the “mother-in-law door” was added.
