JAQR - May 14, 2023
Children's Lit, Classic Movies, The Elements, Numerical Book Titles, Game Show Hosts, 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 5/8 and Friday 5/12. The recap will include some Daily Doubles, Final Jeopardys, 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
CHILDREN'S LIT
Though he comes from another world, not from France, this diminutive guy appeared on the 50-franc note for many years
DAILY DOUBLE #2
CLASSIC MOVIES
An Alex Trebek movie trivia favorite: Who are Janning, Hahn, Lampe & Hofstetter? (We'll add they're the German judges on this movie)
DAILY DOUBLE #3
THE ELEMENTS
The name of this metal element, also a deep blue pigment, comes from a German word for a goblin said to trouble its miners
DAILY DOUBLE #4
NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS
Known for skydiving while playing sax, aviator Hubert Julian went to fight for this African empire against Italy in the 1930s
DAILY DOUBLE #5
THIS 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADER...
...the former Nguyen Sinh Cung, took a name that means "he who enlightens"
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES
This 2007 bestselling novel takes its title from a line in the poem "Kabul" by the 17th century Persian poet Saib
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
ACTRESSES & THEIR ROLES
She made her big screen debut as a teen named Laurie in a 1978 film & in 2022 she played that role for the 7th & last time
FINAL JEOPARDY #3
HISTORY
His epitaph, in a church in England, reads, "Sometime general in the army of George Washington"
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
BURT BACHARACH
Younger musicians inspired by Burt include this Brit who collaborated with him on the album "Painted from Memory"
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
GAME SHOW HOSTS
The love of Betty White's life, he met her when she was a guest in the third week of "Password"
DAILY DOUBLE #1
CHILDREN'S LIT
Though he comes from another world, not from France, this diminutive guy appeared on the 50-franc note for many years
***THE LITTLE PRINCE***
The Little Prince (or Le Petit Prince) is a 1943 novella by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [sant-eg-zoo-pey-REE]. The author was also a pilot, and he died in a 1944 plane crash during World War II while conducting a reconnaissance mission. The fable The Little Prince is quite possibly the most translated non-religious work of all-time. The title character is from the asteroid B-612 and is in love with a vain rose. He visits Earth and meets a pilot who has crashed in the Sahara and is stranded. The prince tells the pilot about his experiences on other asteroids. They eventually meet a fox, who says "what is essential is invisible to the eye." The prince eventually returns to his asteroid to reunite with his beloved rose after he allows a poisonous snake to bite him. The novella was adapted into a 1974 musical film, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. In the movie, The Snake was played by Bob Fosse, and The Fox was played by Gene Wilder.
DAILY DOUBLE #2
CLASSIC MOVIES
An Alex Trebek movie trivia favorite: Who are Janning, Hahn, Lampe & Hofstetter? (We'll add they're the German judges on this movie)
***JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG***
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) is a three-hour film based on the Nuremberg trials of four German judges who were responsible for supporting Hitler's mandates and implementing Nazi programs. Burt Lancaster played one of the defendants. Maximilian Schell won the Oscar for Best Actor for playing a defense attorney. Spencer Tracy played the chief judge, who ultimately sentences the defendants to life in prison. It was directed by Stanley Kramer, who was known for his socially conscious films, such as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and Inherit the Wind, both of which also starred Spencer Tracy.
DAILY DOUBLE #3
THE ELEMENTS
The name of this metal element, also a deep blue pigment, comes from a German word for a goblin said to trouble its miners
***COBALT***
The element cobalt, symbolized Co, is a metal with atomic number 27. It can be used to give pottery, glass, and jewelry a blue color. Cobalt is ferromagnetic, meaning that it is an uncharged material that strongly attracts others. The other two elements that are ferromagnetic at room temperature are nickel and iron. Vitamin B12, also known as cobalamin, contains an ion of cobalt in its center. The female physicist Chien-Shiung Wu, pictured below, used cobalt-60 to show that beta particles given off by cobalt-60 had a preferred direction of emission, thus proving that parity is not conserved.
DAILY DOUBLE #4
NOTABLE BLACK AMERICANS
Known for skydiving while playing sax, aviator Hubert Julian went to fight for this African empire against Italy in the 1930s
***ETHIOPIA***
Hubert Julian (1897-1983) was nicknamed the "Black Eagle of Harlem.” In 1930, the aviator was invited by Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie to perform at a pre-coronation show. Hubert Julian, pictured below, returned to Ethiopia in the mid 1930s when Italy invaded (the Second Italo-Ethiopian War). He tried to fight for Finland against the Soviet Union in the Winter War (1939-1940), but the Soviet Union had already won the war by the time he arrived. After World War II, he became rich by becoming an arms dealer to countries such as Guatemala.
