Jeopardy Online Tests - January 8,9,10

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I didn’t see a thread about this…

Yesterday was the East Coast online test for Jeopardy! I signed up for the Thursday test, so naturally I would have done very well on it. :smack:

Anyway, here are the questions for the Tuesday test (copied from the J! Board):

  1. AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
    In 1967 this great-grandson of a slave joined the Supreme Court

  2. TV TITLE ROLES
    Julianna Margulies plays attorney Alicia Florrick on this show

  3. STAMP COLLECTING
    First sold in 1840, the “Penny Black” & the “Two Penny Blue” both featured this person

  4. SHORT STORY WRITERS
    He spun the tale of “Rip Van Winkle” around 1820

  5. LAKES & RIVERS
    It flows through the entire length of New Mexico & forms part of its border with Texas

  6. THE INTERNET
    Google owns this website of uploaded content founded in February 2005

  7. ANATOMY
    The primary vessel for carrying blood from the heart to the rest of the body is this largest artery

  8. NATIONAL PARKS
    A third of Miami-Dade County is located in this national park

  9. 9-LETTER WORDS
    It’s a word meaning 2 weeks

  10. SHAKESPEARE
    This history play starts with the “winter of our discontent” speech

  11. COUNTRY MUSIC
    This “American Idol” winner took over from Faith Hill singing the “Sunday Night Football” theme

  12. POTENT POTABLES
    Rum brand named for a man who was born in Wales & died in Jamaica

  13. QUEENS OF FRANCE
    This 16th century Medici queen of France was the great-granddaughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent

  14. FISHY ANAGRAM
    ROLE FUND

  15. BALLET MOVES
    A full turn of the body on one foot, it’s from the Middle French for “spinning top”

  16. HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
    In the U.S. this holiday is observed on the 2nd Sunday in May

  17. FROM PAGE TO STAGE
    This musical that debuted in 1964 was based on the stories of Sholem Aleichem

  18. STATE OF THE UNION
    In the Civil War its 187th Volunteers were the “Keystone Brigade”

  19. THE OLYMPICS
    This city hosted the Oiympics during the Depression & again 52 years later

  20. ANCIENT ANIMALS
    This extinct flying reptile’s name is from the Greek for “wing finger”

  21. TRANSPORTATION
    In Europe it extends underwater for 31 miles from Folkestone to Sangatte

  22. ENDS WITH “O”
    The jargon of a profession or field of study

  23. MCPEOPLE
    She co-wrote the film adaptation of her novel “Waiting To Exhale”

  24. NEWSPAPERS
    This Maryland newspaper was founded back in 1837

  25. THE PERIODIC TABLE
    Cu is the symbol for this element

  26. FOR THE BIRDS
    The Adelie type of this bird builds nests from pebbles

  27. THE ROMAN EMPIRE
    Crassus, Pompey & Julius Caesar formed the “first” one in 60 B.C.

  28. COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE
    This Provo, Utah university was founded in 1875

  29. 18TH CENTURY LITERATURE
    In 1729 he presented “A Modest Proposal”

  30. RECENT HITMAKERS
    In 2008 this singer from the West Indies visited “Disturbia”

  31. FROM THE GREEK
    It’s from the Greek for “five-angled”

  32. BOOKS INTO MOVIES
    This 1985 Orson Scott Card novel came to the big screen in 2013

  33. WORLD CAPITALS
    It’s the capital of Libya

  34. LEGALESE
    It’s the willful giving of false testimony under oath

  35. THE BIBLE
    Get out! It’s the second book of The Bible

  36. MEDIEVAL TIMES
    King Harald II was killed at this battle in 1066

  37. POETS & POETRY
    This 3-named poetess wrote, “It is enough to bear / This image still and fair”

  38. SCIENTISTS
    In 1831 he got his Cambridge degree & set out on the H.M.S. Beagle

  39. U.S. CITIES
    This state capital’s seal shows a phoenix, symbolizing its rebuilding after the Civil War

  40. KIDDY LIT
    The narrator did not like this Seuss-ian title breakfast “here or there”

  41. ANYONE FOR DESSERT?
    Ice cream & cake topped with browned meringue is “baked” this state

  42. THE GREEK GODDESS
    She was born dressed in armor & had no mother, so she sprang from Zeus’ head

  43. LONG-RUNNING TV
    This Mark Harmon drama debuted in 2003 & is still on today

  44. NOVELISTS
    In 1826 he published “The Last of the Mohicans”

  45. MY STARS!
    Appropriately, this “dog star” is in Canis Major

  46. HISTORIC WORLD LEADERS
    He led Russia during WWII

  47. TECH COMPANIES
    This brand makes the Pentium Processor 967

  48. OH, CANADA
    On Burrard Inlet, Vancouver is in this Canadian province

  49. FEMALE AUTHORS
    Aliens, not vampires, helped this author stay on the bestseller lists with her novel “The Host”

  50. BEFORE & AFTER
    1980s sportswear designer who was used as an immigration center near the Statue of Liberty

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And here are the answers for the Tuesday test:

