JAQR - 6/1/25
UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Nobel Prize in Literature winners, The Dream of the Blue Turtles, King Lear, Gioachino Rossini operas, Beverly Hills, 90210, Gustavus Adolphus, 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 5/26 and Friday 5/30. The recap includes a Final Jeopardy clue, lots of Triple Stumpers, and a Daily Double as well. There’s also several 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.
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES
The first 12 sites added to the list in 1978 included Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado & this site 500 miles to the north
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
GERMAN NOBEL LITERATURE LAUREATES
Nelly Sachs accepted her 1966 prize in this country, her home since she had taken refuge from Nazi Germany in 1940
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
THEIR FIRST TOP 40 SOLO ALBUM
1985: "The Dream of the Blue Turtles"
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
FIRSTS
The 2024 film "Young Woman and the Sea" is the story of this American, the first woman to swim across the English Channel
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
THE GREAT SQUALL
In a Shakespearean storm, King Lear is joined by his fool & by this character disguised as poor Tom
TRIPLE STUMPER #5
ON THE MAP
Rossini's opera "The Italian Girl in" this North African capital opens at the palace of Mustafa
TRIPLE STUMPER #6
TV SETTINGS
The "90210" kids loved their mega burgers & pie at this alliterative diner
DAILY DOUBLE #1
LEADING FROM THE FRONT
Military genius Gustavus Adolphus made Sweden a power in this war but died leading a charge at 1632 Battle of Lützen
BONUS CLUE #1
LITERARY HODGEPODGE
A painting by Dutch artist Carel Fabritius is at the heart of this 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction
BONUS CLUE #2
LITERARY HODGEPODGE
He covered crime for the "Los Angeles Times" before putting his detective Harry Bosch on the beat in L.A.
BONUS CLUE #3
CRIME FICTION
The 1951 "Bloody Christmas" beating of prisoners by Los Angeles police is dramatized in this James Ellroy novel
BONUS CLUE #4
CRIME FICTION
James M. Cain had to fight his publisher over the title of this 1934 novel, which he said referred to delayed retribution
BONUS CLUE #5
WORDS FOUND IN JUICY BY BIGGIE
Last name of wine merchant Claude; his family later went into business with the Chandons
BONUS CLUE #6
WORDS FOUND IN JUICY BY BIGGIE
Langston Hughes wondered if one of these might "stink" or "crust" or just "explode" over time
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES
The first 12 sites added to the list in 1978 included Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado & this site 500 miles to the north
***YELLOWSTONE***
Along with the Galápagos Islands and Quito (both in Ecuador), the other eight sites that were added to the list in 1978 are:
Aachen [AH-khen] Cathedral (Germany) - located in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was built between 793 and 813 and contains the Palatine Chapel, where Charlemagne was buried and where more than forty German monarchs were coronated
Gorée [go-RAY] (Senegal) - island about two miles from mainland Dakar that was the largest slave-trading center on the African coast; named for the Dutch island of Goeree, it contains a museum/memorial called the House of Slaves, which has a Door of No Return
Historic Center of Kraków (Poland) - located on the Vistula River and formerly the country’s capital, it includes the Wawel Castle (former royal residence) and is home to Jagiellonian University (founded by King Casimir III the Great in 1364)
L'Anse aux Meadows [LONCE oh meadows] (Canada) - discovered in 1960 by Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad and literally meaning “Meadows Cove,” the site is located on Newfoundland and contains the remains of an 11th-century Viking settlement, which is the earliest evidence of Europeans in North America
Nahanni National Park (Canada) - located in the Northwest Territories, it contains many deep canyons and huge waterfalls, including Virginia Falls
Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela (Ethiopia) - contains eleven churches that were carved out of rock in the 12th and 13th centuries and named for Lalibela (whose name means “the bees recognize his sovereignty” and is also known as Gebre Meskel), a king of the Zagwe dynasty who attempted to build a New Jerusalem since Saladin (a Muslim) captured Jerusalem in 1187
Simien Mountains National Park (Ethiopia) - contains the country’s highest point, Ras Dejen, and is the only place in the world home to a mountain goat called the Walia ibex
Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines (Poland) - located near Kraków, they were a source of NaCl from the 1200s to the 1990s
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
GERMAN NOBEL LITERATURE LAUREATES
Nelly Sachs accepted her 1966 prize in this country, her home since she had taken refuge from Nazi Germany in 1940
***SWEDEN***
The author Nelly Sachs was born in Berlin in 1891. With the help of Selma Lagerlöf (the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Lit), she fled to Sweden in 1940 to avoid going to a concentration camp. Her works include Eli: A Mystery Play of the Sufferings of Israel, in which the title eight-year-old boy is killed by a German soldier after he blows on his pipe to call for heaven’s help when his parents are taken away. Sachs also wrote the poem “O the Chimneys,” in which Israel’s body drifts up as smoke from Nazi concentration camps. She was friends with the Romanian-born Holocaust survivor Paul Celan, whose poem “Death Fugue” repeats the line “Black milk of daybreak we drink you come night.”
Other lesser-known winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature from the 1960s include:
Saint-John Perse (1960) - French poet born in Guadeloupe who wrote the long ten-part poem Anabase, which was translated into English by T.S. Eliot (Anabasis)
Giorgos Seferis (1963) - Greek poet probably best known for the 24-section poem “Mythistorema,” part of which was read at the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and contains the lines “I woke with this marble head in my hands / It exhausts my elbows and I don't know where to put it down / It was falling into the dream as I was coming out of the dream / So our life became one and it will be very difficult for it to separate again”
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
THEIR FIRST TOP 40 SOLO ALBUM
1985: "The Dream of the Blue Turtles"