JAQR - November 10, 2024
Oscar Wilde, David Oyelowo, "Not Like Us," Elements, Nike, Inventions, 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 11/4 and Friday 11/8. The recap includes Triple Stumpers, Daily Doubles, and Final Jeopardy clues (new order this week). 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.
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
THE QUOTABLE OSCAR WILDE
A character in "A Woman of No Importance" claims, "Moderation is a fatal thing... nothing succeeds like" this
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
THE ODYSSEY
A blurb on the back of his 1999 memoir says he "jetboated up the Ganges from the ocean to the sky"
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
THINGS HAVE GONE OFF THE RAILS
In this 2012 WWII flick, David Oyelowo & crew prove they are top guns taking out an enemy train
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
I SING...
"Cartoon & Cereal" & "Not Like Us"
DAILY DOUBLE #1
SCIENCE
The 2 chemical elements bearing the names of U.S. states are tennessine & this one
DAILY DOUBLE #2
ANIMALS ON THE MAP
This city in Erie County is home to the Nickel City Opera
DAILY DOUBLE #3
MY CHERRY AMOUR
As this 1904 play opens, Mrs. Ranevsky & her daughter Anya arrive home from Paris
DAILY DOUBLE #4
SHOE BIZ
In "Shoe Dog", he wrote, "I liked that Nike was the goddess of victory. What's more important... than victory?"
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
COUNTRIES
This country has the most time zones in the world, including its territories in South America & off the coast of Africa
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
1960s INVENTIONS
Poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide was 1st intended to reinforce radial tires but the lifesaving polymer aka this would have many uses
LAST WEEK REVIEW #1
Lake Baikal in Russia is divided between Buryatia and what oblast, which in the board Risk is a territory south of Yakutsk?
LAST WEEK REVIEW #2
William Walton's Violin Concerto was commissioned and premiered by what member of “The Million Dollar Trio” who was born in Vilnius in 1901?
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
THE QUOTABLE OSCAR WILDE
A character in "A Woman of No Importance" claims, "Moderation is a fatal thing... nothing succeeds like" this
***EXCESS***
The author Oscar Wilde was born in 1854 in Dublin. As a young man, he traveled to the United States, where he supposedly told a customs agent "I have nothing to declare except my genius.” His works include the 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, in which the beautiful title character sells his soul so that the title painting (created by Basil Hallward) will age and fade instead of himself. Wilde wrote the 1892 satirical play Lady Windermere’s Fan, in which the title married woman accidentally leaves the title object in the room of an admirer, and is saved from scandal by her mother. He also wrote the 1893 play Salomé, in which the title character lusts after John the Baptist and plots his death after he spurns her. It served as the basis of a Richard Strauss opera of the same name.
Oscar Wilde wrote the 1893 play A Woman of No Importance. In the first act, the young clerk Gerald Arbuthnot is offered a position as the secretary of Lord Illingworth, who believes “nothing succeeds like excess.” In the second act, the audience learns that Gerald's mother, Mrs. Arbuthnot, is Lord Illingworth’s former lover and refused to marry her when she became pregnant. In the third act, Gerald is about to attack Lord Illingworth for trying to kiss his love interest Hester, and is only stopped when his mother reveals that Lord Illingworth is his father. In the fourth and final act, Gerald convinces Lord Illingworth to offer to marry his mother, but she refuses his offer and slaps him with a glove. The play ends with Mrs. Arbuthnot calling Lord Illingworth “a man of no importance,” which echoes the end of the first act, when he sees a letter with her handwriting and calls her the title phrase.
Other famous lines from A Woman of No Importance include Lord Illingworth’s statements “One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything” and “One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.” Perhaps the most famous line in the play is Lord Illingworth’s belief that “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy,” which is followed by a different character adding “No man does. That is his.” The character of Algernon repeats both parts in Wilde's later play The Importance of Being Earnest.
Oscar Wilde was accused of being a sodomite by John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (namesake of the rules of boxing). Wilde responded by unsuccessfully suing him for libel. Evidence from that 1895 trial led to Wilde being arrested for having sex with men. He was convicted and spent two years in jail, where he wrote a letter titled De Profundis (Latin for “from the depths”). After getting released, he wrote the 1897 poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol, which was named for where he was jailed, and discussed inhumane prison conditions. He died a few years later in France in 1900. His famous tomb in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris was created by Jacob Epstein.
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
THE ODYSSEY
A blurb on the back of his 1999 memoir says he "jetboated up the Ganges from the ocean to the sky"
***EDMUND HILLARY***
New Zealand explorer Edmund Hillary (1919-2008) was the first to reach the top of Mount Everest, doing so in 1953 with the Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay. He left behind a crucifix at the summit and wrote about the ascent in the book High Adventure. Hillary reached the South Pole in 1958 as part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which was led by British explorer Vivian Fuchs. In 1977, he led the first jetboat expedition up the Ganges River to its source in the Himalayas. Hillary is depicted on the front of New Zealand’s $5 banknote.
The front of New Zealand’s other banknotes depict:
$10 = Kate Sheppard - leader of the woman’s suffrage movement in New Zealand, which was the first country to let woman vote, doing so in 1893
$20 = Elizabeth II - was played by Helen Mirren in the 2006 movie The Queen, which depicts the royal family’s reaction to Princess Diana's death, and starred Michael Sheen as British PM Tony Blair
$50 = Āpirana Ngata - leader of the Māori community who spent nearly 40 years in Parliament (1905-1943)
$100 = Ernest Rutherford - physicist who is the namesake of an atomic model that was developed in between J. J. Thomson's plum pudding model and the Bohr model; Rutherford based his model on the results of the “gold foil experiment,” in which a very small percentage of alpha particles that were fired at gold foil were deflected back due to the very small size of the nucleus compared to the rest of the atom
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
THINGS HAVE GONE OFF THE RAILS
In this 2012 WWII flick, David Oyelowo & crew prove they are top guns taking out an enemy train