JAQR - November 18, 2022
Odes by Keats, 2022 hit songs, and Bellini operas
Thank you for reading another issue of the Jeopardy Answer & Question Recap, or JAQR [“jacker”] for short. This recap will focus on the TOC Finals games 1-3 (which aired 11/14 - 11/16), instead of the usual Friday only clues. This recap will include some Daily Doubles, one Final, and mostly 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, or some related info.
DAILY DOUBLE #1
POETRY
"Thou singest of summer in full-throated ease", Keats wrote in "Ode to" this creature
DAILY DOUBLE #2
A LITTLE PEACE OF HISTORY
The 2006 Greentree Agreement, settling a fight by shifting a peninsula from Nigeria to Cameroon was brokered by this African
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
NAME’S THE SAME
Name shared by a Victorian novelist & an 1805 flagship captain whose name is heard in a famous phrase
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
AT THE MALL OF AMERICA
Fabletics, co-founded by this actress
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
POETRY
The "Terrible Sonnets" of this 3-named 19th c. poet aren't bad but sad, like "No Worst, There is None" & "Carrion Comfort"
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
PLAYING THE HITS OF 2022
After being on soundtrack hits from the "Descendants" franchise, she had a hit with "Boyfriend"
TRIPLE STUMPERS #4
PLAYING THE HITS OF 2022
A groove from 1981's "Genius Of Love" by this Talking Heads side project found its way into Latto's "Big Energy"
TRIPLE STUMPER #5
OPERA CHARACTERS
In a Bellini opera the heroine Amina suffers from this often nocturnal affliction
TRIPLE STUMPER #6
COLD AROUND THE GLOBE
One of mountain climbing's Seven Summits, Jaya Peak is on the Indonesian part of this big island
TRIPLE STUMPER #7
HEARD IN THE MOVIE
From the '80s: "I want my 2 dollars"
DAILY DOUBLE #1
POETRY
"Thou singest of summer in full-throated ease", Keats wrote in "Ode to" this creature
***NIGHTINGALE***
English poet John Keats is considered to have written many of his greatest poems in the same year (1819). He died from tuberculosis two years later at the age of 25. The works from 1819 include six famous odes, including “Ode on Indolence,” “Ode to Psyche,” “Ode to Melancholy,” and the following three:
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” - Ends with the lines “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
“Ode to a Nightingale” - The source of the title of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, the poems calls the title bird a “light-winged Dryad of the trees.”
“To Autumn” - Opens with the lines “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, / Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.”
DAILY DOUBLE #2
A LITTLE PEACE OF HISTORY
The 2006 Greentree Agreement, settling a fight by shifting a peninsula from Nigeria to Cameroon was brokered by this African
***KOFI ANNAN***
Kofi Annan was a diplomat born in Ghana (then a British colony called The Gold Coast) who served as Secretary-General of the UN from 1997-2006. Annan and the UN shared a Nobel Peace Prize in 2001 for "their work for a better organized and more peaceful world." In 2005, a committee (led by former Federal Reserve chair Paul Volcker) faulted Annan for allowing Saddam Hussein to graft over a billion dollars from a UN program called Oil-for-Food, which allowed Iraq (which was under sanctions following the Gulf War) to sell oil to pay for food.
Here’s a list of the other eight Secretaries General of the United Nations, along with when they served, their country of origin, and some other info about them:
Trygve Lie [lee] (1946-1952) Norway - resigned due to Soviet resentment of his support for the UN intervening in the Korean War
Dag [dahg] Hammarskjöld (1953-1961) Sweden - died during the Congo Crisis in a plane crash en route to Katanga, which had seceded from the newly independent country now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo
U Thant (1962-1971) Burma - authorized Operation Grandslam, which led to Katanga being forcibly reintegrated into the Congo
Kurt Waldheim (1972-1981) Austria - may have been involved in Nazi war crimes as a young man and later served as president of Austria
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar [KWAY-yar] (1982-1991) Peru - helped reach a cease-fire in the Iran-Iraq war and later ran for president of Peru, but lost to Alberto Fujimori
Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1992-1996) Egypt - criticized for failing to stop the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and was blocked from a second term by the U.S.
Ban [bahn] Ki-moon (2007-2016) South Korea - won a competition sponsored by the Red Cross and was able to meet JFK at the White House at the age of 18
António Guterres [goo-TEH-rehsh] (2017-) Portugal - former prime minister of Portugal who is currently in his second term as Secretary-General (seen below)
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
NAME’S THE SAME
Name shared by a Victorian novelist & an 1805 flagship captain whose name is heard in a famous phrase
***THOMAS HARDY***
The author Thomas Hardy set many of his works in Wessex. Some of his more popular novels include Jude the Obscure (1895), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and the following two:
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) - begins with the title character, Michael Henchard, drunkenly selling his wife and infant daughter to a sailor for five guineas at the county fair
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) - focuses on Bathsheba Everdene, who is deciding who to marry: dashing but heartless soldier Sergeant Troy, lonely farmer William Boldwood, or hardworking shepherd Gabriel Oak
The naval officer Thomas Hardy was captain of Horatio Nelson's flagship, the HMS Victory, during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The naval battle was part of the Napoleonic Wars and was fought along the southwest coast of Spain. Shortly before the battle, Nelson used flags to relay the message "England expects that every man will do his duty." Nelson’s non-conventional strategy involved advancing on the French and Spanish fleets in two divisions in order to break their line. Nelson led the British to victory, but was mortally wounded by enemy fire. Nelson's final words are believed to be "Kiss me, Hardy."
