JAQR - November 3, 2024
Siberian bodies of water, Musical settings, Canadian islands, The Heidi Chronicles, Yoga, Annie Ernaux, Big Freedia, 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 10/28 and Friday 11/1. The recap includes Daily Doubles, Final Jeopardy clues, and Triple Stumpers. 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.
DAILY DOUBLE #1
BODIES OF WATER
Cities on the shore of this lake include Babushkin, a stop on the Trans-Siberian Railway
DAILY DOUBLE #2
PRIME NUMBERS ON TV
Her real name turns out to be Jane Ives, & she developed powers due to involvement in the government's MK-Ultra program
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
STAGE MUSICAL SETTINGS
Turned into a Nazi headquarters in 1933, the nightspot Eldorado is said to have inspired this fictional place
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
ARTIFACTS
Roughly, 180 of these were made & 50 remain; the man who created them was given a pension by the Archbishop of Mainz in 1465
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
EXTREME CANADA
At 83 degrees 7 minutes north latitude, Canada's most northerly point is Cape Columbia on this island in Nunavut territory
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
TIME FOR SOME DRAMA
Her play "The Heidi Chronicles" won both a 1989 Tony & Pulitzer
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
JOIN UP!
Join a yoga studio--maybe start with this gentle discipline from Sanskrit for "force"
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
FRENCH AUTHORS
Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux has written intensely personal memoirs & melded her own history with France's in "Les années", i.e. these
TRIPLE STUMPER #5
RAP GENRES
With the triggerman beat, rappers like Big Freedia innovate in this rap subgenre that sounds like what you'd do on a trampoline
TRIPLE STUMPER #6
CLASSICAL MUSICIANS
L.A.'s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion opened in 1964 with a performance by this Lithuanian-born violinist & longtime USC teacher
LAST WEEK REVIEW #1
What novel by Khaled Hosseini, which centers on Mariam and Laila, was published four years after The Kite Runner?
LAST WEEK REVIEW #2
What Swedish chemist is credited with discovering cerium, selenium, silicon, and thorium?
BONUS CLUE #1
THE MACHINE'S BROKEN
In 1962, software that lacked a bar over "R" in a radius symbol doomed this oceanic spacecraft 1, NASA's first effort to reach Venus
BONUS CLUE #2
TIME FOR SOME DRAMA
The protagonist of August Wilson's "Fences" is Troy Maxson, a once-great but frustrated player of this sport
BONUS CLUE #3
THAT'S A REALLY BIG DITCH!
Forming part of the border between Serbia & Romania, the Iron Gate is a 2-mile-long gorge on this river
BONUS CLUE #4
U.S. GOVERNMENT
In the 1930s this state eliminated a house of its legislature & the salaries of 90 out of 133 lawmakers
BONUS CLUE #5
HISTORY & THE MOVIES
This 1935 Best Picture Oscar winner tells of a 1789 event near the isolated Pacific volcano of Tofua
DAILY DOUBLE #1
BODIES OF WATER
Cities on the shore of this lake include Babushkin, a stop on the Trans-Siberian Railway
***LAKE BAIKAL***
Lake Baikal in Siberia is the world’s largest freshwater lake. It is also the world’s deepest lake (more than a mile deep) and oldest lake (about 25 million years old). More than 300 rivers flow into the lake, but it has only one outlet, the Angara River (tributary of the Yenisey). The only seal that exclusively lives in fresh water is the Baikal seal (also called the nerpa), which is endemic to the lake. A type of fish called the omul is also endemic to the lake.
Russia is divided into various federal subjects, including 46 oblasts and 21 republics. Lake Baikal is divided between two of those federal subjects: Irkutsk Oblast and the Republic of Buryatia. The lake contains a couple dozen islands, the largest of which is Olkhon (or Olchon). It is the world’s third largest naturally-occurring lake island (275 square miles). FYI: the world’s largest is Lake Huron’s Manitoulin Island (over a thousand square miles).
DAILY DOUBLE #2
PRIME NUMBERS ON TV
Her real name turns out to be Jane Ives, & she developed powers due to involvement in the government's MK-Ultra program
***ELEVEN***
The character Eleven, who develops psychokinetic powers after being experimented on by scientists, is played by Millie Bobby Brown on Stranger Things. The supernatural Netflix show was created by the identical twin Duffer brothers (Matt and Ross). The show is set in the small town of Hawkins, Indiana as well as an alternate dimension called the Upside Down. The show's cast includes Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers, whose son Will (played by Noah Schnapp) disappears in Season One. The actor David Harbour plays the police chief Jim Hopper, who adopts Eleven. Kate Bush’s 1985 song “Running Up That Hill” saw a resurgence in popularity after being featured in Season Four of the show.
British actress Millie Bobby Brown was born in 2004. She made her film debut in the 2019 movie Godzilla: King of the Monsters and played the sister of Sherlock Holmes in the 2020 Netflix movie Enola Holmes (based on a Nancy Springer book). In 2024 she married Jake Bongiovi, the son of Jon Bon Jovi.
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
STAGE MUSICAL SETTINGS
Turned into a Nazi headquarters in 1933, the nightspot Eldorado is said to have inspired this fictional place
***KIT KAT KLUB***
The Kit Kat Klub (called the Kit Kat Club in recent revivals) is a primary setting in the 1966 musical Cabaret. It was created by the songwriting team of John Kander (composer) and Fred Ebb (lyricist), whose other big hit musical was 1975's Chicago. It was based on John Van Druten’s 1951 play I Am a Camera, which itself was based on Christopher Isherwood’s 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin. It is set near the end of the Weimar Republic, when the Nazis are starting to rise to power.
The musical focuses on a doomed relationship between Sally Bowles (British flapper who is the headliner at the Klub) and Clifford Bradshaw (American writer). Another prominent character is The Emcee (the Master of Ceremonies at the Klub), who sings the musical's opening number, “Willkommen.” In the 1972 film adaptation, Sally was played by Liza Minnelli. The American character Clifford was turned into the British character Brian, who was played by Michael York (who later played Basil in the Austin Powers series). Joel Grey (father of Jennifer Grey) played The Emcee in both the musical and movie.
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
ARTIFACTS
Roughly, 180 of these were made & 50 remain; the man who created them was given a pension by the Archbishop of Mainz in 1465