They’ve been mentioning this on the show, but I forgot all about it until today. It always used to be in January. I don’t know why they moved it to October, but if there was less interest this year maybe that increases my chance of an audition. I would have taken the Tuesday test if I’d remembered, since it was at an earlier time. Might be for the best, though; found some discussion on the web that today’s was the easiest of the week.
I found a website a bit later that had a list of answers. Assuming that list is correct, I got 40/50, which should be a passing score. Now I just wait for an e-mail.
For the answers, you mean? I found them here (third post, and click on the spoiler tag). I can’t guarantee they’re right, but look pretty good based on what I remember.
I’d like to find another list that also has the questions. There was one that I misinterpreted and I’d be curious to see the exact wording.
I took it on Tuesday, and I believe that I got 41 right. Blanked on where the 2008 Olympics were (I said London, even though I knew it was wrong).
I saw a lot of people online saying this test was particularly hard, but I didn’t really find it harder than other online tests that I’ve taken. I’ve gotten called in for in-person auditions twice, but never gotten farther than that.
I found the one I misinterpreted. The category was Continents.
“Of the 7 continents, it’s second in size.”
My brain went “okay, I know Australia is the smallest, but what’s the second smallest?” I answered “Europe”. Afterward I realized that they probably meant second largest. I’m probably the only person who misread it like that, but I think the clue could have been better written.
44 is pretty damn good. I blanked on the 14-line poem one, and there were one or two others I should have gotten, but I’d be thrilled with 44.
I got really lucky on the Thursday test, lots of categories lined up nicely with my knowledge.
I definitely missed the third virgin island and the second largest continent (I said North America… stupid Mercator projections!) and the Bohemian capital, but I may have gotten all the other 47 right, depending on forgiveness for bad spelling, etc.
I took Wednesday’s test, and did worse than I had done in the past. (I have made it to 2 in-person interviews). I had an off day. Got 34, and generally 35 is believed to be the score needed to get to a live tryout. :smack:
It’s odd. I got the third Virgin Island one and the Bohemian capital, and would have gotten the continent one if I’d read it right. On the music one I didn’t have a clue.
I missed Love Conquers All, Dave Eggers, Jason Bourne, Twenty-One Pilots, the tree on the flag of Lebanon, the president born in West Branch, Iowa, and a few more.
Still, pretty happy with it. Good enough for an audition, I think, unless I’m in their “never, ever have this person on the show” book after last time.
The next step is that you get an e-mail inviting you to an in-person audition. You reply to that e-mail to reserve a spot. I made it once; it was at a conference room in a downtown hotel. Could be up to a year, I think. If you can find out when they’re doing auditions near you, that tells you something. A few years ago I aced the test, but a local friend of mine got an audition invite and I didn’t, so I knew I wasn’t picked.
In past years didn’t the sign-up process ask what city you’d want to audition in, from a list of places they’d be visiting in the coming year? I didn’t see that this time, except for a place to enter your zip code.
Oddly enough, afterwards I got an e-mail telling me that I had completed the test, which I didn’t doubt at all. I have no idea why they sent it. I don’t know if I made it to the next stage, but I’ve done it twice before.
That happened to me too. The subject line said “Congratulations!,” so I thought I was being called for an audition. And then the email was the same screen that came up after the test was over. I, too, have auditioned twice before and have had to cancel two auditions because of unavailability.
