Pop Culture Jeopardy! #1 (Special Edition)
Movies, Beyoncé, Graphic Novels, Acting Sisters, Madonna, Ozzy Osbourne, Mad Max, Celebrity Makeup, The Pussycat Dolls, and more...
Thank you for reading another issue of the Jeopardy Answer & Question Recap, or JAQR [“jacker”] for short. The show Pop Culture Jeopardy! recently aired on Amazon Prime Video. This recap includes one Daily Double from each of the first ten episodes of the show. 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.
JOHNNY GILBERT: FILM THESPIAN (name the movie)
“With nothing but a stack of receipts, I can trace the ups and downs of your lives, and it does not look, it does not look good”
MET GALA MOMENTS
In 2016, Beyoncé raised eyebrows by arriving solo (translation: without Jay-Z) a week after dropping this iconic album
ON THE CLOCK
“Doomsday Clock” is a graphic novel in which characters from this series, including Adrian Veidt, meet others from the DC Universe
THE 1970S
The White Stripes, Miley Cyrus, and now Beyoncé have covered this 1973 song about a woman "with flaming locks of auburn hair"
SISTER ACTS
Two acting sisters share this last name with the founder of football’s New York Giants, their great-grandfather
MADONNARAMA
Fresh off the success of “Snatch,” he directed Madonna’s violent “What It Feels Like For a Girl” video in 2001
NICKNAMES & ALIASES
Ozzy Osbourne relished this “devilish” nickname so much that he used it as the title of a 2005 album
DON’T CALL THEM NEPO BABIES!
Her dad’s a rock star; she’s an actress who flew down “Fury Road” as Toast the Knowing
CELEBRITY MAKEUP
Rhode Beauty takes its name from the middle name of this model, its founder
GIRL GROUPS
Before the Pussycat Dolls were a successful pop act, they were a burlesque troupe founded by this choreographer
—BONUS CLUE—
THE TONY AWARDS
In 2024, Jonathan Groff and this co-star who’s magical in the movies merrily rolled along to their first Tonys
JOHNNY GILBERT: FILM THESPIAN (name the movie)
“With nothing but a stack of receipts, I can trace the ups and downs of your lives, and it does not look, it does not look good”
***EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE***
The 2022 movie Everything Everywhere All at Once won the Oscar for Best Picture. It was directed by The Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), who won the Oscars for both Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Their previous works include the music video for “Turn Down for What” (2014 song by DJ Snake and Lil Jon) and the 2016 movie Swiss Army Man (co-starring Daniel Radcliffe as an inanimate flatulent corpse). It was produced by the company A24, which was named for an Italian motorway. The movie starred Michelle Yeoh as the Chinese-American immigrant and laundromat owner Evelyn Wang, who learns she is in a multiverse after being audited by the IRS. Ke Huy Quan played her husband Waymond and Jamie Lee Curtis played the tax auditor Deirdre. All three won Oscars for their acting performances.
In one of the universes from the movie, people have hot dogs for fingers. In another alternate universe, there is a movie called Raccacoonie featuring a chef (played by Harry Shum Jr.) controlled by a raccoon (instead of Ratatouille). The movie featured music by the band Son Lux, which was founded by Ryan Lott and also created music for the 2025 movie Thunderbolts*. On Letterboxd, Karsten Runquist (who has over 220,000 followers on the site) gave the movie 4 out of 5 stars and stated that it was "easily one of the top 5 movies about taxes."
The actress Michelle Yeoh [yo] was born in Malaysia in 1962. She began acting after winning the 1983 Miss Malaysia pageant. Known for performing her own stunts, she starred with Jackie Chan in the 1996 Honk Kong action movie Supercop (also known as Police Story 3). She became more well-known in the U.S. after playing the Bond girl Wai Lin in the 1997 movie Tomorrow Never Dies. She became a global star after appearing with Chow Yun-fat in the 2000 martial arts movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. She co-starred in the 2005 movie Memoirs of a Geisha, which was based on an Arthur Golden book. She played the Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi in the 2011 biopic The Lady.
