JAQR - November 11, 2022
Eugene O'Neil, Spanish food, gems, and more...
Thank you for reading another issue of the Jeopardy Answer & Question Recap, or JAQR [“jacker”] for short. This recap focuses on the (Friday) November 11, 2022 episode of Jeopardy! It will include all of the Daily Doubles, Final Jeopardy, and all of the Triple Stumpers. This recap will be a bit shorter than usual due to a cancelled flight caused by Hurricane Nicole. 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, or some related info.
DAILY DOUBLE #1
THE ARTS
The title of this play by Eugene O'Neill refers in part to a pair of trees that surrounds the Cabot farmhouse
DAILY DOUBLE #2
WORLD LEADERS
After helping to establish this as an independent country, Eduard Shevardnadze became its president in 1995
DAILY DOUBLE #3
ELEGIES
1855's "Haworth Churchyard" was Matthew Arnold's tribute to these literary sisters, written soon after the last one passed
FINAL JEOPARDY
LONDON LOCALES
To fight malaria, this former royal estate helped move quinine-producing cinchona plants from South America to India
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES
This versatile & filling food is as common in El Salvador as the taco is elsewhere
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
RELIGION
It's the term for the small box & leather strap worn by the Orthodox Jewish man seen here
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
CARATS
Catherine the Great owned a 107-carat one of these gems from Colombia; a necklace with a 75-carat version sold for $4.3 mil.
DAILY DOUBLE #1
THE ARTS
The title of this play by Eugene O'Neill refers in part to a pair of trees that surrounds the Cabot farmhouse
***DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS***
Eugene O’Neill’s 1924 tragedy Desire Under the Elms centers on 25-year-old Eben Cabot, his 75-year-old father Ephraim Cabot, and Ephraim’s new wife, 35-year-old Abbie Putnam. Despite arguing about who should get Ephraim’s farm when he dies, Eben and Abbie fall in love. Abbie has a child, which Ephraim wrongly thinks is his, so he promises the farm to her. Eben is pissed, so Abbie asks him if there’s anything she can do to make Eben love her again. Abbie decides to kill the child to show her love for Eben, but he responds by calling the sheriff. When the authorities arrive, Eben falsely admits to helping her kill the child. The play ends with Eben and Abbie professing their love to each other while getting hauled off to jail.
DAILY DOUBLE #2
WORLD LEADERS
After helping to establish this as an independent country, Eduard Shevardnadze became its president in 1995.
***GEORGIA***
Eduard Shevardnadze [sheh-vard-NAHD-zeh] was the final Soviet minister of foreign affairs, serving Mikhail Gorbachev. He helped with the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan and was a proponent of both glasnost (“openness”) and perestroika (“reconstruction”). He later served as president of Georgia from 1995 to 2003, but was forced to resign during the Rose Revolution. He was succeeded as president by Mikheil Saakashvili [SAH-AH-kahsh-VEE-lee], whose time in power included a very brief war with Russia in 2008 that saw it lose control of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
DAILY DOUBLE #3
ELEGIES
1855's "Haworth Churchyard" was Matthew Arnold's tribute to these literary sisters, written soon after the last one passed
***BRONTE***
The Brontë sisters included:
Charlotte: author of Jane Eyre (about a governess who works at Thornfield Hall and falls in love with Edward Rochester, who locked away his first wife Bertha Mason in the attic)
Emily: author of Wuthering Heights (centers on Heathcliff, who seeks revenge after his love interest Catherine Earnshaw marries Edgar Linton instead)
Anne: author of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (in which Gilbert Markham falls in love with and is able to marry the title character, who goes by the alias Helen Graham, after the death of her debauched husband Arthur Huntingdon)
The famous literary Brontë sisters also had two older sisters (Maria and Elizabeth) and one brother, Branwell. The character of Arthur Huntingdon was based on Branwell, who was an artist and apparently insisted on dying standing up to prove it could be done. He created the painting of the famous Brontë sisters seen below, which originally included him, until he replaced himself with a pillar (although you can kind of still see him).
FINAL JEOPARDY
LONDON LOCALES
To fight malaria, this former royal estate helped move quinine-producing cinchona plants from South America to India
***KEW GARDENS***
Kew [“Q”] Gardens is a botanical garden on the River Thames in London. Its first official director was William Jackson Hooker. Some of its main attractions include:
The Orangery (originally used to grow citrus, it's now a restaurant)
The Great Pagoda (adorned with 80 dragons)
The Temperate House (the world's largest Victorian glasshouse, seen below)
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES
This versatile & filling food is as common in El Salvador as the taco is elsewhere
***PUPUSA***
Pupusas are corn-based tortillas often stuffed with fillings such as cheese, meat, beans and/or loroco (a vine with edible flowers). They are popular in El Salvador and Honduras, and are similar to arepas, which are popular in Colombia and Venezuela. Among the differences between the two foods are that pupusas are larger, flatter, and stuffed *before* cooking. The picture below (and the one from above) shows pupusas served with salsa roja and a type of cabbage slaw called curtido.
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
RELIGION
It's the term for the small box & leather strap worn by the Orthodox Jewish man seen here
***PHYLACTERY***
Phylacteries (also called tefillin) are small black cube-shaped cases with leather straps that contain verses from the Torah. Typically worn at morning services, one of the phylacteries is worn on the arm and the other is worn on the forehead. Other objects worn by some Jewish men include a tallit (a white prayer shawl) and a kippah (a skullcap, also called a yarmulke).
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
CARATS
Catherine the Great owned a 107-carat one of these gems from Colombia; a necklace with a 75-carat version sold for $4.3 mil.
***EMERALD***
Emeralds are a variety of beryl that are green due to the presence of chromium (usually). The gem aquamarine is another variety of beryl. The largest producers of gem-quality emeralds in the world are Colombia and Zambia. Emerald is the birthstone for May. Here are the birthstones (all of which are “cardinal gems”) for some of the other months:
February = amethyst (purple)
April = diamond (transparent)
July - ruby (red)
September = sapphire (blue)
