JAQR - September 15, 2024
Hand and foot bones, 3x presidential election losers, Mountain ranges, British drummers, War of the Pacific, Noël Coward, Dr. Seuss stories, 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 9/9 and Friday 9/13. 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.
P.S. The recaps will now include a small section called “Last Week Review,” which will ask about two things covered in the previous recap.
DAILY DOUBLE #1
DR. KEN
I'll put my imaginary medical degree on there being 56 of these bones in the human body--14 in each hand & foot
DAILY DOUBLE #2
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION LOSERS
Twice to one William & once to another William, this William ran & lost 3 times
DAILY DOUBLE #3
MOUNTAINS
This mountain range forms an arc from the Danube gap near Bratislava to the Iron Gate near Orsova, Romania
DAILY DOUBLE #4
FOR YOU PAGE
She dedicated a 2017 book to those out on their own paths setting "Little Fires"
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
FAMOUS WOMEN
Before her death in 2022, she pledged her collection of more than 200 pins to the National Museum of American Diplomacy
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
BRITISH KNIGHTS
A sir since 2018, he contracted TB as a teen in 1953 & spent years in a sanatorium, where he learned to play the drums
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
HISTORIC GROUPS OF 3
3 countries were involved in the 1879-1883 War of the Pacific & this nation lost its access to that ocean as a result
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS
In this Noël Coward comedy, a man is haunted by the ghosts of his dead wives
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
BOOKS FOR KIDS
A burp takes down the totalitarian king in this story by Dr. Seuss
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
BEAR WITH US
Before being transformed into a bear, she was a follower of Artemis
LAST WEEK REVIEW #1
What author from Maine wrote Olive Kitteridge and My Name Is Lucy Barton?
LAST WEEK REIVEW #2
The morning radio show The Breakfast Club features Charlamagne tha God and what two other co-hosts, whose legal names are RaaShaun Casey and Jessica Moore?
BONUS CLUE #1
SONGS FOR THE YOUNG & OLD
At the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, Nina Simone performed the song titled "To Be Young" & these 2 things
BONUS CLUE #2
THE CLASH
In 202 B.C. Scipio Africanus got one over on Hannibal at this end-of-the-alphabet clash that ended the 2nd Punic War
BONUS CLUE #3
BIBLICAL FATHERS & SONS
The angel Gabriel appeared to the priest Zechariah & told him that his wife "Elisabeth shall bear thee a son" named this
DAILY DOUBLE #1
DR. KEN
I'll put my imaginary medical degree on there being 56 of these bones in the human body--14 in each hand & foot
***PHALANGES***
Phalanges [fah-LAN-jees] are the small bones of the digits (fingers and toes). The word “phalanges” is the plural term for “phalanx,” which was used in ancient Greece to refer to a row of troops. There are three types of phalanges: distal, intermediate, and proximal. In humans and other primates, the thumbs and big toes don’t have intermediate phalanges, but the rest of the fingers and toes have one of each type.
Each hand also contains five metacarpals (or palm bones), which are referred to by the Roman numerals I, II, III, IV, and V. Each foot contains five metatarsals, which are also referred to by Roman numerals. Each hand contains eight carpals (or wrist bones), while each foot contains seven tarsals. The seven tarsals (pictured below) are the calcaneus, the talus bone, the cuboid bone, the navicular bone, and the cuneiform bones (medial, intermediate, and lateral).
Here is a list of the eight carpal bones and what they resemble, according to their etymology:
Scaphoid - boat
Lunate - crescent moon
Triquetrum - three-cornered object
Pisiform - pea
Trapezium - table
Trapezoid - table
Capitate - head
Hamate - hook
DAILY DOUBLE #2
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION LOSERS
Twice to one William & once to another William, this William ran & lost 3 times
***WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN***
American politician William Jennings Bryan was born in 1860. At a relatively young age, he served as a member of the U.S. House from Nebraska (1891-1895). He was the leader of the Free Silver Movement, also known as bimetallism. He is known for the “Cross of Gold” speech, which was given in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention in 1896. In the speech, Bryan attacked the gold standard and crusaded for the expanded coinage of silver. The speech includes the line “You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
Bryan ran for president in 1896, becoming the youngest major party presidential nominee in U.S. history. He is also the youngest person to receive an electoral vote. He lost to William McKinley, who also beat him in 1900. Bryan then lost to William Howard Taft in 1908 (in case you were wondering, in 1904 the Democrats nominated the unforgettable Alton B. Parker, who lost in a landslide to Teddy Roosevelt). A dubious distinction Bryan holds is winning the most electoral votes (cumulatively over his three election losses) without ever becoming president. Bryan later served as Woodrow Wilson’s Secretary of State from 1913-1915. The pacifist Bryan resigned after Wilson threatened Germany with war after a U-boat sank the Lusitania.
Bryan’s nicknames included “The Great Commoner" and “Boy Orator of the Platte.” He was the subject of the Vachel Lindsay poem “Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan,” in which he was called “the one American Poet who could sing outdoors.” Bryan believed in a literal interpretation of the Bible and argued for the prosecution in the 1925 Scopes Trial. He died six days after the trial ended. For more info about the “Monkey Trial,” check out Final Jeopardy #4 from this past recap: https://jaqr.substack.com/p/jaqr-june-9-2024
DAILY DOUBLE #3
MOUNTAINS
This mountain range forms an arc from the Danube gap near Bratislava to the Iron Gate near Orsova, Romania