# I just finished taking the Jeopardy! test **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 7, 2018, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-taking-the-jeopardy-test/810162 "2018-03-07T01:24:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jack\_Burden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Jack\_Burden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Burden)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-taking-the-jeopardy-test/810162/21 "2018-03-13T01:43:39Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Thanks, all. I could only do Thursday, but a friend needed help, and I was kicking myself for missing the test. But if you smartypantses didn’t ace it, no way would I’d’ve been good enough to move on. > > Guess I can stop practicing my Witty Repartee for when I’m meeting Alex on the set… “I’m sorry, Al was it? I’mma cut off your obsequiousness right there. Could you frame your adulation and admiration of my awesomeness in the form of a question?” Ironic you should say that, “Repartee” was one of the correct answers on Thursday’s test. Missed that one having guessed “Touché” instead, but got 37 others right. Hope that’s enough and I get picked in the random draw for audition. Any idea if city selection affects odds to be called for audition? ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-taking-the-jeopardy-test/810162/22 "2018-03-13T05:07:04Z")
> [@Jack\_Burden](#): > > Ironic you should say that, “Repartee” was one of the correct answers on Thursday’s test. Missed that one having guessed “Touché” instead, but got 37 others right. Hope that’s enough and I get picked in the random draw for audition. Any idea if city selection affects odds to be called for audition? I think _touché_ was the correct response. There was some speculation on the unofficial Jeopardy message board whether _repartee_ might also be acceptable, but most posters agreed that _touché_ was the intended response. That was question 48 of the Pacific test (Thursday, March 8). > [@](#): > > This word from fencing is used to acknowledge a valid criticism or a witty point ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-taking-the-jeopardy-test/810162/23 "2018-03-13T12:52:31Z")
Yeah, based on that clue, the correct answer has got to be _Touché_. I would count “Repartee” as incorrect. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Burden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Jack\_Burden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Burden)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-taking-the-jeopardy-test/810162/24 "2018-03-13T23:26:05Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > I think _touché_ was the correct response. There was some speculation on the unofficial Jeopardy message board whether _repartee_ might also be acceptable, but most posters agreed that _touché_ was the intended response. That was question 48 of the Pacific test (Thursday, March 8). I’m glad to hear that. A website I checked shortly after had it as _repartee_, but obviously that’s nothing official. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-taking-the-jeopardy-test/810162/25 "2018-03-14T00:32:36Z")
> [@Jack\_Burden](#): > > I’m glad to hear that. A website I checked shortly after had it as _repartee_, but obviously that’s nothing official. I’ll tell Alex that he should count both. As a rapier-wielding francophone, I really think either would be correct. (Which means that if I’d gotten that on the show, I would’ve replied “What umm what is… ooh, what’s that word? Oh, what do I say in that situation? Oh, right… ‘I’ve got you now, my pretty’…” Oh, wait…) ---
**Author:** ![Nuveena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@Nuveena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nuveena)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-taking-the-jeopardy-test/810162/26 "2018-03-15T19:17:46Z")
Touché is definitely the correct answer. I believe the speculation on J Board was over riposte not repartee. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2018, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-taking-the-jeopardy-test/810162/27 "2018-03-17T08:43:45Z")
> [@Nuveena](#): > > Touché is definitely the correct answer. I believe the speculation on J Board was over riposte not repartee. Why would anyone speculate that? A riposte doesn’t acknowledge anything. Unless one wishes to argue that bothering to respond counts as an acknowledgement that a valid point had been made (and that’s a little convoluted for _Jeopardy!)_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-taking-the-jeopardy-test/810162.md?page=1)