# It's Jeopardy online test time! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 12, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-jeopardy-online-test-time/524697 "2010-01-12T19:22:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-jeopardy-online-test-time/524697/41 "2010-01-27T04:54:44Z")
I think I got 35. I was hoping I got a few better than that, especially since I went on a really nice run for most of the first half. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-jeopardy-online-test-time/524697/42 "2010-01-27T05:54:56Z")
I didn;t sign up, I would have really embarrassed myself. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2010, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-jeopardy-online-test-time/524697/43 "2010-01-27T05:56:04Z")
I think I’m a 35. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-jeopardy-online-test-time/524697/44 "2010-01-27T08:43:44Z")
I got 30 and I’m still kicking myself over collarbone ---
**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 27, 2010, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-jeopardy-online-test-time/524697/45 "2010-01-27T12:16:58Z")
Ah well…that was nowhere as good as I had thought it was – 29. Foo. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-jeopardy-online-test-time/524697/46 "2010-01-27T12:22:29Z")
I’m glad I missed that one. A bunch of things a bunch of things that would have been on the tip of my tongue, but I doubt I would have been able to come up with in time. All in all seems a fair bit harder than most of thier online tests(at least based on my particular knowledge set) plus I would have probably run out of time trying to figure out how to spell Kazakhstan and Gendarme. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-jeopardy-online-test-time/524697/47 "2010-01-27T14:23:39Z")
Crap! I missed it. Can I take one of the other time zone slots? ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-jeopardy-online-test-time/524697/48 "2010-01-27T14:30:13Z")
I got 29. Probably could have gotten 32-33 if it wasn’t for that stupid clock. And I can’t believe I got “Oberon” but missed “Elway”. What a nancy-boy I am. ---
**Author:** ![MilTan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@MilTan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MilTan)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-jeopardy-online-test-time/524697/49 "2010-01-27T14:47:55Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I think I got 35. I was hoping I got a few better than that, especially since I went on a really nice run for most of the first half. Yeah, me too: through the first 25 questions, I had gotten, I think, 22 right. Then I basically collapsed in the second half of the test. ---
**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 27, 2010, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-jeopardy-online-test-time/524697/50 "2010-01-27T15:05:19Z")
> [@MilTan](#): > > Yeah, me too: through the first 25 questions, I had gotten, I think, 22 right. Then I basically collapsed in the second half of the test. Same here – nearly all my misses were in the latter part of the test. A real smackdown when you’re halfway through and thinking “Oh, I’m in the effing _zone_!” ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-jeopardy-online-test-time/524697/51 "2010-01-27T15:37:36Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Same here – nearly all my misses were in the latter part of the test. A real smackdown when you’re halfway through and thinking “Oh, I’m in the effing _zone_!” I just went back and checked and that was my downfall as well. 19 of the first 25 but only 11 of the next 25. Ouch. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-jeopardy-online-test-time/524697/52 "2010-01-27T16:23:56Z")
So did anyone else just put “Sean Connery” or “Burt Reynolds” whenever you had no idea of the answer? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-jeopardy-online-test-time/524697/53 "2010-01-27T16:35:45Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > So did anyone else just put “Sean Connery” or “Burt Reynolds” whenever you had no idea of the answer? I used “Penis Mightier” ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-jeopardy-online-test-time/524697/54 "2010-01-27T21:05:25Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > I got 29. Probably could have gotten 32-33 if it wasn’t for that stupid clock. And I can’t believe I got “Oberon” but missed “Elway”. What a nancy-boy I am. Aaaah that was me too, but I only got 22 or so… fail. ---
**Author:** ![Kingspades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecae2f/32.png) [@Kingspades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kingspades)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-jeopardy-online-test-time/524697/55 "2010-01-27T21:17:38Z")
I did pretty well: 40 by my count. I’m kicking myself over missing avocado. I went completely blank on it, and there were two of them sitting on the kitchen counter not ten feet behind me! On the other hand I got Lady Gaga on a completely blind guess, so I had karma to pay off. I did make it to the in-person audition in 2007 after taking the online test. Perhaps I’ll get another crack this year. Fingers crossed! ---
**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 27, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-jeopardy-online-test-time/524697/56 "2010-01-27T21:43:28Z")
How many people got #23 correct (popular blog)? Assuming “Boing Boing” was correct, I got that one (I subscribe to that site) but that seemed pretty obscure for this kind of test. The only other question I thought equally obscure was #38, the South American desert (Atacama). ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-jeopardy-online-test-time/524697/57 "2010-01-28T01:58:54Z")
Well about 5 minutes left till today’s starts up, so log in quick if ya forgot. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-jeopardy-online-test-time/524697/58 "2010-01-28T02:03:54Z")
Let’s roll! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-jeopardy-online-test-time/524697/59 "2010-01-28T02:14:08Z")
I had no idea who Harlow and [whoever] Madden’s mother is, still don’t- will look up. **ETA: Nicole Richie**. I _never_ would have gotten it. I knew she had a kid (apparently two) but had no idea who baby-daddy was other than “not Levi Johnston”. I thought San Francisco was the western terminus of the Union Pacific, but was loathe to answer it since I’d used that for the Assisi question. Will look it up now. **Yea! This was right.** Not sure I got Alice Sebold in on time, or The Lost Symbol (which I blanked on and got in on the bell). Generally I think I did pretty well though. Anyone know where to find a list of the questions? ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-jeopardy-online-test-time/524697/60 "2010-01-28T02:15:01Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I had no idea who Harlow and [whoever] Madden’s mother is, still don’t- will look up. > > I thought San Francisco was the western terminus of the Union Pacific, but was loathe to answer it since I’d used that for the Assisi question. Will look it up now. > > Not sure I got Alice Sebold in on time, or The Lost Symbol (which I blanked on and got in on the bell). > > Generally I think I did pretty well though. Anyone know where to find a list of the questions? I’m looking now… I think the Madden’s kids are Nicole Richie’s Blanked on both Siebold and Lost Symbol, but I did okay, I think… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-jeopardy-online-test-time/524697.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-jeopardy-online-test-time/524697.md?page=4)