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War began when Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935 following a border incident between Ethiopia and the colony of Italian Somaliland. Italian forces took Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, in 1936, which led Ethiopia's emperor, Haile Selassie, to go into exile. During World War II, British and Ethiopian forces recaptured Addis Ababa and Haile Selassie was reinstated as emperor. Several decades earlier, Italy (led by King Umberto I) and Ethiopia (led by Emperor Menelik II) fought the First Italo-Ethiopian War in the mid 1890s after Italy tried to annex the Ethiopian province of Tigray. Thanks in part to weapons received from Russia, Ethiopia won the war after winning the decisive Battle of Adwa in 1896. Francesco Crispi resigned as Prime Minister of Italy shortly thereafter. Italy and Ethiopia fought an even earlier undeclared war in the late 1880s. It was ended by the Treaty of Wichale, which featured an ambiguous Article 17. Italy believed that the treaty stated that Ethiopia must include the Italian government when dealing with other countries.
DAILY DOUBLE #5
THIS 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADER...
...the former Nguyen Sinh Cung, took a name that means "he who enlightens"
***HO CHI MINH***
Hồ Chí Minh led North Vietnam (aka the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) from 1945 until his death in 1969. As a young man in the 1910s, he worked as a cook on a French steamer that traveled the world and worked various jobs in France. Around this time, he started using the name Nguyen Ai Quoc, or "Nguyen the Patriot." He was part of a group that at the Versailles Peace Conference (1919-1920) petitioned France to grant its subjects in Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and a tiny portion of China) equal rights. In 1924, he went to Canton (now called Guangzhou) in China and recruited Indochina exiles to form a Vietnamese nationalist movement. In 1930, he presided over the founding of the founding of the anti-colonialist Indochinese Communist Party. As a result, Hồ Chí Minh was condemned in absentia to death. At the end of World War II in 1945, commandos under Hồ Chí Minh's direction entered Hanoi, and he declared Vietnam independent. Shortly after that August Revolution, French troops arrived and took control of South Vietnam.
France lost the First Indochina War (1946-1954) following a decisive loss at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. After the war, Vietnam was divided at the 17th parallel into North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The Second Indochina War, better known as the Vietnam War, began in 1955. In 1967, Hồ Chí Minh said he “we will never agree to negotiate under the threat of bombing.” He died in 1969 and wanted to be cremated, but in order to preserve morale, his body was embalmed and encased in a mausoleum. The Vietnam War ended in 1975 and resulted in the reunification of North Vietnam and South Vietnam into the socialist country of Vietnam. He is the namesake of Ho Chi Minh City, which was formerly known as Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. He is also the namesake of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, which was used by North Vietnam forces during the Vietnam War. The trail went through eastern Laos and Cambodia before entering South Vietnam. Hồ Chí Minh was also known by the nickname Bac Ho, or Uncle Ho. The currency of Vietnam is called the đồng. Hồ Chí Minh is featured on the front of the banknotes. His birthplace in Kim Liên is featured on the back of the 500,000 đồng.
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES
This 2007 bestselling novel takes its title from a line in the poem "Kabul" by the 17th century Persian poet Saib
***A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS***
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a book by Khaled Hosseini [hoh-SAY-nee], pictured below, who was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1965. Hosseini’s debut novel was 2003's The Kite Runner. It was written by Hosseini early in the morning before going to work as a doctor. The book begins by describing the friendship between a wealthy boy named Amir, and the son of his father’s servant, Hassan, who is the title character. The boys participate in kite fighting, which involves covering kite strings in broken glass. Amir watches Hassan get physically and sexually assaulted by a sadistic bully, but fails to intervene and feels guilty. Amir and his father move to the U.S. following the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Many years later, Amir returns to Afghanistan and learns that Hassan and his wife were killed by the Taliban, and that Hassan was his half-brother. Amir tries to find Hassan’s son, Sohrab, in an orphanage. Amir adopts him and they return to the United States. A famous line from the book is "for you, a thousand times over," which is spoken by Hassan to Amir early in the novel, and then later by Amir to Sohrab.
