JAQR - Recap Quiz (Special Edition)
Test your knowledge of previous editions of JAQR
Thank you for reading another issue of the Jeopardy Answer & Question Recap, or JAQR [“jacker”] for short. This special edition will include 88 questions based on previous editions of JAQR from 2022. The recap will ask about content from the following 14 “regular” issues: 9/16, 9/30, 10/7, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28, 11/11, 11/18, 11/25, 12/2, 12/9, 12/16, 12/23, and 12/30. Many of the questions are pretty hard, so I’d say a score of around 44 or more is very good. There’s between 5-10 questions in each of these 11 categories: Assorted Academic, Books, Fine Arts, Geography, History, Literature, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, Popular Culture, and Sports.
Assorted Academic - Questions
1. What mythological trio, which included Thalia [THAH-lee-ah], Aglaia [ag-LAY-ah], and Euphrosyne [yoo-FRAHZ-nee], can be seen on the left side of Sandro Botticelli’s painting Primavera?
2. The posterior portion of the pituitary gland secretes vasopressin (also called ADH) and what other hormone, which stimulates contractions of the uterus during labor and promotes maternal bonding?
3. What animal is the namesake of the Quran's second surah, which is also the longest?
4. In mitosis, which of the five stages is last both chronologically and alphabetically?
5. What author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was the mother of Mary Shelley? Hint: they had the same first name.
6. The constellation Canis Major is home to what brightest star in the entire night sky, which is nicknamed the “dog star”?
7. What 4th century female saint, who was supposed to be killed using a spiked breaking wheel, instead was beheaded, after which milk gushed out of her neck?
8. The functional tissue of the spleen is composed of pulp named for what two colors?
9. The findings of the anthropologist who wrote Coming of Age in Samoa were criticized by what man in his 1998 work The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead?
10. The Egyptian god Osiris was the offspring of what earth god and sky goddess (pictured below), both of whom typically have three letters in their name?
Assorted Academic - Answers
1. ***GRACES*** (or Charities)
2. ***OXYTOCIN***
3. ***COW***
4. ***TELOPHASE***
5. ***MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT***
6. ***SIRIUS***
7. ***ST. CATHERINE***
8. ***RED & WHITE***
9. ***DEREK FREEMAN***
10. ***GEB & NUT***
Books - Questions
1. The children’s book Sarah, Plain and Tall was written by what Wyoming-born author, who died in 2022?
2. What book about the medical diagnostic company Theranos by John Carreyrou is subtitled “Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup”? Hint: it shares its name with a 2015 song by Taylor Swift that features Kendrick Lamar.
3. What book by Stephanie Meyer retells the events of Twilight from Edward's perspective?
4. What language is spoken by the rabbits in the Richard Adams book Watership Down? It shares its name with the feminine French word for “rabbit.”
5. Who wrote about the art student Clare and the librarian Henry in her 2003 novel The Time Traveler’s Wife?
6. The TV show Bosch (whose title character is pictured below) streams on Amazon Prime Video and was based on detective novels such as The Black Echo and The Concrete Blonde by what author?
Books - Answers
1. ***PATRICIA MACLACHLAN***
2. ***BAD BLOOD***
3. ***MIDNIGHT SUN***
4. ***LAPINE***
5. ***AUDREY NIFFENEGGER*** [NIF-eh-neg-er]
6. ***MICHAEL CONNELL***
Fine Arts - Questions
1. The documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is about what female photographer, who created a slide show accompanied by music titled The Ballad of Sexual Dependency?
2. Flemish painter Anthony Van Dyck depicted what British king from three different viewpoints in a circa 1635 work?
3. What title character of a Vincenzo Bellini opera is a high-priestess of the Druids who sings the aria “Casta Diva”?
4. What art museum in The Hague, Netherlands is home to Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt, and View of Delft by Johannes Vermeer?
5. What ballet by French composer Léo Delibes [deh-LEEB] was partly based on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s story “The Sandman” and concerns Swanhilda and her fiancé Franz, who becomes infatuated with the title life-size mechanical doll?