[spoiler]1. AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Thurgood Marshall

  1. TV TITLE ROLES
    The Good Wife

  2. STAMP COLLECTING
    Queen Victoria

  3. SHORT STORY WRITERS
    Washington Irving

  4. LAKES & RIVERS
    Rio Grande

  5. THE INTERNET
    YouTube

  6. ANATOMY
    aorta

  7. NATIONAL PARKS
    Everglades

  8. 9-LETTER WORDS
    fortnight

  9. SHAKESPEARE
    Richard III

  10. COUNTRY MUSIC
    Carrie Underwood

  11. POTENT POTABLES
    Captain Morgan

  12. QUEENS OF FRANCE
    Catherine

  13. FISHY ANAGRAM
    flounder

  14. BALLET MOVES
    pirouette

  15. HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
    Mother’s Day

  16. FROM PAGE TO STAGE
    Fiddler on the Roof

  17. STATE OF THE UNION
    Pennsylvania

  18. THE OLYMPICS
    Los Angeles

  19. ANCIENT ANIMALS
    pterodactyl

  20. TRANSPORTATION
    Chunnel/Channel Tunnel

  21. ENDS WITH “O”
    lingo

  22. MCPEOPLE
    Terry McMillan

  23. NEWSPAPERS
    Baltimore Sun

  24. THE PERIODIC TABLE
    copper

  25. FOR THE BIRDS
    penguin

  26. THE ROMAN EMPIRE
    triumvirate

  27. COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE
    Brigham Young

  28. 18TH CENTURY LITERATURE
    Jonathan Swift

  29. RECENT HITMAKERS
    Rihanna

  30. FROM THE GREEK
    pentagon

  31. BOOKS INTO MOVIES
    Ender’s Game

  32. WORLD CAPITALS
    Tripoli

  33. LEGALESE
    perjury

  34. THE BIBLE
    Exodus

  35. MEDIEVAL TIMES
    Hastings

  36. POETS & POETRY
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  37. SCIENTISTS
    Charles Darwin

  38. U.S. CITIES
    Atlanta

  39. KIDDY LIT
    Green Eggs & Ham

  40. ANYONE FOR DESSERT?
    baked alaska

  41. THE GREEK GODDESS
    Athena

  42. LONG-RUNNING TV
    NCIS

  43. NOVELISTS
    James Fenimore Cooper

  44. MY STARS!
    Sirius

  45. HISTORIC WORLD LEADERS
    Stalin

  46. TECH COMPANIES
    Intel

  47. OH, CANADA
    British Columbia

  48. FEMALE AUTHORS
    Stephanie Meyer

  49. BEFORE & AFTER
    Perry Ellis Island[/spoiler]

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I’m taking the test tonight. I would have scored a 38 if I’d done it last night. I think I had 39 last year.

Good luck!

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Well, may as well blow another Jeopardy online test. Signed up for tonight.

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I can’t play since I was already on the show last year, and finished dead last… talk about the end of a childhood dream. Sob!

I got 48, blowing the Monday Night Football singer and guessing, wrongly, Edna St. Vincent Millay as the 3-named poetess.

Good luck to all.

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Wow, did I blow that. I think I blanked on at least 10. Just my luck to get a horrible cold yesterday that has fogged my brain!

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I’m grateful for this thread–I had forgotten that this was Online Test time. I was able to register this afternoon, and just finished taking the test.

(I’m kicking myself for a few ‘realized the answer a second too late’ moments, but…well, we shall see.:cool:)

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Heh…I missed those exact two, too! (Congratulations on having been on the show, though, no matter what the outcome was. That’s quite an achievement in itself.^_^)

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The ones I missed are:[spoiler]2. TV TITLE ROLES
The Good Wife

  1. STAMP COLLECTING
    Queen Victoria

  2. LAKES & RIVERS
    Rio Grande

  3. THE INTERNET
    YouTube

  4. QUEENS OF FRANCE
    Catherine

  5. MCPEOPLE
    Terry McMillan

  6. RECENT HITMAKERS
    Rihanna

  7. LONG-RUNNING TV
    NCIS[/spoiler]

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I don’t think I’m eligible. I did a tryout in September of 2012, so I haven’t reached the end of the 18-month period where I can be called onto the show.