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
ACTRESSES & THEIR ROLES
She made her big screen debut as a teen named Laurie in a 1978 film & in 2022 she played that role for the 7th & last time
***JAMIE LEE CURTIS***
The actress Jamie Lee Curtis is the daughter of Hollywood legends Tony Curtis (co-star of Some Like It Hot) and Janet Leigh (co-star of Psycho). Jamie Lee Curtis, pictured below, played the Haddonfield, Illinois babysitter Laurie Strode in the 1978 horror movie Halloween, which featured the knife-wielding antagonist Michael Myers and was directed by John Carpenter. She starred in other horror movies, such as The Fog and Prom Night, and gained a reputation as a “scream queen.” She also appeared in six other movies in the Halloween franchise, the last of which was 2022’s Halloween Ends. She is married to Christopher Guest, who has directed numerous mockumentaries, such as Best in Show. She even has a patent for a diaper that has a moisture-proof pocket for wipes. Other movies starring Jamie Lee Curtis include:
A Fish Called Wanda (1988) - she plays a woman, not a fish, named Wanda Gerschwitz who is a member of a gang of diamond thieves who double-cross one each other while trying to find stolen loot
True Lies (1994) - she plays a wife who thinks her husband, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, is a computer salesman instead of a superspy
Freaky Friday (2003) - she plays a mother who switches bodies with her daughter, played by Lindsay Lohan
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) - she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for playing IRS auditor Deirdre Beaubeirdre
FINAL JEOPARDY #3
HISTORY
His epitaph, in a church in England, reads, "Sometime general in the army of George Washington"
***BENEDICT ARNOLD***
Benedict Arnold (1741-1801) was an American military officer who defected to the British side in the middle of the Revolutionary War. He lost the Battle of Quebec in 1775 and the Battle of Valcour Island (a naval battle in Lake Champlain) in 1776. Arnold's honor was impugned in February 1777 when he was passed over for the position of major general due to his rashness and impatience on the battlefield. In the fall of 1777, his leg was badly injured at the Battle of Saratoga. In 1779, he married Peggy Shippen, who had loyalist sympathies. Arnold became increasingly disillusioned with the American cause and reached out to British headquarters. In 1780, his British contact John André was captured and found with papers hidden in his boot that were written by Arnold about turning over the fort at West Point to British forces in exchange for £20,000. John André was found guilty of spying and hanged. In 1781, Benedict Arnold led British troops to victory at the Battle of Groton Heights, which is also called the Fort Griswold massacre because British troops killed many Americans even after they had surrendered.
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
BURT BACHARACH
Younger musicians inspired by Burt include this Brit who collaborated with him on the album "Painted from Memory"
***ELVIS COSTELLO***
Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick McManus in 1954) is a British singer-songwriter. His first single, which shares its name with a Bret Easton Ellis book, was titled "Less Than Zero” and was released in 1977 on Stiff Records, which specialized in punk and new wave music. Costello was scheduled to perform that song on Saturday Night Live, but stopped playing after a few seconds and played “Radio Radio” instead. Since that song criticized the commercialization of broadcasting, Costello was banned from SNL for over a decade. "Less Than Zero” was included on Costello’s first album, 1977’s My Aim Is True, whose cover depicts Costello wearing Buddy Holly-style glasses. The album’s title comes from lyrics from its song “Allison.” The album also includes the song “(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes.” Costello’s backing band for that album was Clover, many members of which went on to form the band Huey Lewis and the News.
Costello soon had a new backing band called the Attractions, which included Steve Nieve [nye-EEV] on keyboard, Pete Thomas on drums, and Bruce Thomas on bass. Costello’s second album, titled This Year's Model, was released in 1978 and included the song "Pump It Up." Nick Lowe wrote the song "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding," which was covered by Costello and appears on his third album, 1979’s Armed Forces. That album opens with the song “Accidents Will Happen.” Costello used the name Napoleon Dynamite on his 1986 album Blood & Chocolate. His 1989 song "Veronica," which was co-written with Paul McCartney, includes the lyrics “But she used to have a carefree mind of her own / With a devilish look in her eye / Saying, you can call me anything you like / But my name is Veronica.” In 2002, Costello began touring with a new band, the Imposters, which were basically the Attractions, but a with a different bass player. Costello and T-Bone Burnett co-wrote the song "The Scarlet Tide." That song was performed by Alison Krauss, appeared in the 2003 movie Cold Mountain, and was Oscar-nominated for Best Original Song. His 2015 memoir is titled Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink. Costello is currently married to Canadian musician and singer Diana Krall, who is known for her sultry voice.
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
GAME SHOW HOSTS
The love of Betty White's life, he met her when she was a guest in the third week of "Password"
***ALLEN LUDDEN***
Allen Ludden hosted the game show Password, which aired on CBS from 1961-1967 and ABC from 1971-1975. A new version of Password debuted in 2022 and is hosted by Nope (Jordan Peele movie) co-star Keke Palmer. Before hosting Password, Allen Ludden was the original host of the TV quiz show College Bowl from 1959-1962. He was replaced by Robert Earle, who hosted from 1962-1970, including the previously discussed (3/5/23 issue) match between Agnes Scott College and Princeton University. Betty White, who died in 2021, never remarried after Ludden’s 1981 death. When asked if she would marry again, Betty White quipped "once you've had the best, who needs the rest?"