They’d have to give it to you for “Teller”. He doesn’t have a first name.
Damn you! Every time I check this thread, my score goes down. 45 maximum now.
And I started singing the song in my head and everything. 15 seconds seems like plenty of time, until it turns out that includes the time to read the clue.
Were some of you people collaborating on this?
I’m guessing I got 19 wrong. When my phone ain’t ringing I’ll know it’s Alex Trebek!
Here are the answers I remember entering:
Krishna and Rama are both considered avatars of this Hindu god
Shiva (wrong)
Scottish chef known for rants
Gordon Ramsay (right)
Nicholas II was the last czar of this family
Romanov (right)
Topsy and Simon Legree are both characters in this bestselling novel
C.I.T.R. (wrong)
John the Baptist’s ministry took place in the region around this river
Jordan (right)
In 1903, with presidential permission, Morris Michtom began marketing these toys
Teddy Bears (right)
This term for a person who works for various employers comes from the knights who sold their skills
Mercenary (wrong)
She’s the fabled tale teller in “The Thousand and One Nights.”
S (wrong)
Regarding this device, Archimedes said, “Give me a place to stand and I will move the world.”
Lever (right)
In 2008 she played Daisy, the lifelong friend of Benjamin Button
Pass (wrong)
This 15,000 foot peak in the Swiss alps is famous for its shape and the danger of ascending it
Matterhorn (?)
He was president during the war of 1812
McKinley (wrong)
Mozart’s last and perhaps most powerful symphony shares its name with this planet
Venus (wrong)
This language was invented in Warsaw in 1887 by Zamenhof
Esperanto (right)
In the 2008-08 season, this Cleveland Cavalier turned 23 and averaged 30 points a game
LeBron James (right)
An arm bone, or an adjective meaning funny
Humorous (assuming they accept either spelling, right)
Now named to the cabinet, Steven Chu won a noble for capturing atoms with these light beams
Lasers (right)
He occupied a chair over which the sword of him was suspended by a single thread.
Damocles (right)
“Bush at work”,”Plan of Attack,” and “State of Denial” are books by this famed journalist
Charles Krauthammer - this was a total WAG (wrong)
Cecilia Bartoli has unearthed and sung several forgotten arias by this “Four Seasons “ composer
Vivaldi (right)
It’s the smallest and easternmost of the great lakes
Michigan (wrong)
9 teaspoons equals this many tablespoons
3 (right)
Logically, it’s the middle book of Dante’s “Divine Comedy”
Fifth (Circle) (right)
In 1620 it sailed westward from Southampton with Christopher Jones as captain
May (brain fart, presumably wrong)
Atomic number 98, this radioactive element is the only one named after a US state
Nevadium - WAG (wrong)
This Midwest state is the only one whose 2-letter postal abbreviation is a preposition
Indiana (right)
Attorney-client benefit 9 letters
Privilege (right)
It completes the line “Shall I compare thee to …”
A summer’s eve… actually put day first :smack: (wrong)
In a 2008 revival of this show, the sharks sing in Spanish
Pass (wrong)
This flavor was invented in 1929 and named in part to reflect the difficult economic times ahead
Rocky Road (right)
Sculptures that once adorned the Parthenon are known as these, after a British lord
Elgin Marbles (right)
In “Great Expectations,” this aged lady still wears her wedding dress
Pass (wrong)
The young pretender to the British throne in the 1740s was also known as Bonnie Prince ____
Charlie (right)
This Frenchman lent his name to an early form of photography
Pass (wrong)
In Latin, the name of this country means place of freedom
Liberia (?)
A no. 1 bestseller in 2008, was this female mystery authors “Scarpetta.”
Kay - brain fart (wrong)
Latin term for the moon’s seas, the largest is about 750 miles wide.
