# Jeopardy Online Test Discussion **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 28, 2009, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321 "2009-01-28T01:17:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/61 "2009-01-29T02:13:26Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > I know nothing about literature and poetry…and I had at least two poetry questions, and four or five literary questions! I KNEW the whole Tyger, tyger burning bright poem… but could NOT remember the poets name! ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/62 "2009-01-29T02:14:06Z")
Wow. Don’t I feel dumb. Had to pass on four questions, and shot-in-the-dark guessed three of them. Man. Serious blow to the intellectual ego. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/63 "2009-01-29T02:14:53Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > I KNEW the whole Tyger, tyger burning bright poem… but could NOT remember the poets name! Yeah, I guessed Keats, but it was Blake. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/64 "2009-01-29T02:14:57Z")
Just finished. There were about 4 that i flat out didn’t know and then there were the ones that were 20 seconds away, not 15. (literature) And one that I think i took a flying leap at and guessed right - but I don’t quite remember the question, so I’m either really right or really wrong. I think I got between 35 & 45. I was also thinking “Tyger Tyger burning bright… who the hell wrote you?” I did not guess Blake. ---
**Author:** ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/65 "2009-01-29T02:15:33Z")
OK, I’ve gotten dumber in the last year. I don’t think I got 35. ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/66 "2009-01-29T02:15:44Z")
I took tonight’s test. \ AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaRRRRghhhhHHHH! Pausing…and taking off again. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaarrrrghhhhh! I had the worst cases of “I KNOW this answer!!!” and going utterly blank. (if I did get the answer for the ‘Tyger’ question right? It’s b/c I kept thinking of _Educating Rita_, knowing I’d finally get to this line: “Did you do Blake at summer school? You weren’t supposed to do Blake at summer school?” Then! I excitedly typed in “blacke” and hit enter before I could fix it.) Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/67 "2009-01-29T02:15:47Z")
I think we don’t get notified of our scores, do we? ---
**Author:** ![DadWagonDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@DadWagonDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DadWagonDriver)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/68 "2009-01-29T02:16:24Z")
Wow… I just sucked royal ass on that! I think I passed on seven, and guessed on a couple others. My top potential score is 40/50; 30-35 wouldn’t surprise me, though. ---
**Author:** ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/69 "2009-01-29T02:16:52Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > I KNEW the whole Tyger, tyger burning bright poem… but could NOT remember the poets name! It wouldn’t come to me either-Robert Blake, that’s right. Crap. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/70 "2009-01-29T02:17:08Z")
I don’t think so, no. Oh, and I had one typed in but didn’t have time to hit enter before time ran out…will they still get it? I got the “ran out of time” boop boop noise. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/71 "2009-01-29T02:17:36Z")
I thought I was doing OK, but the last half-dozen or so killed me ☹ And I _do_ know all the literature ones. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/72 "2009-01-29T02:17:42Z")
Holy crap I did terrible. Not a single Sports question and like 2 pop culture ones, both of which I aced. Tons and tons of poetry and literature that I completely bombed. There wasn’t a single Government question and only a handful of history questions. That was embarrassing. I missed several because I didn’t realize that it rejected a typed in answer if you let time expire without hitting submit. Kinda crappy programming, and I always didn’t notice until half way through that you could hit return and not touch the mouse to submit. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/73 "2009-01-29T02:22:45Z")
I got Blake, but I put Florida down as 3rd largest state. It’s actually 22nd. (The real answer is California, which I’d’ve known if I weren’t in a panic.) Off the top of my head, I also missed the Greek drama one (was it the chorus?), the physics one and, surprisingly to me, the short story one (which was Hemingway). A few others, too. I think I did OK, but not good enough to get interviewed. ETA: The golf one! No clue at all. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/74 "2009-01-29T02:25:23Z")
The answers should be here soon. [http://boards.sonypictures.com/boards/showthread.php?t=39885](http://boards.sonypictures.com/boards/showthread.php?t=39885) ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/75 "2009-01-29T02:29:23Z")