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
AT THE MALL OF AMERICA
Fabletics, co-founded by this actress
***KATE HUDSON***
The men's and women's activewear company Fabletics was co-founded in 2013 by the actress Kate Hudson, whose mom is Goldie Hawn. Hudson received many accolades for her performance in Cameron Crowe’s 2000 movie Almost Famous, which centers on an aspiring music journalist who is sent on the road by Rolling Stone to write an article about the band Stillwater. Hudson plays the groupie “band aid” Penny Lane, who based on a real person that was a member of The Flying Garter Girls. Fun fact: the singer Katy Perry (born Katheryn Hudson) changed her name to avoid confusion with the actress.
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
POETRY
The "Terrible Sonnets" of this 3-named 19th c. poet aren't bad but sad, like "No Worst, There is None" & "Carrion Comfort"
***GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS***
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) was a English poet who was also a Jesuit priest. His most famous poems include “The Wreck of the Deutschland" (inspired by the death of five Franciscan nuns in a shipwreck), “The Windhover” (titled for a kestrel, or small falcon that hovers in the air by rapidly beating its wings while searching for food), and “Pied Beauty” (opens with the line “Glory be to God for dappled things”). Many of his poems make use of “sprung rhythm,” which resembles common speech.
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
PLAYING THE HITS OF 2022
After being on soundtrack hits from the "Descendants" franchise, she had a hit with "Boyfriend"
***DOVE CAMERON***
Dove Cameron is a queer singer and actress whose 2022 song "Boyfriend" achieved moderate success. Its lyrics include "I could be a better boyfriend than him" and “Plus all my clothes would fit.” She’s probably better known for her roles on the Disney Channel. She starred in the 2015 movie Descendants (not to be confused with a film starring George Clooney, The Descendants). In the movie, she played Mal, the daughter of Maleficent. Mal and three other "descendants" of Disney villains (called Villain Kids, or VKs) were banished to the Isle of the Lost, but are invited to the USA (United States of Auradon), which is ruled by Beast and Belle.
Dove Cameron also starred on the TV show Liv and Maddie (2013-2017), on which she played both title characters. The show centers on Liv Rooney, a Hollywood actress, moving back home to Wisconsin, where her sporty twin sister Maddie lives. Dove Cameron also had a minor role as the waitress Betsy on the Apple TV+ show Schmigadoon! The show, which parodies Brigadoon, stars Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key as a bickering couple who stumble upon the title magical and musical town, which they're only allowed to leave if they find true love. The awesome song “Corn Puddin’ from the show can be heard below:
TRIPLE STUMPERS #4
PLAYING THE HITS OF 2022
A groove from 1981's "Genius Of Love" by this Talking Heads side project found its way into Latto's "Big Energy"
***TOM TOM CLUB***
Tom Tom Club was a Talking Heads (new wave band led by David Byrne) side project led by drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth, who are husband and wife. The best known songs by Tom Tom Club include "Wordy Rappinghood" and "Genius of Love," both from 1981. Many songs have sampled “Genius of Love,” including Mariah Carey's 1995 song "Fantasy."
TRIPLE STUMPER #5
OPERA CHARACTERS
In a Bellini opera the heroine Amina suffers from this often nocturnal affliction
***SLEEPWALKING***
Vincenzo Bellini was a 19th century Italian composer. He was born in Catania on the island of Sicily. He is best known for his operas in the smooth and florid bel canto (“beautiful singing”) style, which emphasized clear articulation and enunciation. Some of his most famous operas include The Sleepwalker (or La sonnambula), The Puritans (or I puritani), and Norma, the last of which is set in Gaul. The title character of Norma is a high-priestess of the Druids who sings the aria “Casta Diva” and is sentenced to death for her relationship with the Roman proconsul Pollione. The soprano Maria Callas, of Greek heritage, can be heard singing that aria below:
TRIPLE STUMPER #6
COLD AROUND THE GLOBE
One of mountain climbing's Seven Summits, Jaya Peak is on the Indonesian part of this big island
***NEW GUINEA***
Jaya Peak is known in Indonesian as Puncak Jaya ("Glorious Peak") and was formerly named Puntjak Sukarno after Indonesian’s first president. Its other former/alternate names include Mount Carstensz (or the Carstensz Pyramid), which refers to 17th century Dutch explorer Jan Carstenszoon, who was the first European to spot it.
The Seven Summits are the highest peaks on each of the seven continents. Sometimes, Mount Kosciuszko [kuh-SHOO-skoh] is considered a member since it's the highest peak in Australia proper, even though New Guinea is generally considered part of the continent of Australia. The other controversy involves Europe, since Mount Elbrus is sometimes considered to be in Asia. North America’s highest point, Denali, (formerly known as Mount McKinley) has a name that comes from an Athabaskan language word meaning “tall.” South America’s highest point, Aconcagua, is part of the Andes in Argentina. Its summit was first reached by Swiss mountaineer Matthias Zurbriggen.
TRIPLE STUMPER #7
HEARD IN THE MOVIE
From the '80s: "I want my 2 dollars"
***BETTER OFF DEAD***
The black comedy Better Off Dead is a 1985 cult favorite starring John Cusack as the teenager Lane, who incompetently fails to commit suicide several times after his girlfriend dumps him. A famous quote from the film, “I want my two dollars,” is spoken by a pesky newspaper delivery boy. The movie was directed by Savage Steve Holland, who according to IMDB, “began his career animating the Whammy on the game show Press Your Luck.”