# Jeopardy Online Tests - January 8,9,10 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 8, 2014, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310 "2014-01-08T20:36:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/21 "2014-01-09T15:06:53Z")
I signed up for the test but I missed it – completely forgot about it. Then I found all the Jeopardy-related emails in my spam folder :smack: ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/22 "2014-01-09T15:09:57Z")
> [@Falchion](#): > > 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. I thought the Planck question was plainly just a bad question. > [@kiz](#): > > I signed up for the test but I missed it – completely forgot about it. Then I found all the Jeopardy-related emails in my spam folder :smack: I think you can still take it tonight? Tonight’s eastern taking time is 10pm though. ---
**Author:** ![Falchion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Falchion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falchion)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/23 "2014-01-09T15:15:55Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > I thought the Planck question was plainly just a bad question. I’m not suggesting that I would have known the answer (I wouldn’t have). But most of the others I got wrong I either knew I didn’t know (Titian) or knew I should know (Joyce). But I was annoyed with a question that I didn’t know if I actually knew. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/24 "2014-01-09T15:23:23Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > And the answers are… > > 39. WORLD CITIES > Istanbul Are you sure? Wasn’t it called something else? Or maybe that was awhile ago. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/25 "2014-01-09T15:35:02Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Are you sure? Wasn’t it called something else? Or maybe that was awhile ago. I don’t think that’s any of your business. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/26 "2014-01-09T16:56:22Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Are you sure? Wasn’t it called something else? Or maybe that was awhile ago. It used to be Constantinople ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/27 "2014-01-09T17:28:07Z")
I’m registered for tonight’s test! Hope they don’t ask too many questions about 19th century opera or something like that… ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/28 "2014-01-09T18:44:41Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Are you sure? Wasn’t it called something else? Or maybe that was awhile ago. Why they changed it, I can’t say. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/29 "2014-01-09T18:48:22Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#): > > I’m registered for tonight’s test! Hope they don’t ask too many questions about 19th century opera or something like that… Best of luck to you (and to me, too)! I just took the Wednesday test for practice, and scored a 41. Strangely, I bombed on the author questions (except Sarah Palin :eek:), which is usually a strong subject for me. Last year, I took the Wednesday test and it was my worst of the three, and the prior year I made it to a tryout. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/30 "2014-01-09T19:38:07Z")
It should be noted the OP is incorrect–it’s not January 8-10, it’s 7-9, which means tonight is the last day (I just registered). ---
**Author:** ![markdash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@markdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markdash)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/31 "2014-01-09T21:34:38Z")
Got 41 on Tuesday’s, 33 on Wednesday’s. Clearly I need to read more literature. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/32 "2014-01-09T21:46:12Z")
> [@JacksMom](#): > > 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. Yeah, 31 for me on Tuesday. A couple I blanked on (I know the capital of Libya, it just didn’t come to me until about 25 seconds too late), a few I didn’t know at all, and a couple I thought I had right but I was terribly, terribly wrong (jete? Really? What was I thinking). Anyway, this was the first time I tried it. It was kind of fun. You either know the answer or you don’t. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/33 "2014-01-10T00:05:26Z")
Well I am clearly not Jeopardy material. I got only 31 this time. It’s interesting to see the holes in my knowledge. Apparently I know very little about current literature, ancient mythology and geography. Or the troposphere. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/34 "2014-01-10T02:03:00Z")
I’m registered for tonight. But at my age, I have trouble with names. Of the ones I missed last time, most were names that I knew, but needed a little more time to think of them. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/35 "2014-01-10T02:38:23Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > I thought the Planck question was plainly just a bad question. I think that “photon” should also be accepted as correct, especially when the question emphasized EM radiation. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/36 "2014-01-10T02:40:08Z")
P.S. Thanks to this thread, I just remembered to sign up! (The dates are wrong in the OP, though.) Twenty minutes to go! ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/37 "2014-01-10T02:54:11Z")
Alright, almost there!!! (PLEASE no opera questions!!!) ---
**Author:** ![Tess\_Trueheart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Tess\_Trueheart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tess_Trueheart)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/38 "2014-01-10T02:56:59Z")
I’m logged in - probably won’t do me any good to test. But this thread reminded me, and I reminded **Darth Sensitive** , who has actually been called for an interview in KC a few years ago and who is trying to get to that stage again. He’s the one with the right kind of wide knowledge base for Jeopardy, though I kick his ass in a few specific small categories. Good luck Dopers! ---
**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 10, 2014, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/39 "2014-01-10T03:13:10Z")
Just took it. Either I’ve become ten times stupider than I was last year, or that test was a bitch. Easily the worst I’ve ever done. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/40 "2014-01-10T03:13:38Z")
I did HORRIBLY. I’d be surprised if I got 20% right. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310.md?page=3)