6. What museum in Madrid is home to Picasso's painting Guernica? According to many travel guides, it makes up the “Golden Triangle of Art” along with the Prado and Thyssen museums.
7. P. T. Barnum nicknamed what soprano (pictured below) “The Swedish Nightingale”?
Fine Arts - Answers
1. ***NAN GOLDIN***
2. ***CHARLES I***
3. ***NORMA***
4. ***MAURITSHUIS*** [MAR-itz-"house”]
5. ***COPPELIA***
6. ***REINA SOFIA***
7. ***JENNY LIND***
Geography - Questions
1. What country’s flag includes a green stripe to represent Muslims, an orange stripe to represent Tamils (who are typically Hindus), and a maroon background and golden lion to represent the Sinhalese (who are typically Theravada Buddhists)?
2. What state capital is on an isthmus, in between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona?
3. What two disputed territories were recognized by Russia (and few others) as independent following Russia’s brief August 2008 war with Georgia? Their capitals are Sukhumi [suh-KOO-mee] and Tskhinvali [SKIN-vah-lee].
4. What capital of the Chinese province Xinjiang [SHIN-jee-ahng] holds the Guinness world record for being the city most remote from the sea (around 1500 miles from the nearest coastline)?
5. The U.S. Virgin Islands were sold to the U.S. by what nation in 1917 for $25 million?
6. What are Canada’s only two provinces and/or territories that are landlocked?
7. What executive capital of South Africa is named for the Boer statesman (pictured below) who was injured, but victorious, at the 1838 Battle of Blood River?
Geography - Answers
1. ***SRI LANKA***
2. ***MADISON***
3. ***ABKHAZIA & SOUTH OSSETIA***
4. ***URUMQI*** [urr-um-CHEE]
5. ***DENMARK***
6. ***ALBERTA & SASKATCHEWAN***
7. ***PRETORIA*** (named for Andries Pretorius)
History - Questions
1. What term is used to refer to the generals who fought for control of Alexander the Great’s empire after his death?
2. What English monk included an account of the Synod of Whitby in his 731 work Ecclesiastical History of the English People?
3. What kidnapping victim, who led the revolt on the Amistad, was played by Benin-born actor Djimon Hounsou [JEE-mahn hahn-SOO] in the 1997 movie Amistad?
4. What French king, who was coronated in 1429, had his political and military position improved thanks to Joan of Arc?
5. What man, who was Coolidge's Commerce Secretary, succeeded him as president?
6. What person, who was given honorary U.S. citizenship, was a Swedish businessman who saved thousands of Jews in Hungary during World War II?
7. What man who served as Woodrow Wilson’s Secretary of the Treasury was also Wilson’s son-in-law?
8. What English king, who succeeded Richard III, was the first monarch of the House of Tudor?
9. What fifth Secretary General of the UN (pictured below) served from 1982-1991, was from Peru, and later lost a presidential election to Alberto Fujimori?
History - Answers
1. ***DIADOCHI*** [dye-ah-doh-kye]
2. ***BEDE*** [beed]
3. ***JOSEPH CINQUE*** (or Sengbe Pieh)
4. ***CHARLES VII***
5. ***HERBERT HOOVER***
6. ***RAOUL WALLENBERG
7. ***WILLIAM GIBBS MCADOO***
8. ***HENRY VII***
9. ***JAVIER PEREZ DE CUELLAR*** [KWAY-yar]
Literature - Questions
1. What author wrote the 1899 poem "Sympathy," whose line "I know why the caged bird sings" inspired the title of a Maya Angelou autobiography?
2. What lawyer character from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is guillotined after he switches spots with the imprisoned Charles Darnay, who he sort of resembles?
3. In what novel by Anne Brontë is Gilbert Markham able to marry the title character after the death of her debauched husband Arthur Huntingdon?