I was also unsure of the astronomy one. I guess Tycho Brahe, but now I think it was Copernicus? Edit: I did get baby bump and Lindsay Lohan. Double edit: Oops, it seems it’s fist bump. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/76 "2009-01-29T02:51:45Z")
Here’s the questions. 1)MONTHS OF THE YEAR Each year, it’s Black History Month 2)RECENT MOVIES “Slumdog Millionaire” is set in this city 3)ROYALTY This British queen outlived her husband by 39 years. 4)LITERARY GENRES An epistolary novel is written in the form of these. 5)DRAMA This group played a major role in early Greek comedy but later only appeared between acts. 6)BIG BUSINESS Murex, Conch, and Clam were names of early tankers owned by this company. 7)FAMILIAR PHRASES A farewell performance is this bird’s “song”. 8)ANIMALS IN LITERATURE The villains in “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” are this type of animal. 9)SIMPLE SCIENCE It’s the type of electrical current that only travels one way. 10)GOLF LINGO It’s the term for shooting a 3 on a par-5 hole. 11)U.S. STATES It’s the third-largest state in the U.S. in area. 12)MILITARY HISTORY This ship sunk December 7th, 1941 was designated a National Landmark in 1989. 13)BACK TO BACH A group of 6 chamberworks from 1721 is known as these concertos. 14)PATRIOTIC SONGS “The Fruited Plain” appears in this 1893 song. 15)CELEBRITIES In 2008 this young actress confirmed her couplehood with Samantha Ronson. 16)VOCABULARY It’s a lady’s dressing table, or a synonym for conceit. 17)ASTRONOMERS Ptolemy’s model was accepted for over 1000 years, until this Polish thinker came along in the 1500’s. 18)RELIGIOUS LEADERS He served as the Archbishop of Krakow in the 1960’s. 19)AMERICAN NOVELS This Upton Sinclair book was instrumental in the passage of the Pure Food & Drug Act 20)THE ART WORLD He died in 1890 having sold 1 painting; in 1990 his Portrait of Dr. Gachet sold for $82.5 million 21)BODIES OF WATER Over a mile deep and 25 million years old, it’s the deepest and oldest lake on earth. 22)THE INTERNET The Mozilla Foundation released this open-source web browser in 2004. 23)BESTSELLERS Completes the title of Elizabeth Gilbert’s tale of a 3-country journey, “Eat, Pray …” 24)THE 20TH CENTURY Country in whose civil war the International Brigades fought in the 1930’s. 25)‘B’ IN GEOLOGY Formed from cooling lava, it’s the most abundant volcanic rock. 26)ARCHITECTURE Many Gothic cathedrals used an arched support called a “flying” this. 27)COLLEGE LATIN 3-word Latin phrase for the highest honors granted on graduation. 28)AMERICAN POEMS Plural title of Joyce Kilmer’s work that admits, “Poems are made by fools like me.” 29)TV THEMES It’s “where everybody knows your name”. 30)THE METRIC SYSTEM 1 inch equals 2.54 of these. 31)THE GRAMMYS The 2007 classical crossover Grammy went to “Love Supreme: the Legacy of” this 1960’s Jazz sax man. 32)BRITISH AUTHORS His “Tom Jones” is one of the first great British novels. 33)19th C. PRESIDENTS In 1823 he declared the America’s off-limits for European colonization. 34)HISPANIC AMERICANS This governor of New Mexico ran for president in 2008. 35)U.S. CITIES It forms a Metropolitan Statistical Area along with Cambridge & Quincy. 36)SHORT STORIES Nick Adams is the protagonist in many of the short stories in this author’s “In Our Time”. 37)THE ELEMENTS This element makes up about 78% of normal dry air by volume. 38)STATE BIRDS The male of this state bird of Maryland is black, white & orange. 39)PLACES IN THE BIBLE In Exodus 19 “The Lord descended upon” this mount “in fire”. 40)STARTS & ENDS WITH ‘T’ Object in which you’d brew your oolong. 41)WORLD LEADERS This Venezuelan president likes to call his country a Bolivarian Republic. 42)20TH CENTURY LIT T.S. Eliot’s verse drama “Murder in the Cathedral” deals with the death of this man. 43)LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY This general, who took the Alamo, was made President of Mexico 11 times between 1833 and 1855. 44)WALL STREET WOES This investment bank, swallowed up in 2008, had an appropriately non-bullish word in its name. 45)BUZZWORDS This “bump” made Time Magazine’s top 10 buzzwords of 2008. 46)PHYSICS Term first used by James Watt for a unit equivalent to 550 foot-pounds of work per second. 47)STATES OF THE UNION It’s “The Yellowhammer State”. 48)POETS “The Tyger” is a famous lyric by this author-illustrator. 49)HANDICRAFTS “Knit one” is commonly followed by this action “two”. 50)THE MUSIC SCENE This British band released “In Rainbows” as a name-your-own-price digital download. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/77 "2009-01-29T02:56:28Z")
Re-looking those over, I got 25 right at best. ☹ I skipped and wild-guessed a lot more than I thought I remembered. ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/78 "2009-01-29T03:19:29Z")
Hey! I’m feeling better! Last year I got 25. This year I got 30! ---
**Author:** ![DadWagonDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@DadWagonDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DadWagonDriver)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/79 "2009-01-29T03:24:06Z")
26 at worst! ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/80 "2009-01-29T03:24:32Z")
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