Thank you for reading another issue of the Jeopardy Answer & Question Recap, or JAQR [“jacker”] for short. This recap includes at one clue from each Jeopardy! episode between Monday 11/11 and Friday 11/15. The recap includes Final Jeopardy clues, Daily Doubles, and Triple Stumpers (new order this week). 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.
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FINAL JEOPARDY #1
19th CENTURY AMERICA
It caused rich amusement that the name of this president, whose wife didn't allow dancing, was similar to that of a dance
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
POETRY & PLACES
It's the geographic word in the title of a Robert Burns poem about "the mountains... covered with snow... the straths & green valleys below"
FINAL JEOPARDY #3
SPORTS TEAMS
Fittingly, this team was born on November 1, 1966, the day the franchise was awarded
DAILY DOUBLE #1
MEXICAN STATE CAPITALS
Mérida is the capital of this southeastern peninsular state
DAILY DOUBLE #2
ENGLISH LITERATURE
In the first chapter of this E.M. Forster book, Lucy comments, "I want so to see the Arno"
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
WORLD OF LEADERS
Moving the Labour Party more to the center helped him return it to power as Britain's new prime minister in 2024
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
GREAT WOMEN IN SPORTS
A star on four WNBA championship teams in Seattle, this woman became the league's winningest player in 2022.
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
MUSICAL ETT(E)s
Though dark-haired, Johnette Napolitano was the lead singer of this group that in 1990 sang about Joey
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
THIS AMERICAN WIFE
After marrying Elliot in 1938, this inventor had 2 kids, Barbara & Ken, who were not thrilled being mom's inspiration
LAST WEEK REVIEW #1
Mrs. Arbuthnot calls Lord Illingworth “a man of no importance” at the end of an 1893 play by what author?
LAST WEEK REVIEW #2
What leader of the woman’s suffrage movement in New Zealand is depicted on the country's $10 banknote?
BONUS CLUE #1
MINERALS
The second-hardest natural material is this gemstone producer, a form of aluminum oxide
BONUS CLUE #2
ANCIENT GREECE
This Greek "Father of Tragedy" fought in the Battle of Marathon, which he included in an epitaph he wrote for himself
BONUS CLUE #3
AVIATORS
According to this French author/flier, a pilot "strives to outwit the forces of nature... truth for him is what lives in the stars"
BONUS CLUE #4
SCULPTORS
A sculpture Henry Moore did for this Midwestern school & called "Atom Piece" is in the form of a mushroom cloud
BONUS CLUE #5
BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS
From a 2022 Best Musical Tony nominee: "Ex-Wives" & "Don't Lose Ur Head"
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FINAL JEOPARDY #1
19th CENTURY AMERICA
It caused rich amusement that the name of this president, whose wife didn't allow dancing, was similar to that of a dance
***JAMES K. POLK***
James Knox Polk was born in 1795 in North Carolina, but he is probably more associated with Tennessee since he served it in the U.S. House of Representatives and was also its governor. He is the only person to be both Speaker of the House and U.S. president. He is often called the first “Dark Horse” presidential candidate because the Democrats were split on many issues and Polk was a compromise candidate. He beat Henry Clay in the general election and his vice-president was George M. Dallas.
Polk served as the 11th president from 1845-1849. Texas became the 28th state in his first year in office and he settled the Oregon boundary dispute in his second year. The biggest event during his presidency was the Mexican–American War, which was ended by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. He died three months after his presidency ended due to cholera (the shortest retirement of any U.S. president).
Polk married Sarah Childress in 1824. During his presidency, she was nicknamed the “Presidentress” due to being very involved. She was a devout Presbyterian who forbade dancing and music on Sundays. The dry entertainment led to another of her nicknames, “Sahara Sarah.” She always wore black in public after Polk died and was a widow for 42 years (a First Lady record).
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
POETRY & PLACES
It's the geographic word in the title of a Robert Burns poem about "the mountains... covered with snow... the straths & green valleys below"
***HIGHLANDS***
The poet Robert "Rabbie" Burns was born in Scotland in 1759. A farmer by day, he had his first collection Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, published in 1786. Also known as the Kilmarnock Edition, it included works such as “To a Mouse.” In that poem, Burns apologized to the “wee” title animal and referred to it as a “cow'rin tim'rous beastie.” A line from the poem inspired the title of John Steinbeck's novella Of Mice and Men.