Yeoh reunited with her EEAaO co-stars Ke Huy Quan and Stephanie Hsu for the 2023 Disney+ sitcom American Born Chinese, which was based on a Gene Luen Yang graphic novel. She played a supposed psychic medium in the 2023 movie A Haunting in Venice, which was based on Agatha Christie's work Hallowe'en Party. She played Madame Morrible (rhymes with horrible for a reason) in the 2024 movie Wicked. She stars as Philippa Georgiou in the Paramount+ show Star Trek: Section 31, which debuted in 2025 and is a spin-off of Star Trek: Discovery.
MET GALA MOMENTS
In 2016, Beyoncé raised eyebrows by arriving solo (translation: without Jay-Z) a week after dropping this iconic album
***LEMONADE***
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter was born in Houston in 1981. She was lead singer of the R&B group Destiny’s Child, whose four #1 hits were "Bills, Bills, Bills," "Say My Name," "Independent Women Part I," and "Bootylicious." Originally named Girl’s Tyme, the group included her childhood friend Kelly Rowland. Beyoncé married Jay-Z in 2008, the same year she founded the company Parkwood Entertainment, which is the owner of the clothing line Ivy Park (named for her daughter Blue Ivy and the Houston neighborhood Parkwood Park). Along with Blue Ivy, who was born in 2012, she has the twins Rumi and Sir, who were born in 2017. She has the most Grammys of all-time, with 35. Perhaps surprisingly, second-place on that list is the Hungarian-British conductor Georg Solti (1912-1997), with 31. She has also dabbled in acting, playing Foxxy Cleopatra in Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), co-starring in Dreamgirls (2006), and voicing Nala in The Lion King (2019). Her little sister Solange is also a singer.
All eight of Beyoncé’s solo studio albums debuted at number one. For info about her first album, 2003’s Dangerously in Love (which was an answer at the World Quizzing Championships this weekend) check out Triple Stumper #1 from this past recap: https://jaqr.substack.com/p/jaqr-june-18-2023
Beyoncé’s other seven albums are:
B'Day (2006) - includes the hit singles “Déjà Vu” (featuring Jay-Z) and “Irreplaceable” (has lyrics by Ne-Yo)
I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008) - double album that includes the hit singles “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” (music video inspired by the Bob Fosse routine "Mexican Breakfast") and “Halo” (music video features the actor Michael Ealy)
4 (2011) - named for her favorite number, its most popular song is “Run the World (Girls),” which samples “Pon de Floor” by Major Lazer
Beyoncé (2013) - creatively-titled fifth album, it had music videos made for each song, making it a “visual album”; it includes the songs “Drunk in Love” (features Jay-Z) and “Flawless” (includes part of Chimamanda Adichie’s TEDx talk “We Should All Be Feminists”)
Lemonade (2016) - accompanied by a 65-minute movie, the album includes many songs in which Beyoncé recites the works of British poet Warsan Shire; the album explores Jay-Z’s infidelity and includes the song “Formation,” which has the aspirational lyrics “when he f*ck me good, I take his a$$ to Red Lobster" and was performed at the Super Bowl 50 halftime show; in the music video for the song "Hold Up," Beyoncé damages many cars with a baseball cat
Renaissance (2022) - dance music album whose hits include “Break My Soul” (samples Big Freedia's "Explode") and “Cuff It” (lyrics include "Can I sit on top of you")
Cowboy Carter (2024) - country pop album that includes “Texas Hold ‘Em” (the first song performed by a Black woman to top the country charts) and “II Most Wanted” (includes Miley Cyrus and interpolates Fleetwood Mac’s song “Landslide”)
ON THE CLOCK
“Doomsday Clock” is a graphic novel in which characters from this series, including Adrian Veidt, meet others from the DC Universe