Tranquility (misread this one)
Born a slave, she helped free others and was the first black woman on a US postage stamp
Harriet Tubman (right)
As an adjective, it means timely, in the theater it’s to supply an actor with a line
Pass (wrong)
Just one radio advertising song (rhyme)
Single jingle (right)
The Oregon trail and pony express route both passed by Casper in this state
Wyoming (right)
His “Murders in the Rue Morgue” is considered by many to be the world’s first detective story
Don’t remember what I put, wasn’t Poe (wrong)
During the Sui dynasty it was repaired 7 times to defend against the Tujue
Great Wall of China (right)
The House of Representatives has this many members
435 (right)
Half ____ Alaska (fill in the blank)
Assed (Wrong)
The intestinal tract of these insects, aka white ants, can break down cellulose
termites (right)
Smaller than Greenland, it’s the worlds second-largest island
I was always taught Australia in school, but apparently it no longer counts (wrong)
Karen Blixen wrote “Out of Africa” under this name
Dinesen (right)
Hit the bullseye and name this discount retail store first opened by the Dayton Co. in xxxx
Target (right)
This singer renamed herself Sasha Fierce for a 2008 double album
Beyonce Knowles (right)
Assuming Matterhorn and Liberia are correct, I got 29. Sigh.
Dammit. I forgot about Benjamin Button. That’s another wrong.
(I stand by my complaint that they have too much pop culture in the mix. Mostly because that is my achilles heel.)
Not me. I didn’t really know what the format was going in, or I might have opened an arseload of google tabs first.
Hate to tell you , but the three books of the Divine Comedy are Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
I doubt that would have helped me. I barely had enough time to read the question and type the answer, with precious little time to think about it.
I think I got 40-42, depending on how hard they grade the spelling. It’s tough; everyone knows how to say Scheherazade, but I don’t think I spelled it phonetically correct. Oh well.
Ones I definitely missed:
Vishnu
Romanov
freelance
possibly Scheherazade
lever (I put “fulcrum”)
Lake Ontario
3 tablespoons
New Guinea
I put Purgatory instead of Purgatorio
I put IN instead of Indiana
I may have screwed up spelling Dinesen.
How many people got New Guinea? I thought that was the hardest one.
Oops.
Not many, I expect. When I was in school, the continent was Australasia and Australia was an island (and country). I suppose in that case Greenland would have been second, so I’m still wrong.
I got New Guinea.
But I need to admit, I sat here saying “What was that ship that started the voyage with the Mayflower? The Speedwell! Yeah, that’s it!”
And so I got one wrong that any fifth-grader would have gotten right.
I wonder if they’ll accept Purgatory? Also, I totally guessed right on ‘termites!’
Dang it. Am working the next two nights, could have done it tonight when work got canceled due to ice, but forgot to sign up.
Oh well 
Oh.
OK!
I was quite proud of myself when I submitted Madagascar. :smack:
Answers are up. I got 41 or 42, I honestly can’t remember if I got Gordon Ramsay or not.
Either way, I can live with it. I should have got INdiana; but I had two others that were damn near blind guesses that turned out right.
Hey, good luck everybody!!
I took the online test last January, and today I was in LA on the show.
It’s a fantastic experience and if a lurker-doper can get on, I’m sure y’all who participate in the board so much, and scare me with how smart y’all are, well, you’re definitely in with a great chance.
Me? I’m just happy to be in sunny LA and not in ice storm afflicted Oklahoma.
Best wishes, happy thoughts and good luck to all taking the test 
36/50. A little disappointing, but I didn’t feel like I should’ve known most of the wrong answers.
Ooh, congratulations. Do we get to know who you are and when you’ll be on?
I did terribly. Missed Patricia Cornwell, Karen Blixen’s other name, “Freelance,” Mozart’s symphony, Vishnu, Indiana (I said Ohio - Oh is a word, after all) and the guy who wrote “State of Denial,” just completely blanking on Bob Woodward. I have no diea what the sculptures/British lord answer is or who the aged lady from “Great Expectations” is, which is embarassing because I read “Great Expectations” (to be honest I barely understood what the hell was going on even when I was reading it; my Christ, that book was dull.) Also missed Harriet Tubman, which I should have gotten.
So I got 40or so, which I don’t think is nearly good enough.