“To a Mouse” is not to be confused with another Burns poem “To a Louse,” which is named for a small parasitic insect that lives on the skin. The speaker of the poem sees one of those creatures on a lady's bonnet at church and declares "O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as others see us! / It wad frae monie a blunder free us.” The poem uses a form of verse called the Burns stanza (six lines, AAABAB), which is also known as standard Habbie (named for an earlier Scottish piper).
Other notable poems by Burns include “Tam o' Shanter,” which inspired the name of a bonnet worn by men. In that mock-heroic poem, the title character encounters a coven of witches and narrowly escapes. Burns also wrote the song “A Red, Red Rose,” which begins “O my Luve is like a red, red rose / That’s newly sprung in June / O my Luve is like the melody / That’s sweetly played in tune.” Burns also revised and updated “Auld Lang Syne” (meaning “Old Long Since”), which many people sing to ring in the new year.
The work mentioned in the clue is the 1789 poem/song “My Heart's in the Highlands.” Its chorus features the lines “My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here / My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer / Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe / My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.” Burns also wrote a poem “addressed” to a haggis. To learn more about that awful offal dish, you can check out Daily Double #1 from this past recap: https://jaqr.substack.com/p/jaqr-october-1-2023
FINAL JEOPARDY #3
SPORTS TEAMS
Fittingly, this team was born on November 1, 1966, the day the franchise was awarded
***NEW ORLEANS SAINTS***
The New Orleans Saints are an NFC South team that play home games in the Caesars Superdome. The team’s first season was in 1967, and it took them 20 years to achieve a season with a winning record. Their starting quarterback for many of those seasons was Archie Manning (father of Cooper, Peyton, and Eli and grandfather of Cooper's son Arch). During the 1970 season, Saints kicker Tom Dempsey made a 63-yard field goal, which was the NFL record all the way until 2013 (Matt Prater hit a 64-yearder). In 1999, while coached by Chicago Bears legend Mike Ditka, the team traded eight draft picks to Washington in exchange for rookie running back Ricky Williams. The trade has been called one of the worst of all-time.
The team won its only Super Bowl (XLIV = 44) at the end of the 2009 season. The Saints beat Peyton Manning and the Colts 31-17, and sealed the game with a Tracy Porter pick-six late in the fourth quarter. A turning point in the game came at the beginning of the second half, when the Saints were successful on a surprise onside kick. They were coached by Sean Payton and led by starting quarterback Drew Brees, who won the Super Bowl MVP Award. In 2012, the NFL announced that coaches on the Saints gave players financial rewards for injuring opponents (“Bountygate”).
In a January 2018 playoff game known as the Minneapolis Miracle, the Saints lost to the Vikings 29-24 on the last play of the game (a 61-yard TD pass from Case Keenum to Stefon Diggs in which Marcus Williams missed a tackle). About one year later, the Saints lost the 2018 NFC Championship Game (played in January 2019) to the Rams 26-23. That game is remembered for Nickell Robey-Coleman’s blatant helmet-to-helmet hit on Tommylee Lewis that should have been a pass interference penalty, but wasn’t called. During the 2019 season, wide receiver Michael Thomas set the NFL record for most receptions in a season (149).
The team’s current players include quarterback Derek Carr, running back Alvin Kamara (tied an NFL record in 2020 by scoring six rushing touchdowns in one game), utility player Taysom Hill, defensive end Cameron Jordan (future Hall of Famer, probably), and safety Tyrann Mathieu (nicknamed “The Honey Badger”). Some of the team’s players who are in the NFL Hall of Fame include offensive tackle Willie Roaf and the linebackers Rickey Jackson and Sam Mills (both of whom were part of a unit nicknamed the Dome Patrol). Some of the team’s other notable players include safety Steve Gleason, who is remembered for a blocked punt early on in the first home game in the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina. Gleason announced that he was battling ALS in 2011.
DAILY DOUBLE #1
MEXICAN STATE CAPITALS
Mérida is the capital of this southeastern peninsular state
