I got at least three right AFTER the time expired Collins, Zion, Roosevelt - maybe wrong on the last one
I did better than that, but still not well.
Yeah that was way harder than last year’s. At least it wasn’t just me.
This was a lot tougher than last time. There were a few that I couldn’t even guess the answer.
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.
Who was the poet that became a baron at 10 or something? Any thoughts?
Hard test this year.
Crap, that was a question about a poet? I missed the category and totally blanked on it. Lord Byron, of course. :smack:
Is the first night usually easier? Maybe I’ll take that one next year.
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 Byron, but it was a total guess. Poetry is not my forte.
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.
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!
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?
Thanks, but I’m pretty sure that won’t happen this year!
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?
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.
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)
- Josephine
- Despicable Me
- Hanukkah
- Collins
- Red Sea
- Vulgate
- Retrograde
- Hoover
- ??
- Bill O’Reilly
- Peyton Manning
- Haiti
- Hundred Years War
- Kiosk
- Carmen
- Vassar
- John Grisham
- Etna
- Phantom of the Opera
- Wolfram
- Secretary of Defense
- Vanity
- Alice Walker
- Burden of Proof
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Hardness
- Fates
- Nancy Pelosi
- Andy Warhol
- Big Bang Theory
- ???
- Lord Byron
- Zion
- Fathom
- Thomas
- China
- Life of Pi
- Chromosome
- Allegheny
- Troy
- Nash
- ???
- Katy Perry
- Cordelia
- Roentgen
- Magellan
- Tequila
- Atacama
- Tarzan
- 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.”
What was Q9, 31 & 42?