4. The title of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel Tender Is the Night comes from what John Keats ode, which calls the title bird a “light-winged Dryad of the trees”?
5. What Tanzanian-born British author, who wrote the novels Paradise and By the Sea won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for his “penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee”?
6. What poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins opens with the line “Glory be to God for dappled things”?
7. What character from Shakespeare’s The Tempest states “we are such stuff / as dreams are made on," which is the basis of a line from the film The Maltese Falcon?
8. What epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow opens "by the shore of Gitche Gumee" and is named for an Ojibwa warrior who marries Minnehaha?
9. What protagonist of Thomas Hardy’s 1874 novel Far from the Madding Crowd is courted by dashing but heartless soldier Sergeant Troy, lonely farmer William Boldwood, and hardworking shepherd Gabriel Oak? This character was played by Carey Mulligan (picture below) in a 2015 movie.
Literature - Answers
1. ***PAUL LAURENCE DUNABR***
2. ***SYDNEY CARTON***
3. ***THE TENANT OF WILDFELD HALL***
4. ***ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE***
5. ***ABDULRAZAK GURNAH***
6. ***PIED BEAUTY***
7. ***PROSPERO***
8. ***THE SONG OF HIAWATHA***
9. ***BATHSHEBA EVERDENE***
Miscellaneous - Questions
1. What is the name of the band at the center of the 2000 movie Almost Famous? Hint: the band shares its name with the city that is home to the main campus of Oklahoma State University.
2. Marie Benedict’s book The Only Woman in the Room is about what Austrian-born actress who co-designed a torpedo guidance system?
3. What name is shared by a sea that separates Borneo from the Philippines and George Takei’s character on Star Trek?
4. What play by Harold Pinter used reverse chronology? It lends its title to an episode of Seinfeld in which several characters travel to India to attend a wedding.
5. What longest palindromic word in the OED means “a knock at the door.”
6. Tessa Thompson co-starred in the 2021 movie Passing, which was based on a book by what woman?
7. Banksy’s 2015 work The Son of a Migrant from Syria (pictured below) depicts what person, who was portrayed by Michael Fassbender in a 2015 movie?
Miscellaneous - Answers
1. ***STILLWATER***
2. ***HEDY LAMARR***
3. ***SULU***
4. ***THE BETRAYAL***
5. ***TATTARRATTAT***
6. ***NELLA LARSEN***
7. ***STEVE JOBS***
Movies - Questions
1. George Lazenby played James Bond in what movie?
2. What 1984 movie, in which Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen play brothers, was the first movie released in the U.S. with a PG-13 rating?
3. Oscar Isaac played the title struggling folk singer in what 2013 movie directed by the Coen brothers?
4. The 1985 black comedy Better Off Dead starred what actor as the teenager Lane, who incompetently fails to commit suicide several times after his girlfriend dumps him?
5. What documentary depicts Alex Honnold trying to climb El Capitan in Yosemite without using ropes, harnesses, or other protective equipment?
6. Jane Fonda's first husband was what director of the 1968 sci-fi movie Barbarella?
7. Who gave a two-word acceptance speech (“thank you”) at the Oscars after winning Best Supporting Actress for playing Helen Keller in the 1962 film The Miracle Worker?
8. The movies Boyz n the Hood (1991), Poetic Justice (1993), and Higher Learning (1995) were all directed by what man (pictured here in 1991), who died in 2019? He was the first Black person to be nominated for Best Director and is still the youngest Best Director nominee ever.
Movies - Answers
1. ***ON HER MAJESTY’S SERCRET SERVICE***
2. ***RED DAWN***
3. ***INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS***
4. ***JOHN CUSACK***
5. ***FREE SOLO***
6. ***ROGER VADIM***
7. ***PATTY DUKE***
8. ***JOHN SINGLETON***
Music - Questions
1. What alternative duo from the Isle of Wight, who were nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammys in 2023, has a debut single titled “Chaise Longue”?
