Jeopardy Online Test Discussion

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I just finished Tuesday’s test. I think I did really well. I got 40 easy, possibly more. Much better than the 25 or 26 I put up last year.

But I missed the one for the 1800s invented language, which I know, but still hasn’t come to me…

Esperanto! Dammit!

Questions and Answers will appear here at the Jeopardy site soon.

How’d you do?

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Blanked on Esperanto, freelance, Fergie, the female mystery writer, and the sports question.
I believe I got the rest right.

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The “fierce” singer is Beyonce Knowles. (Missed that one!)

And the mystery writer is Patricia Cornwell. (Totally blanked on it!)

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I know there are a few I missed, like “Out of Africa,” but I’m astisfied. These things are such a rush it’s hard to tell how you did.

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I missed Lake Ontario, too. Oh well.

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There was a sports question? Did I black out for part of the test?

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The Caveliers player, right?

Lebron James? I think I got that one right.

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I feel pretty good. Probably in the mid-40s somewhere.

Missed the “Out of Africa” one, Patricia Cornwell, and at least one other (can’t remember which). And a few I’m not sure of.

But my brain seemed to be cranking along pretty good. Even some that I didn’t know right away, like the ice cream flavor, came to me.

That’s right, I mised the postal-abbreviation-is-preposition one. I couldn’t run through the midwestern states or prepositions fast enough.

And Simon Legree. So I’m at 46 or below, but I don’t think it’s by much.

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I forgot to sign up in time for tonight’s test, so I’m taking it Thursday for the “Pacific” crowd.

Last time I tried to take it, my browser never loaded the test window. I got the countdown window after I logged in, but when the test was supposed to load…nothing happened. I have the updated Flash (the Jeopardy site even said so!) so maybe my pop-up blocker wasn’t disabled like they said.

Did anyone else have problems using Firefox for the test? Should I go to IE to be safe?

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And for some reason I thought Simon Legree was a character in Oliver Twist. Oops.

Oh well. The more I think about it, the more I think I bombed on this test.

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Wow, I really botched that one. I couldn’t get the Mayflower or Lake Ontario (answered blank and Lake Huron, respectively), and thought of “Mayflower” just as time ran out. What a frustrating quiz, probably got about 25 correct.

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I got cornwell at the last second. The post just panned her new book.

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On the bright side, I totally guessed ‘Jupiter’ on the Mozart symphony!

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This brings up a question: when a person is generally well-known by their first name, as Beyonce is, is only her first name acceptable in Jeopardy (either in the test or in-game) as her last name would be? (Not counting one-namers like Madonna.) What about Ichiro (Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners, who actually has his FIRST name on his jersey)?

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What was the Fergie question?

As did I. I WAGged Michigan.

The postal abbreviation one was Indiana, right? I put Catcher in the Rye for the Legree one… was drawing a total blank.

Oops. Thought that was Venus.

I’m guesstimating my score at 40.

ETA: What the heck is “baked Alaska”?

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It was Patricia Cornwell? Lucky guess then. And my daughter thought the “Fierce” singer was Fergie. (I had nothing for that one.)

But I am sure I got others wrong that I don’t know.

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I got James Madison wrong. I think I put McKinley or something.

ETA: Freelance! :smack: I WAGged “mercenary”. Revising my estimate to 38.

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I know I got at least 10 wrong. I was in the middle of typing “Scheherazade” and didn’t finish the “de”, so I don’t know if I will get credit for that one.

Was the ice cream “Rocky Road”?

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Yep.

I missed Californium. The questions are popping up in my brain in a weird order. I typed and accidentally deleted “Scheherazade” just in time to end up with a blank.

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Presumably accurate transcript of the questions is up at J_B’s link:

http://boards.sonypictures.com/boards/showthread.php?t=39870&page=2