# 2013 Jeopardy! online test thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 26, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217 "2012-12-26T20:31:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/41 "2013-01-09T06:34:20Z")
I’m registered for tomorrow, 6pm Pacific time. Just for fun, I’ll try it. I loosely kept score above and was about 30-35. Ish. ---
**Author:** ![candide](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/46a35a/32.png) [@candide](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/candide)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/42 "2013-01-09T06:50:17Z")
> [@echo7tango](#): > > I’m registered for tomorrow, 6pm Pacific time. Just for fun, I’ll try it. > > I loosely kept score above and was about 30-35. Ish. Endeavor to Persevere! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/43 "2013-01-09T08:00:33Z")
> [@candide](#): > > Endeavor to Persevere! 🙂 Will do! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/44 "2013-01-10T01:50:17Z")
Tonight’s test starts in 10 minutes. I think others are taking it, too. Good luck to us! Good luck to those taking it tomorrow! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/45 "2013-01-10T02:16:15Z")
As usual, I have no idea how I did, but I suspect it wasn’t good enough. I forgot Ruth Ginsberg’s last name (Before & After, should have been Baby Ruth Ginsberg), and that James Patterson wrote Women’s Murder Club. My guess of Anne Rice was apparently correct, as was the vague memory I had that Kimberly Williams was married to Brad Paisley. I know I left a few others blank and can’t remember what they were now. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/46 "2013-01-10T02:17:41Z")
I blanked on a few too - including Anne Rice and Jennifer Lawrence. Had a good run at the start. Messed up Ruth Bader as well, thinking the candy bar should come second. Got Patterson wrong, and Frank Herbert (wrote Frank Howard I think). Not as well as I did last time, when I actually got a call, I’m afraid. Were there 50 questions before? I seem to recall fewer. Did randomly get Paisley, if that one is correct. Total guess there. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/47 "2013-01-10T02:18:41Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > Were there 50 questions before? I seem to recall fewer. It’s always been 50. The scuttlebutt is that you need 35 correct to pass on to consideration for an audition. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/48 "2013-01-10T02:18:50Z")
Yeah, I had a few blanks too. 40 at best. Bummer. Wait yet another year I suppose. Missed Patterson and Frank Herbert. Poop. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/49 "2013-01-10T02:18:52Z")
Ugh. I would have done much better doing last night’s test. Anyone got a handy link to the Q’s? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/50 "2013-01-10T02:21:19Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > Ugh. I would have done much better doing last night’s test. > > Anyone got a handy link to the Q’s? Probably not yet. The Sony forums usually have them up within an hour of the test, and poster-researched answers soon after. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/51 "2013-01-10T02:21:31Z")
Well, I just completely borked that. About halfway through, there was a question that I knew the answer, but couldn’t call it up. All of a sudden, I just went in the tank, and missed like five in a row that I knew. God, I feel like Tony Romo. Blech. ---
**Author:** ![Othersider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@Othersider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Othersider)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/52 "2013-01-10T02:21:41Z")
I really blew this one. I’ll be surprised if I got more than 30. D’oh. ---
**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/53 "2013-01-10T02:22:03Z")
Lucky if I got half, but who knows? I, too, would love to see the questions to get a better idea. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/54 "2013-01-10T02:22:30Z")
Took it. Probably tanked, but taking it is a thing I do. I remember taking it live once writing answers with golf pencils in A.C. and once with pens in a conference room in Philly. Actually, the scariest part would be if I ever passed… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/55 "2013-01-10T02:22:31Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Probably not yet. The Sony forums usually have them up within an hour of the test, and poster-researched answers soon after. Thanks. Weirdly, I got Frank Herbert and James Patterson, the ones everyone else missed! ---
**Author:** ![Rudiger\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rudiger\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rudiger_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/56 "2013-01-10T02:26:07Z")
Sonsabitches! I got 36 of last night’s right when I looked at the questions above, but I’ll be lucky if I got 30 on my real one tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Othersider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@Othersider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Othersider)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/57 "2013-01-10T02:26:47Z")
People are already on it [here](http://jboard.tv/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1137) ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/58 "2013-01-10T02:27:10Z")
Also missed “the cruellest month”, but got Woolfe (which was a guess). Missed the waltzes, which is sad. Were there zero sports questions? ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/59 "2013-01-10T02:28:34Z")
Other misses: SC tree on the flag (which I really should have known) and the name of the Dragon Tattoo series (which, really???) ---
**Author:** ![Othersider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@Othersider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Othersider)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/60 "2013-01-10T02:30:09Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > Also missed “the cruellest month”, but got Woolfe (which was a guess). Missed the waltzes, which is sad. > > Were there zero sports questions? I don’t remember any. Shame, I rarely miss those. > [@Jas09](#): > > Other misses: SC tree on the flag (which I really should have known) and the name of the Dragon Tattoo series (which, really???) Apparently the Millennium series. I didn’t know it, either. My wife loved those books, and she’d never heard the name, either. Weird question. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217.md?page=4)