# 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:** 5
**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, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/81 "2009-01-29T03:25:51Z")
Answers: 1. February 2. Mumbai (Bombay) 3. Queen Victoria 4. Letters (possibly documents, too) 5. The chorus 6. Shell 7. swan 8. snakes 9. direct current 10. eagle (maybe ‘two-under-par’, but I doubt it) 11. California 12. U.S.S. Arizona 13. The Brandeburg Concertos 14. “America the Beautiful” 15. Lindsay Lohan 16. vanity 17. Copernicus 18. Pope John Paul II (Karol Józef Wojtyła) 19. “The Jungle” 20. van Gogh 21. Lake Baikal 22. Firefox 23. “Love” 24. Spain 25. basalt 26. buttress 27. summa c-u-m laude (darn censorbot) 28. “Trees” 29. “Cheers” 30. centimeters 31. John Coltrane 32. Henry Fielding 33. James Monroe 34. Bill Richardson 35. Boston 36. Ernest Hemmingway 37. nitrogen 38. oriole 39. Sinai 40. teapot 41. Hugo Chavez 42. Archbishop Thomas Becket 43. Santa Anna 44. Bear Stearns 45. fist bump 46. horsepower 47. Alabama 48. William Blake 49. purl 50. Radiohead I think I got a dismal 21 or 22. I blanked on the Santa Ana for for petes sake. Duh! ---
**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, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/82 "2009-01-29T03:49:35Z")
Whoo, I think I got 40 (assuming they accept “cobras” for snakes, and don’t count the fact that I misspelled “Santa Anna” against me). I feel better now 🙂 ---
**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, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/83 "2009-01-29T04:08:09Z")
1. February **Got it** 2. Mumbai (Bombay) **Got it, mostly a guess though, knew it was either Mumbai or Dehli** 3. Queen Victoria **Got it** 4. Letters (possibly documents, too) **Said episodes, stupid…knew the general concept and couldn’t find the words** 5. The chorus **Knew this but didn’t get it typed in time** 6. Shell **Said Exxon, no idea why the Shell hints didn’t register.** 7. swan **Missed this, I’m dumb, this was an easy one** 8. snakes **Got it** 9. direct current **Got it** 10. eagle (maybe ‘two-under-par’, but I doubt it) **Got it** 11. California **Got it** 12. U.S.S. Arizona **Got it, almost said Utah since the 1989 date seemed too late** 13. The Brandeburg Concertos **No clue** 14. “America the Beautiful” **Said Star-Spangled Banner, though maybe it was in one of the never-heard verses. Though American the Beautiful was more modern than that.** 15. Lindsay Lohan **Got it** 16. vanity **Knew I’d slap myself when I heard this, shit.** 17. Copernicus **Said Galileo, knew it was wrong, but couldn’t think of Copernicus fast enough.** 18. Pope John Paul II (Karol Józef Wojtyła) **Said Pope John Paul, not sure if they’ll give it to me without the "2"** 19. “The Jungle” **I knew it and couldn’t spit it out, said Slaughterhouse in desperation** 20. van Gogh **Guessed Picasso, just a stab in the dark** 21. Lake Baikal **No clue** 22. Firefox **Got it, was using it to play!** 23. “Love” **Guessed “Sleep”, Love would have been my other guess. Damn** 24. Spain **Guessed Russia, wrong** 25. basalt **Put in Bituminous, not sure why I was able to come up with that and not the right one.** 26. buttress **Got it** 27. summa c-u-m laude (darn censorbot) **Got it, but I think I hit the submit too late** 28. “Trees” **Guessed “Loves”, had no idea, should have used it earlier!** 29. “Cheers” **Got it** 30. centimeters **Got it** 31. John Coltrane **No clue** 32. Henry Fielding **No clue, fucking literature!** 33. James Monroe **Got it** 34. Bill Richardson **Said McCain. :smack:** 35. Boston **Got it** 36. Ernest Hemmingway **No clue** 37. nitrogen **Got it** 38. oriole **Got it** 39. Sinai **Out smarted myself and said Ararat, dumb.** 40. teapot **Got it** 41. Hugo Chavez **Knew it but couldn’t get it typed in in time** 42. Archbishop Thomas Becket **Guessed the pope, more damned literature** 43. Santa Anna **Was killing myself on this one, I just couldn’t get it fast enough!** 44. Bear Stearns **Got it** 45. fist bump **Terrible clue, was at a loss** 46. horsepower **Got it** 47. Alabama **WAGed Utah** 48. William Blake **Nope…more literature** 49. purl \*\*Guessed “Stitch”, even Googling didn’t turn up and answer on this one. \*\* 50. Radiohead **Misread the question, thought they were asking for the name of the name-your-own-price system.** SOOOOO Frustrating! ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/84 "2009-01-29T04:10:07Z")
I think I got 41, if they give me cobras and a misspelling of Beckett 🙂 (though I blasted off a quick Google on a few - I’m such a cheater :() ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/85 "2009-01-29T04:34:21Z")
I would’ve gotten 41, about what I got the night before. ---
**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, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/86 "2009-01-29T05:42:02Z")
It’s a cobra. I remember that clearly - in the cartoon they had hoods. I went for baby bump instead of fist bump and I totally misread the Astronomer clue (I thought they were looking for “model of what” rather than “which scientist”) And I partially misread the browser clue (year matters). But… well, it could have been worse. ---