2. What song by Nina Simone contains the lyrics “Alabama's gotten me so upset / Tennessee made me lose my rest." It was written shortly after the murder of Medgar Evers, who was assassinated in Jackson.
3. Sam Smith sang what theme song to the 2015 James Bond movie Spectre?
4. Tom Tom Club was a side project of the new wave band Talking Heads, which was led by what Scottish-born singer-songwriter?
5. The movie Bonnie and Clyde popularized what fast instrumental song by bluegrass banjo player Earl Scruggs?
6. Blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters recorded many hits for what record company that was named for the Polish immigrant brothers Leonard and Phil (and not a board game)?
7. What minimalist composed the score to the movies The Hours, The Truman Show, and The Illusionist?
8. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young released what 1970 album, which includes the hits “Woodstock,” “Teach Your Children,” and “Our House”?
9. What Filipina singer provided the singing voice for Jasmine in the 1992 animated movie Aladdin? She later provided the singing voice of the title character in the 1998 animated movie Mulan.
10. Chariots of Fire (1981), Blade Runner (1982), and The Bounty (1984) were all scored by what Greek composer (pictured below) who died in 2022?
Music - Answers
1. ***WET LEG***
2. ***MISSISSIPPI GODDAM***
3. ***WRITING’S ON THE WALL***
4. ***DAVID BYRNE***
5. ***FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN***
6. ***CHESS RECORDS***
7. ***PHILIP GLASS***
8. ***DEJA VU***
9. ***LEA SALONGA***
10. ***VANGELIS*** (or Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou)
Pop Culture - Questions
1. What eponymous white "mother sauce" is based on milk thickened with a white roux?
2. The movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail was adapted into what musical, which won Best Musical at the Tony Awards in 2005?
3. What character who titles a 1982 movie is from Cimmeria, lives during the Hyborian age, and was created by pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard?
4. Who is the only person on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with stars in all five categories? This person was also the founder and first owner of the Los Angeles Angels.
5. Pupusas are similar to what food popular in Colombia and Venezuela that is often served with a spicy condiment called ají [ah-HEE]?
6. Emerald is the birthstone for what month?
7. Dove Cameron had a minor role as the waitress Betsy on what Apple TV+ show? It starred Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key as a bickering couple who stumble upon the title magical and musical town.
8. What alliterative and geographically named cocktail was invented by the bartender Ngiam Tong Boon at the Raffles Hotel?
9. What person co-created the Adult Swim show Rick and Morty but will no longer be involved in the show as of January 2023 due to domestic abuse charges?
10. Betty Grable was briefly married to what actor (pictured below), who played Uncle Fester on the 1960s TV show The Addams Family and the title character in Charlie Chaplin's 1921 film The Kid?
Pop Culture - Answers
1. ***BECHAMEL***
2. ***SPAMALOT***
3. ***CONAN THE BARBARIAN***
4. ***GENE AUTRY***
5. ***AREPAS***
6. ***MAY***
7. ***SCHMIGADOON!***
8. ***SINGAPORE SLING***
9. ***JUSTIN ROILAND***
10. ***JACKIE COOGAN***
Sports - Questions
1. Joe Louis lost to what boxer from Nazi Germany nicknamed “The Black Uhlan of the Rhine” in 1936, but won the rematch in 1938?
2. The Climate Pledge Arena is the home of what NHL team?
3. Within ten percent, how many points did Georgia Tech score in a record-setting 1916 blowout victory over Cumberland?
4. What pitcher, who has the most career wins by a leftie in MLB history, helped lead the Braves to victory in the 1957 World Series?
5. What country’s coxswain Caleb Shepherd was the first man to win a women’s medal, doing so in the women’s coxed eight? This country's most successful Olympian is the canoeist Lisa Carrington (pictured below).
Sports - Answers
1. ***MAX SCHMELING***
2. ***SEATTLE KRAKEN***
3. ***222*** (accept any answer between 199-245)
4. ***WARREN SPAHN***
5. ***NEW ZEALAND*** (or Aotearoa)