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Well, that weren’t pretty. 29 or 30 tops, with a few that I blanked on that I just have no excuse for. The horror! The horror!

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I got 32, with several that I should have gotten but blanked on. There were a couple that I absolutely didn’t know so I can’t claim a blank on those.

I’m not taking the test. I do very well yelling at the tv, but I would not do well on the show. And I’m terrible in geography and Broadway shows. Which they seem to love.

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It always seems I would do well but I only got 36. That’s why I don’t take it for real.

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Recheck the rules. I think you’d be OK since you’d be past 18 months by tryout time. I took it last year under the same circumstances.

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Last night’s.

  1. EXPLORERS
    In 1724 Peter the Great commissioned this Dane to explore the Pacific coast of Siberia

  2. TV DRAMAS
    Claire Danes plays the Emmy-winning role of CIA agent Carrie Mathison on this Showtime Drama

  3. FASHION
    In bridal fashions, Blusher, Cascade & Birdcage are types of these

  4. BESTSELLERS
    The TV series “Under The Dome” is based on the bestseller by this author

  5. BODIES OF WATER
    The Gulf of Finland is an arm of this sea

  6. “A” IN MYTHOLOGY
    In Greek myth Jason led this famous group of sailors

  7. GENERAL SCIENCE
    Nearly all of the earth’s weather occurs in this layer of the atmosphere below the stratosphere

  8. 20TH CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS
    “Glengarry Glen Ross”, about desperate real estate salesmen, won him a 1984 Pulitzer Prize

  9. 10-LETTER WORDS
    This “botanical” interchange is where 2 highways meet

  10. MEMOIRS
    She wrote the 2009 memoir “Going Rogue: An American Life”

  11. SINGLE-NAMED PERFORMERS
    Marshall Mathers goes by this stage name

  12. TREES
    Brought over from Australia to the U.S., blue gum is a common variety of this tree

  13. AMERICAN HISTORY
    In November 1906 Teddy Roosevelt left the U.S. to personally see the progress on this engineering project

  14. LANGUAGE LESSONS
    It’s the Spanish word for the midday rest

  15. ART
    A rich auburn color is named for this Venetian artist, who favored that hair color in his paintings

  16. FIRST NAMES
    One of the top 5 for U.S. girls born in 2012, it also belongs to a Jane Austen heroine

  17. BOOKS & AUTHORS
    He reworked a novel called “Stephen Hero” into “A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man”

  18. DESERTS
    This desert forms the triangular southern half of Israel

  19. ACTOR-DIRECTORS
    He wrote & directed 2013’s Blue Jasmine but doesn’t star in it

  20. PHYSICS
    “Planck” down this term for the smallest amount of energy that can be emitted as electromagnetic radiation

  21. ARCHITECTURE
    The 3 orders of ancient Greek column were Doric, Ionic & this ornate one named for a city

  22. COMPOUND WORDS
    It’s an apartment house owner who overcharges tenants while allowing the property to deteriorate

  23. NAME THE WORK
    1902: “The horror! The horror!”

  24. ENTREPRENEURS
    In the 21st century he kept dazzling visitors to Vegas with The Encore as well as the casino that bears his name

  25. CURRENT WORD LEADERS
    He served in the KGB from 1975 to 1991

  26. THE SOLAR SYSTEM
    Triton is the largest moon of this planet

  27. U.S. PRESIDENTS
    He was President when the 20th century began

  28. FLAGS
    4 white fleur-de-lis appear on this Canadian province’s flag

  29. ENGLISH LITERATURE
    According to a George Eliot title, the Tuillvers own a mill on this river

  30. CLASSIC MOVIE ACTRESSES
    She played Ilsa in “Casablanca”

  31. ALLITERATION
    Bovine term for a business product that is a dependable source of income

  32. SHAKESPEARE’S WOMEN
    While sleepwalking she yells, “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!”

  33. 4-LETTER CAPITALS
    It’s the capital of Latvia

  34. TECH STUFF
    In 2013 Susan Bennett was revealed to be the original voice of this iPhone assistant

  35. COLONIAL AMERICA
    The Pilgrims formed Plymouth colony & this religious group founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony

  36. ANCIENT GREEKS
    At age 70, he was put on trial for “not believing the gods the state believes in”

  37. NONFICTION
    His books included “Diet Revolution”, “New Diet Revolution” & “Health Revolution”

  38. ANATOMY
    The name of this jawbone is from the Latin for “to chew”

  39. WORLD CITIES
    Located at the south end of the Bosporus, it’s the only major city to lie on 2 continents: Asia & Europe

