# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/41 "2014-01-10T03:17:31Z")
I got at least three right AFTER the time expired Collins, Zion, Roosevelt - maybe wrong on the last one ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/42 "2014-01-10T03:17:56Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#): > > I did HORRIBLY. I’d be surprised if I got 20% right. I did better than that, but still not well. ---
**Author:** ![Othersider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@Othersider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Othersider)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/43 "2014-01-10T03:18:26Z")
Yeah that was way harder than last year’s. At least it wasn’t just me. ---
**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, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/44 "2014-01-10T03:18:43Z")
This was a lot tougher than last time. There were a few that I couldn’t even guess the answer. ---
**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, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/45 "2014-01-10T03:19:20Z")
Wow that was tough! I did okay enough to not feel like a dunce, but I know I didn’t get enough to get a phone call. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/46 "2014-01-10T03:20:21Z")
Who was the poet that became a baron at 10 or something? Any thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/47 "2014-01-10T03:20:46Z")
Hard test this year. ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/48 "2014-01-10T03:21:25Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > Who was the poet that became a baron at 10 or something? Any thoughts? Crap, that was a question about a poet? I missed the category and totally blanked on it. Lord Byron, of course. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Othersider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@Othersider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Othersider)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/49 "2014-01-10T03:22:33Z")
Is the first night usually easier? Maybe I’ll take that one next year. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/50 "2014-01-10T03:24:17Z")
> [@Baffle](#): > > Crap, that was a question about a poet? I missed the category and totally blanked on it. Lord Byron, of course. :smack: Yeah… I was still flustered trying to remember the Hunger Games author. Lord Byron… obvious in hindsight. Sad… I got a called for an in-person tryout once but have gone downhill steadily since. ---
**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, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/51 "2014-01-10T03:25:12Z")
I got Byron, but it was a total guess. Poetry is not my forte. ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/52 "2014-01-10T03:25:54Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > Yeah… I was still flustered trying to remember the Hunger Games author. Lord Byron… obvious in hindsight. Sad… I got a called for an in-person tryout once but have gone downhill steadily since. I got emailed for an in-person tryout in 2009 and couldn’t go because it was a twelve-hour drive and I was extra broke. Haven’t got anything since. But this year might be my year! Just waiting on the list of answers to see how I did. ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/53 "2014-01-10T03:27:06Z")
> [@Othersider](#): > > Is the first night usually easier? Maybe I’ll take that one next year. I suspect they use a bell curve to control for the difference of difficulty between tests. As long as you’re better than everyone else, you’re in! ---
**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, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/54 "2014-01-10T03:28:24Z")
Well, that sucked. :rolleyes: I left a string of 3 or 4 blank about two-thirds through because I didn’t have a clue, along with another 3 or 4 scattered throughout the test. I blanked on the “Despicable Me” question at the beginning due to nervousness. I don’t think I need to worry about being called based on this performance. On the two tests posted above, I think I would have done much better. Do the tests typically get harder as the days go on? ---
**Author:** ![Othersider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@Othersider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Othersider)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/55 "2014-01-10T03:29:20Z")
> [@Baffle](#): > > I suspect they use a bell curve to control for the difference of difficulty between tests. As long as you’re better than everyone else, you’re in! Thanks, but I’m pretty sure that won’t happen this year! ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/56 "2014-01-10T03:29:23Z")
King Lear’s daughter? I hate Shakespeare! That was brutal. I think I got 27 or so, and I’ll kick myself when I see the answers, 'cause I know I know them, ya know? ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/57 "2014-01-10T03:33:10Z")
I’m pretty sure the daughter was Regan, because I worked with a girl who had that name. I got zion, but blanked on the 3 rivers name and couldn’t even spell monahiguila…whatever. Guess I got lucky on Byron. But all in all, I don’t think I even got a 50%. This one seemed tougher than the previous years I’ve taken. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/58 "2014-01-10T03:39:27Z")
The river isn’t the Allegheny? Uh-oh… ETA: Looks like I got the flag and the planetary motion, but totally had no answer on the X-Rays or the Urdu word one, and biffed the opera question (of course) ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/59 "2014-01-10T04:06:32Z")
1. Josephine 2. Despicable Me 3. Hanukkah 4. Collins 5. Red Sea 6. Vulgate 7. Retrograde 8. Hoover 9. ?? 10. Bill O’Reilly 11. Peyton Manning 12. Haiti 13. Hundred Years War 14. Kiosk 15. Carmen 16. Vassar 17. John Grisham 18. Etna 19. Phantom of the Opera 20. Wolfram 21. Secretary of Defense 22. Vanity 23. Alice Walker 24. Burden of Proof 25. Eleanor Roosevelt 26. Hardness 27. Fates 28. Nancy Pelosi 29. Andy Warhol 30. Big Bang Theory 31. ??? 32. Lord Byron 33. Zion 34. Fathom 35. Thomas 36. China 37. Life of Pi 38. Chromosome 39. Allegheny 40. Troy 41. Nash 42. ??? 43. Katy Perry 44. Cordelia 45. Roentgen 46. Magellan 47. Tequila 48. Atacama 49. Tarzan 50. Khaki Even Google couldn’t get me the answers for 9, 31 and 42. Edit: 9: Homonyms; “To keep your tea bag in water, or marked by an extreme angle.” 31: 7-letter words; “As an adjective it means polite and gracious; as a noun, it’s a strong, sweet liqueur.” 42: Classical Composers; “His ‘Songs to Remember’ include about 50 mazurkas written in a 3/4 dance rhythm.” [Video link is here.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrfCNtJfyw8) ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310/60 "2014-01-10T04:07:50Z")
> [@Baffle](#): > > 1. Josephine > 2. Despicable Me > 3. Hanukkah > 4. Collins > 5. Red Sea > 6. Vulgate > 7. Retrograde > 8. Hoover > 9. ?? > 10. Bill O’Reilly > 11. Peyton Manning > 12. Haiti > 13. Hundred Years War > 14. Kiosk > 15. Carmen > 16. Vassar > 17. John Grisham > 18. Etna > 19. Phantom of the Opera > 20. Wolfram > 21. Secretary of Defense > 22. Vanity > 23. Alice Walker > 24. Burden of Proof > 25. Eleanor Roosevelt > 26. Hardness > 27. Fates > 28. Nancy Pelosi > 29. Andy Warhol > 30. Big Bang Theory > 31. ??? > 32. Lord Byron > 33. Zion > 34. Fathom > 35. Thomas > 36. China > 37. Life of Pi > 38. Chromosome > 39. Allegheny > 40. Troy > 41. Nash > 42. ??? > 43. Katy Perry > 44. Cordelia > 45. Roentgen > 46. Magellan > 47. Tequila > 48. Atacama > 49. Tarzan > 50. Khaki > > Even Google couldn’t get me the answers for 9, 31 and 42. What was Q9, 31 & 42? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-online-tests-january-8-9-10/678310.md?page=4)