**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, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/87 "2009-01-29T06:07:45Z")
What’s the turnaround on being contacted for an interview? ---
**Author:** ![BethCro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@BethCro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BethCro)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/88 "2009-01-29T06:59:46Z")
I took the online test on January 30 last year, got an email on April 25 inviting me to Chicago to audition on June 4, attended that audtion and got a phone call on Dec 12 asking if I wanted to come out to LA and film the show on Jan 27 - 28 '09 … silly question, is there any other answer than YES, PLEASE? ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/89 "2009-01-29T07:19:55Z")
After the past year, what idiot doesn’t know Lindsay Lohan? This one, that’s who. I sat here, going “L…L…L…darn!” I think I missed 13. Pretty much, the ones I knew, I knew, and the ones I didn’t I really didn’t. Completely missed the ‘B’ in the Geology one, but I wouldn’t have known it anyway, so I don’t feel too bad. Although, I could see Bill Richardson standing on the platform with Barack Obama, while they talked about his beard. Just couldn’t get the name. And I missed the clues in the two where they were pretty blatant. I knew they should mean something in the Shell one, but it just didn’t come to me. The “Some Like It Hot” fans in my family are going to be so upset with me. ---
**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, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/90 "2009-01-29T16:11:27Z")
> [@threeorange](#): > > It wouldn’t come to me either-Robert Blake, that’s right. Crap. Of course I meant William Blake. I’ve gotten dumber, but not that much dumber. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/91 "2009-01-29T19:01:56Z")
> [@threeorange](#): > > Of course I meant William Blake. I’ve gotten dumber, but not that much dumber. All I know about William Blake I learned about from Bull Durham Some quote about “the road to excess is paved with good intentions” - William Blake! - Annie What do you mean William Blake? - Crash Davis I mean William Blake! - Annie Who are you? - Crash Davis 😃 I’m terrible on the literature questions. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/92 "2009-01-29T22:31:04Z")
I got 43. Wavering between encouragement and despair. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/93 "2009-01-30T03:30:52Z")
Just wanted to say good luck to all the other west coasters. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/94 "2009-01-30T03:49:06Z")
The only ones I didn’t know were the Lake Ontario, the Greek statues and the Beyonce questions. I was taking a lot more time with each question than I’d be able to do on the show, though. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/95 "2009-01-30T04:11:14Z")
Do I know any straits in Turkey? I’m not sure. Did Doris Kearns Goodwin have TIME to write a book about Obama’s cabinet? I don’t think so, but I couldn’t recall who the term was first applied to. Speaking of Obama, I can’t believe I couldn’t remember the name of his AG nominee. We’ll see what happens. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/96 "2009-01-30T04:13:21Z")
Fucked that up all kinds of ways. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/97 "2009-01-30T04:14:15Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Do I know any straits in Turkey? I’m not sure. > > Did Doris Kearns Goodwin have TIME to write a book about Obama’s cabinet? I don’t think so, but I couldn’t recall who the term was first applied to. > > Speaking of Obama, I can’t believe I couldn’t remember the name of his AG nominee. > > We’ll see what happens. 😛 Missed the strait, but I got the other two. The rest were a tossup. The sports questions I couldn’t even guess. Ah well. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/98 "2009-01-30T04:14:16Z")
ARGHHH brain cramp big time. I should have known at least 48. but just had a mind blank on some of the easiest. Laertes father? total blank out. AG? nope nothing. I must have throw any at least 8 easy ones including the times I was still trying to spell and never submitted as time ran out. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/99 "2009-01-30T04:15:13Z")
Bosporus is a straight in Turkey. Was it correct? Goodwin was about Lincoln… I blanked on Walt f’in Whitman somehow… and only got “kicman” out for the last one (instead of Kidman). Blech - I’ll go over them when they’re posted and tabulate… ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321/100 "2009-01-30T04:20:50Z")
Wow, and just saw that my last-second wild-ass-guess O’Keefe was right… hm, maybe this wasn’t so bad. Hopefully someone will post them soon on the Jeopardy! board. Eh, but I guess Macon is the “Heart of Georgia” not Athens… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-test-discussion/483321.md?page=6)