JAQR - October 21, 2022
French animal names, state quarters, bifurcated penises, 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) October 21, 2022 episode of Jeopardy! It will include ~10 clues (Daily Doubles, Final Jeopardy, and some Triple Stumpers). The first half of the email 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.
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DAILY DOUBLE #1
AMERICAN HISTORY
In 1840 a U.S. judge ruled the unwilling passengers on this ship were kidnap victims, not merchandise
DAILY DOUBLE #2
SO YOU BLEW IT THE FIRST TIME
Last name of Milton, who moved to Philadelphia in 1876 to start a candy company; that one ended in bankruptcy but another did not
DAILY DOUBLE #3
IT’S ALL ABOUT HER
Subtitled "Coming of Age in America": this anthropologist
FINAL JEOPARDY
19TH CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS
This character from an 1859 novel symbolizes the Fates, who in mythology spin the web of life, measure it & cut it off
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
FROM C TO D (note: the response will start with ‘C’ and end with ‘D’)
It's French for le duck
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
SHAVE & A HAIRCUT
The name of a Flemish painter graces this beard that can include clean-shaven cheeks
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
2 BITS
On Connecticut's state quarter, the tree known as this oak displays its majestic reach
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
IT’S ALL ABOUT HER
"Out of the Corner" (because nobody puts Baby there)
TRIPLE STUMPER #5
IT’S ALL ABOUT HER
"I Put a Spell on You": this "High Priestess of Soul" & civil rights activist
TRIPLE STUMPER #6
MARSUPIALS
Ranging into southern Canada, the Virginia this is the only marsupial found north of Mexico
DAILY DOUBLE #1
AMERICAN HISTORY
In 1840 a U.S. judge ruled the unwilling passengers on this ship were kidnap victims, not merchandise
***AMISTAD***
The Amistad (or La Amistad, which is Spanish for "friendship") was a Spanish ship containing 53 enslaved people (specifically, members of the Mende ethnic group) who were abducted from Sierra Leone. After departing Havana in Cuba in 1839, the captives, led by Joseph Cinqué (also known as Sengbe Pieh), revolted and killed the captain. They demanded to go back to Africa, but were tricked, and the boat sailed north instead. The boat was seized near New York and towed to Connecticut, where they were arrested and charged with murder. At a trial, former president John Quincy Adams represented the Amistad captives, who were eventually able to return back to Sierra Leone.
Steven Spielberg directed the 1997 movie Amistad. Joseph Cinqué was played by Benin-born actor Djimon Hounsou [JEE-mahn hahn-SOO], who later co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio in Blood Diamond. John Quincy Adams was played by British actor Anthony Hopkins, who is the only actor to get Oscar nominations for playing two actual U.S. presidents (the other one is Richard Nixon in Oliver Stone's 1995 movie Nixon). Ruth E. Carter was nominated for Best Costume Design for her work on Amistad. She later became the first Black person to win an Oscar in that category, when she won for Black Panther.
DAILY DOUBLE #2
SO YOU BLEW IT THE FIRST TIME
Last name of Milton, who moved to Philadelphia in 1876 to start a candy company; that one ended in bankruptcy but another did not
***HERSHEY***
Pennsylvania native Milton Snavely Hershey (1857-1945) had his first success with the Lancaster Caramel Company, which used fresh milk in its caramels. After selling that company for one million dollars, he focused on making chocolate bars. During World War II, the U.S. military hired Hershey’s corporation to make Ration D Bars. They were intended to be eaten only when on the verge of starvation, so they had to taste “just a little better than a boiled potato.” Milton Hershey established a namesake town in Pennsylvania. It’s home to the popular theme park Hersheypark and the Hersheypark Arena, which is where Philadelphia Warriors center Wilt Chamberlain set an NBA record by scoring 100 points in an NBA game.
DAILY DOUBLE #3
IT’S ALL ABOUT HER
Subtitled "Coming of Age in America": this anthropologist
***MARGARET MEAD***
Mead was taught by Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict while at Columbia. She is probably best known for her 1928 book Coming of Age in Samoa, which chronicles a study on the island of Ta'u involving 25 local girls. Mead believed that “adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress” for the girls in part because the Samoans were free to engage in sex promiscuously. Her findings were criticized by Derek Freeman, who wrote a work titled The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead. Fellow anthropologist Gregory Bateson was married to Mead from 1936-1951. They had a child, Mary Catherine Bateson, who also became an anthropologist. Their pediatrician was Benjamin Spock.
