Glad I’m not the only one who feels like they choked. I am sure I got about half. Less sure about all the rest. Several were gimmes. Is there literally anyone who would take this test that doesn’t watch or is at least aware of Game of Thrones?
I put Bewitched for one and realized with 2 seconds left it was Wicked (missed the question said Broadway). That miss is going to haunt me.
On the other hand based on what I see here, my pulled out of my ass guess of Patterson for the author was right.
I think there was at least one sports question, the one about snowboarding in the half-pipe.
I put November for the cruelest month, but it was apparently April. Which proves to me that Eliot was high.
Strauss was waltzes. I sure hope they didn’t want me to specify junior or senior.
Oh, boo. It said “of the 3 on the Horn of Africa” instead of “4 in the Horn of Africa”. I put Ethiopia but I guess it’s Somalia…
Missed 6 in the first half (posted so far), and I know the second half was worse.
Wow, that was brutal. I think I only got between 20 and 25. I used a screen capture util while taking the test (jpeg snaps, not video, unfortunately, so had to CTRL-SHIFT-W on each page to catch it; annoying) - I caught most of the Qs and most of my As.
Brutal.
This. Very much, this.
Oh well (sigh), I won’t be quitting my day job anytime soon.
Wicked! :smack:
Jeopardy Rule #1: The CATEGORY is as important as the question!
The one that totally flummoxed me (other than the name of the “Girl With/Who” trilogy) was the one about the 1947 Margaret Wise Brown book. I had NO ANSWER at all, not even a hint. Apparently, she wrote “Goodnight, Moon”.
Having a one year old helps every now and then, jayjay. I’ve read that book almost nightly for the past year. 
Now I’m kicking myself over Pony Express (said transcontintntal RR) and Edward VIII (just blanked).
25/35 so far… gonna be pretty damn close to 35 I think, probably just under.
I was 26 of 35 and feeling okay, but now I’m 27 of 40! Forgot about that bad stretch from 35-40.
but I also got Goodnight Moon, thanks to Owen, my 2 year old!
They’re all up and I got 35 of 50. I’ll take it!
Blech, missed a few I thought I had right too. Bavarian chocolate cake apparently has raspberries, not cherries (should have been Black Forest). And I guess Peat is the 50% carbon stuff, not soil. And it’s unclear if Noble will work for the gasses or it should be “inert”.
So, somewhere between 33 and 35, I think. More likely 33. Maybe next year.
I either got 43 right, 42 right or 41 right (depending on whether they take Ethiopia and/or “noble gases”, rather than Somalia or “inert gases”).
Great job. I think even best-case I would have only got 3 or 4 more. Did significantly better the one time I got called (I think I got 38 that year).
Cool. Nice going.
My pretest studying did help me some though. Amongst other things I reviewed a list of British royalty which gave me the answer Edward.
Only got 25. Significant step backward from last time.
Ah well. Maybe next year.
U.S. PRESIDENTS
He preceded FDR as president
BOOKS IN THE NEWS
“All In” by Paula Broadwell is subtitled “The Education of” this man
WOMEN’S FIRSTS
In 1970 Antonia Novello got her M.D. from the U of Puerto Rico; in 1990 she became the first woman in this job
COUNTRY SINGERS
In 2012 this CMA co-host and hubby of Kimberly Williams had a hit with “Southern Comfort Zone”
ON THE MAP
It’s the biggest of the three countries on the Horn of Africa
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
God told him to sacrifice his son Isaac
ZOOLOGY
This order includes gorillas, lemurs, and, oh yes, humans
POETRY
In “The Waste Land”, Eliot calls this “the cruellest month”
ARCHITECTURE
Balcony sections include the loge and this, from the Latin for “middle”
THE AGES OF MAN
In the prehistory of Europe, this “Age” known for its tools followed Stone and preceded Iron
ZODIAC RHYME TIME
A bullish group of singers
U.S. STATES
Administratively, this state uses parishes instead of counties
CABLE TV
Several families fight for control of Westeros on this HBO series
NEWSPAPERS
Now online-only, this Boston paper still runs one religious article each day
U.S. MUSEUMS
Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks” is a highlight of the Art Institute of this city
BESTSELLING AUTHORS
“1st to Die” kicked off the “Women’s Murder Club” series by this man who rules the bestseller lists
THE ELEMENTS
Neon and other gases got this collective name because it was believed they could not form compounds
FOOD
Named for a German region, it’s a rich chocolate cake with a cream filling and cherries
19TH CENTURY AMERICA
This service began operating between St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California in 1860
BROADWAY MUSICALS
The logo for this show is its name with a a green witch on a broomstick over the “I”
SHAKESPEARE
She’s the wife of “Othello”
STATE SYMBOLS
This tree appears in the center of South Carolina’s flag
LET’S HAVE A “BALL”
To prevent someone from joining a group by voting against him
JAPAN
Though many U.S. military installations still remain, this prefecture was returned to Japan in 1972
PHILOSOPHY
In the “Ethics”, Spinoza wrote that “nature abhors” one of these
BEFORE & AFTER
Classic candy bar that became the second female Supreme Court justice
FOREIGN HOLIDAYS
It’s the palindromic name for the Vietnamese New Year
ART STYLES
This ornate style in 18th century art and design was a reaction against the weightier Baroque era
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
This 1947 Margaret Wise Brown book was among USA Today’s 100 top sellers of 2011
MEDICINE
A goiter is an enlargement of this gland
CELEBRITIES
In 2012 this “Hunger Games” star won new acclaim for her role in “Silver Linings Playbook”
8-LETTER WORDS
Adjective for animals who live in trees
ON THE PHONE
It’s the “Store” you’d visit to get GarageBand or Keynote for your Apple iPhone
AUTHORESS! AUTHORESS!
2003’s “Blood Canticle” was another of her vampire novels
BRITISH KINGS
The eighth king of this name gave up his throne in 1936
THE LAW
It’s the formal charge issued by a grand jury saying there’s enough evidence to have a trial
NOT A STATE CAPITAL
It’s the seat of the University of Arizona
COMPOSERS
“The Emperor” and “Viennese Blood” are two of his 19th century waltzes
TRILOGIES
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is part of this timely trilogy
WINTER ACTIVITIES
Dude, I’m usually goofy footed but I went fakie & grabbed big air off the half-pipe in this sport invented in the '60s
SKYWATCHERS
In the 1500s, this Polish astronomer came up with the idea that the earth moves
DOUBLE “E” WORDS
This adjective means polite & refined
SCIENCE FICTION
23 publishers rejected his book “Dune” before it became a bestseller
FOOTWEAR
Four-letter word for a low cut women’s shoe with a high heel
RECENT FILMS
The title of this film refers to James Bond’s family estate in Scotland
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
In 1781 he took command of the naval ship America
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
This Balkan country’s name literally means “black mountain”
STOCK SYMBOLS
It makes perfect sense that these three letters are the stock symbol of the world’s largest package delivery company
THE EARTH AROUND US
Compressed, partially decomposed vegetation with about a 50% carbon content
ESSAYS
Her essay “A Room of One’s Own” argues that intellectual freedom requires financial freedom
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
You got the same test I did, I think. Did it ask about creatures that live in trees, and vampire novels?