  40. AMERICAN LIT
    This author’s “House of the Seven Gables” tells of the cursed Pyncheon family

  41. LEGAL “E”S
    Often issued in times of war, this order prohibits ships or goods from leaving a port

  42. BIBLE BOOKS BY STORY
    3 friends are thrown into a fiery furnace in this Biblical book

  43. COLLEGE BOWL GAMES
    Since 1975 this New Year’s college bowl game has been played at the Superdome in New Orleans

  44. LITERARY TRILOGIES
    “The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest” completed the trilogy about a hacker from this country

  45. HEALTH & MEDICINE
    It’s the learning disability in which sufferers reverse words like “was” & “saw”

  46. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
    During this bloody period of the revolution, at least 17,000 people were executed

  47. POLITICIANS
    This senator’s memoir “An American Son” covers his family’s journey from Cuba to Florida

  48. THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
    The West Indian island of Aruba is a self-governing part of this European country

  49. SUCH A CHARACTER!
    Robert Bloch based this motel owner in his novel “Psycho” on convicted Wisconsin killer Ed Gein

  50. DOUBLE “L” WORDS
    Hairstyle described as “business in the front, party in the back”

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And the answers are…

  1. EXPLORERS
    Bering

  2. TV DRAMAS
    Homeland

  3. FASHION
    veils

  4. BESTSELLERS
    Stephen King

  5. BODIES OF WATER
    Baltic Sea

  6. “A” IN MYTHOLOGY
    Argonauts

  7. GENERAL SCIENCE
    troposphere

  8. 20TH CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS
    David Mamet

  9. 10-LETTER WORDS
    cloverleaf

  10. MEMOIRS
    Sarah Palin

  11. SINGLE-NAMED PERFORMERS
    Eminem

  12. TREES
    Eucalyptus

  13. AMERICAN HISTORY
    Panama Canal

  14. LANGUAGE LESSONS
    siesta

  15. ART
    Titian red

  16. FIRST NAMES
    Emma

  17. BOOKS & AUTHORS
    James Joyce

  18. DESERTS
    Negev Desert

  19. ACTOR-DIRECTORS
    Woody Allen

  20. PHYSICS
    quantum

  21. ARCHITECTURE
    Corinthian

  22. COMPOUND WORDS
    slumlord

  23. NAME THE WORK
    Heart of Darkness

  24. ENTREPRENEURS
    Steve Wynn

  25. CURRENT WORD LEADERS
    Vladimir Putin

  26. THE SOLAR SYSTEM
    Neptune

  27. U.S. PRESIDENTS
    William Mckinley

  28. FLAGS
    Quebec

  29. ENGLISH LITERATURE
    Floss

  30. CLASSIC MOVIE ACTRESSES
    Ingrid Bergman

  31. ALLITERATION
    cash cow

  32. SHAKESPEARE’S WOMEN
    Lady Macbeth

  33. 4-LETTER CAPITALS
    Riga

  34. TECH STUFF
    Siri

  35. COLONIAL AMERICA
    Puritans

  36. ANCIENT GREEKS
    Socrates

  37. NONFICTION
    Atkins

  38. ANATOMY
    mandible

  39. WORLD CITIES
    Istanbul

  40. AMERICAN LIT
    Nathaniel Hawthorne

  41. LEGAL “E”S
    embargo

  42. BIBLE BOOKS BY STORY
    Daniel

  43. COLLEGE BOWL GAMES
    Sugar Bowl

  44. LITERARY TRILOGIES
    Sweden

  45. HEALTH & MEDICINE
    dyslexia

  46. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
    Reign of Terror

  47. POLITICIANS
    Marco Rubio

  48. THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
    Netherlands

  49. SUCH A CHARACTER!
    Norman Bates

  50. DOUBLE “L” WORDS
    mullet

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Personally I missed potentially… 7? Troposhere, put clover instead of cloverleaf, Joyce (seriously bummed at that one), Negev (put Sinai), quantum (photon), Wynn, Bergman (super disappointed at this one too), and Floss.

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I actually did better than I thought on last night’s test, I got 39 (same score as last year, I think). On the J! board they seem to think you need at least a 40.

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It’s amazing how my perception of the difficulty varies. On Tuesday, when I actually took the test, I found it relatively easy, and got 43/50.

Taking the Wednesday test on my own just now, though? Bombed. 26/50, and it took me longer than 15 seconds to call up at least two of the answers I did get.

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I took it last night and (assuming I remember my answers correctly) got 40. I completely blanked on a couple, didin’t understand the Planck question at all, and just plain didn’t know a few.