FINAL JEOPARDY
19TH CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS
This character from an 1859 novel symbolizes the Fates, who in mythology spin the web of life, measure it & cut it off
***MADAME DEFARGE***
The vengeful Madame (Thérèse) Defarge is a character from the 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. She is known for her knitting and is a symbol of death, not unlike Victoria Groce on the game show The Chase. The book is set in London and Paris around the time of the French Revolution and has the famous opening: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” One of the main characters in the book is the lawyer Sydney Carton, who switches spots with the imprisoned Charles Darnay, who he sort of resembles. The book ends with the narrator imagining Sydney’s final words before he’s guillotined: “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
FROM C TO D (note: the response will start with ‘C’ and end with ‘D’)
It's French for le duck
***CANARD***
Confit de canard (or duck confit) is a French dish in which the duck is cooked in its own fat and preserved. As a result, it can stay good in the fridge for a month (or more). Here are some other French words for the names of animals along with a fun related fact:
chien = dog (Un Chien Andalou was a 1929 silent film written by Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel)
lapin = rabbit (Lapine is the language spoken by the rabbits in the Richard Adams book Watership Down)
vache = cow (The word vaccine is derived from the Latin word for 'cow' because the cowpox virus was used against smallpox)
mouton = sheep (Meat from an older sheep is called mutton)
chevre = goat (Chavrie is a yummy brand of goat cheese that comes in a distinctive pyramid-shaped package)
renard = fox (Reynard is the name of a sly fox from many European fables)
loup = wolf (Lupus is derived from the Latin word for "wolf" because the lesions caused by the disease were said to resemble a wolf's bite)
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
SHAVE & A HAIRCUT
The name of a Flemish painter graces this beard that can include clean-shaven cheeks
***VAN DYKE***
Anthony Van Dyck [dike] (1599-1641) was a painter born in Antwerp who early on worked with and was influenced by Peter Paul Rubens. Later, he was the main court painter of British king Charles I. He depicted the king from three different viewpoints in a painting titled Charles I in Three Positions. His other works include Self-Portrait with a Sunflower. Both of these works depict their subjects with the facial hair known as a Van Dyke.
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
2 BITS
On Connecticut's state quarter, the tree known as this oak displays its majestic reach
***CHARTER OAK***
The colony of Connecticut was allowed to self-govern thanks to a charter issued by King Charles II. When he died, his brother James II took over and wanted the charter returned. According to legend, the charter went missing during a meeting on Halloween after some candles were blown out. So that it wouldn’t be seized, the charter was hidden in a large hollow tree later dubbed the Charter Oak.
Here are some other states and what’s featured on their state quarters:
Delaware = Caesar Rodney on horseback
New Hampshire = Old Man of the Mountain (RIP)
Oregon = Crater Lake
West Virginia = New River Gorge Bridge
Nebraska = Chimney Rock
Colorado = Longs Peak
New Mexico = Zia sun symbol
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
IT’S ALL ABOUT HER
"Out of the Corner" (because nobody puts Baby there)
***JENNIFER GREY***
The actress Jennifer Grey recounts in the prologue to her memoir that she wasn’t getting the movie roles she wanted, even after appearing in Dirty Dancing and becoming “America’s Sweetheart.” In order to broaden her range, she wanted to get a nose job so that she could “be cast as something … other than a Jew." She is very happy after her (first) nose job, which focused on the tip of the nose, and actually made her nose bigger. After a while though, there’s a tiny but noticeable white bump (cartilage) on her nose, so she has to go in for some “fine-tuning.” Although it’s supposed to be a very minor procedure, her nose looks vastly different afterwards, and people don’t even recognize her anymore.
Jennifer Grey’s acting roles have included:
Red Dawn (1984) - She plays Toni Mason, a member of a group called the Wolverines, who band together to defend their Colorado town after its invaded by Soviet forces. Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen co-star as brothers. Fun fact: it was the first movie released in the U.S. with a PG-13 rating.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) - She plays the title character’s sister, Jeannie, who has quite the encounter with Charlie Sheen’s character at a police station.
Dirty Dancing (1987) - She plays Frances "Baby" Houseman, who falls in love with her dance instructor (Johnny Castle, played by Patrick Swayze) while at a vacation resort in the Borscht Belt. The film is remembered for the quote "Nobody puts Baby in a corner" and the song "(I've Had) The Time of My Life."
TRIPLE STUMPER #5
IT’S ALL ABOUT HER
"I Put a Spell on You": this "High Priestess of Soul" & civil rights activist
***NINA SIMONE***
The singer Eunice Kathleen Waymon (1933-2003) was known professionally as Nina Simone. She began singing at night clubs in the 1950s and at civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s. She left the U.S. in the 1970s because of racism and lived abroad the rest of her life. She lived in Barbados for a while, where her boyfriends included the Prime Minister, Errol Barrow.
One of her most famous songs is “Mississippi Goddam,” which contains the lyrics “Alabama's gotten me so upset / Tennessee made me lose my rest / And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam.” It was written shortly after the murder of Medgar Evers in Mississippi and the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Alabama. Another of her songs, “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” was written in memory of Lorraine Hansberry.
Her albums include:
Pastel Blues, which contains an arrangement of the spiritual "Sinnerman"
I Put a Spell on You, which contains "Feeling Good"
Little Girl Blue, which contains “I Loves You, Porgy” (an adaptation of a song from the opera Porgy and Bess by the Gershwin brothers)
TRIPLE STUMPER #6
MARSUPIALS
Ranging into southern Canada, the Virginia this is the only marsupial found north of Mexico
***OPPOSUM***
The saying “playing possum” is based on their tendency to appear unconscious or dead when they’re caught and unable to escape. Male opossums have a bifurcated (or forked) penis. This anatomical curiosity lead to the myth that male opossums bread with females through the nostrils, and that the females sneeze out their young. Although there may be around 25 young born in each littler, the maximum number that can survive is based on how many teats there are in the pouch, which is usually around 13. Mr. Reciprocity and Mr. Protection were pet opossums owned by U.S. president Benjamin Harrison. Opossums in pop culture include Pogo, who titled a Walt Kelly comic strip that ran from 1948-1975. An animal called the yapok that lives in Central and South America is known as the water opossum.
