# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/81 "2013-01-10T17:54:04Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > 1 Herbert Hoover > 2 General David Petraeus > 3 Surgeon General > 4 Brad Paisley > 5 possibly Somalia or Ethiopia, not sure > 6 Abraham > 7 Primates > 8 April > 9 mezzanine > 10 Bronze Age > 11 taurus chorus > 12 Louisiana > 13 Game of Thrones > 14 Christian Science Monitor > 15 Chicago > 16 James Patterson > 17 inert gases (not sure if noble gases is acceptable as well) > 18 black forest cake > 19 Pony Express > 20 Wicked > 21 Desdemona > 22 palmetto > 23 blackball > 24 Okinawa > 25 a vacuum > 26 Baby Ruth Bader Ginsburg > 27 Tet > 28 rococo > 29 Goodnight Moon > 30 thyroid > 31 Jennifer Lawrence > 32 arboreal > 33 App Store > 34 Anne Rice > 35 Edward > 36 indictment > 37 Tucson > 38 Johann Strauss > 39 Millennium Trilogy > 40 snowboarding > 41 Copernicus > 42 genteel > 43 Frank Herbert > 44 pump > 45 Skyfall > 46 John Paul Jones > 47 Montenegro > 48 UPS > 49 peat > 50 Virginia Woolf 20 out of 50. Oh well, back to being an armchair Jeopardy contestant. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/82 "2013-01-10T19:46:54Z")
Yeah, this was bad, got at least 22 possibly 24… still YUK! ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/83 "2013-01-10T20:10:30Z")
Yikes, glad I didn’t take the Central test, I would’ve been lucky to get 30 of those! ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/84 "2013-01-10T20:17:24Z")
Looking back I would have gotten at least three more right if I had just noticed the Categories quicker. Even though I did pretty poorly (28 out of 50), I have to admit it was fun. I kind of wish they did this weekly even just for the hell of it. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/85 "2013-01-11T02:36:12Z")
OK, I’m signed up for the first time ever. The test tonight is a little later than I’d prefer (11 p.m. EST), but I missed the first two nights. I actually found out about the online test due to a promo during the show yesterday. I’ve thought about trying out for the show since college (\>20 years ago). ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/86 "2013-01-11T02:42:36Z")
> [@robby](#): > > OK, I’m signed up for the first time ever. The test tonight is a little later than I’d prefer (11 p.m. EST), but I missed the first two nights. > > I actually found out about the online test due to a promo during the show yesterday. I’ve thought about trying out for the show since college (\>20 years ago). Best of luck! Take the Tuesday and Wednesday tests for practice (both are located in this thread). ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/87 "2013-01-11T03:44:03Z")
Hey, it’s 16 minutes to the hour, but the timer says Test Starts in 19:00. (???) ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/88 "2013-01-11T03:58:16Z")
Yeah, it’s two minutes of now, but the timer says five. \ ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/89 "2013-01-11T04:06:58Z")
Mine just crashed after question 8. I got a grey box with a (!) in it and now I can’t resume the test. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/90 "2013-01-11T04:10:38Z")
How did I do? Let me count the ways: 1. Terrible 2. Awful 3. Embarrassingly bad 4. Stupendously thickheaded … You get the picture. 😛 No audition for me again! ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/91 "2013-01-11T04:13:08Z")
Wow, I absolutely ate shit on this one (tonight’s). Worst I’ve ever done. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/92 "2013-01-11T04:13:47Z")
Dunno how well I did this time. I had to skip at least four questions, and there were another three or four I had absolutely no idea about. 38/50, maybe? Seems like they’re making the tests harder to compensate for more people taking them. Interestingly enough, though, the Shakespeare one which I took a total wild-ass guess on, I turned out to have the right answer. (Twelfth Night) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/93 "2013-01-11T04:15:45Z")
I got about 39-40. Like previous tests, it was incredible heavy on literature and art, with no sports questions at all that I recall. Not a good mix for me. Having said, that I was lucky I took today’s in the sense that I would have done far, far worse on the Tuesday and Wednesday tests. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/94 "2013-01-11T04:15:47Z")
Wow…I feel better about this one then I’ve ever felt about taking one of these before. (…he says, having not seen his actual score.) ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/95 "2013-01-11T04:15:55Z")
Well, fuck. I was cautiously optimistic after getting a 45 on Tuesday’s test and a 36 on Wednesday’s test. But that sound you heard from the Midwest was the sound of me crashing and burning on the one that counted. If I broke 30 I would be surprised. That was a sickening combination of stuff outside my wheelhouse, and blanking on several answers. Shit. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/96 "2013-01-11T04:16:59Z")
Okay… Easiest part of that test was listening to the theme music. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/97 "2013-01-11T04:17:12Z")
Tonight’s was unbelievably difficult. I had to leave 4-5 blank, and guessed randomly on many others. I’d be shocked if I got even half right. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/98 "2013-01-11T04:18:20Z")
What was the lizard answer? Also the captain of that damn submarine? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/99 "2013-01-11T04:19:34Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > What was the lizard answer? Also the captain of that damn submarine? That would be Nemo and the Komodo dragon. I, for one, had absolutely no idea who wrote Tosca, who’s face was on a Pepsi can last year, who wrote North of Boston (turns out it was Robert Frost), or who Garren Flynn (?) even is, let alone the title character of the book he wrote. I also took a wild guess on what Kate Middleton was hospitalized for - I knew she was pregnant, so I said “nausea”. Wikipedia informs me that that’s pretty much what “hyperemesis gravidarium” is, so score one there. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217/100 "2013-01-11T04:19:46Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > What was the lizard answer? Also the captain of that damn submarine? I think kimodo dragon and captain Nemo. ETA: Ninja’d AND misspelled. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2013-jeopardy-online-test-thread/645217.md?page=6)