# Jeopardy Test Registration is Open! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 13, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-test-registration-is-open/615649 "2012-03-13T14:51:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-test-registration-is-open/615649/21 "2012-03-28T17:21:42Z")
> [@lost4life](#): > > Didn’t see a post on this yet. > > If you got shut out of the last one like I did, they’re having another test later this month. Registration is now open. If you took the January test, you’re not eligible. > > Good luck! I took the January test. Jeopardy sent me an email yesterday telling me to take tonight’s test. I did not re-register, but they seem to have given me access anyway. Odd. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-test-registration-is-open/615649/22 "2012-03-28T19:39:16Z")
Ready! I already told my partner not to call me between 9 and 9:30… ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-test-registration-is-open/615649/23 "2012-03-29T01:01:57Z")
Good luck, everyone! ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-test-registration-is-open/615649/24 "2012-03-29T01:11:13Z")
Wow, I sucked. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-test-registration-is-open/615649/25 "2012-03-29T01:11:29Z")
Well, I either did great or terribly. But either way, it kept my brain occupied for 10 minutes 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-test-registration-is-open/615649/26 "2012-03-29T01:11:45Z")
Just finished the test. Was it just me or did this one seem easier than the ones in the past? I don’t want to jinx it, but there were only three questions off the top of my head that I think I got wrong… -The one about a man with a potato named after him (No clue) -The one about husband and wife restaurant reviewers (All I came up with was Z - a few seconds after time ran out I thought of “Zagat”) -The star of The King’s Speech (I typed “Colin Rush”; shortly after typing it I realized I was thinking of Colin Firth) How’d you guys do? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-test-registration-is-open/615649/27 "2012-03-29T01:12:41Z")
Wow, those seconds flew by for me. I also do not know the potato man. ETA: Google says it’s Burbank. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-test-registration-is-open/615649/28 "2012-03-29T01:13:36Z")
Potato guy was Luther Burbank. King’s Speech, all I could think of was Colin Farrell and I knew that wasn’t him. And I missed the point of the last question completely until it was too late…it should have been “Bob Dylan Thomas” as a Before & After and all I got down before time was up was “Dylan”. I hope I didn’t suck as bad as I thought… ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-test-registration-is-open/615649/29 "2012-03-29T01:13:56Z")
Just finished, and would like to find out how I did—Any ideas on how to go about that? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-test-registration-is-open/615649/30 "2012-03-29T01:15:15Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > Just finished, and would like to find out how I did—Any ideas on how to go about that? You can’t, really. Several places it says “you will not be notified.” Even on the page about emailing them with technical problems, it says “do not ask about your results.” ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-test-registration-is-open/615649/31 "2012-03-29T01:15:43Z")
Damn…didn’t look at the category for the last one until it was too late, so I only put “Bob Dylan”, not “Bob Dylan Thomas”. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-test-registration-is-open/615649/32 "2012-03-29T01:17:23Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > You can’t, really. Several places it says “you will not be notified.” Even on the page about emailing them with technical problems, it says “do not ask about your results.” It seems to me that a couple of years ago the answers showed up here on SDMB within just a couple of hours of the final test period ending… ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-test-registration-is-open/615649/33 "2012-03-29T01:18:15Z")
CANBERRA! Fuck. Fuck! Fuck, fuck, fuck and fuck! Fuck, fuck and bugger! Bugger, bugger, buggerty buggerty buggerty, fuck, fuck, arse! Balls, balls…fuckity, shit, shit, fuck and willy. Willy, shit and fuck and… tits. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-test-registration-is-open/615649/34 "2012-03-29T01:19:03Z")
Wow, that was tough. I remembered “Delilah” with only one second left. ☹ Any clue about the name of the massage which is a Japanese word meaning “finger touches” (I think?)? I put “renkei,” but I doubt it’s right. The potato question stumped me. Was Hamlet the one who was visited by the ghost, or King Lear? ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-test-registration-is-open/615649/35 "2012-03-29T01:19:03Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Just finished the test. Was it just me or did this one seem easier than the ones in the past? > > I don’t want to jinx it, but there were only three questions off the top of my head that I think I got wrong… > > -The one about a man with a potato named after him (No clue) > -The one about husband and wife restaurant reviewers (All I came up with was Z - a few seconds after time ran out I thought of “Zagat”) > -The star of The King’s Speech (I typed “Colin Rush”; shortly after typing it I realized I was thinking of Colin Firth) > > How’d you guys do? I’m going to pretend I was just flustered because I got held up on my way home and had to rush to log in in time, but I did NOT have an easier time this time. There were several that I knew but didn’t type fast enough, and I lost count of ones I just didn’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-test-registration-is-open/615649/36 "2012-03-29T01:19:31Z")
Ditto on the “Bob Dylan Thomas” question - in retrospect I realize I didn’t read the category title on that one. I did, however, get Canberra. And a 12-letter-word for an emporium of men’s hats. 🙂 I believe the finger massage was “shiatsu”. And it was Macbeth who killed Banquo and was visited by his ghost. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-test-registration-is-open/615649/37 "2012-03-29T01:20:48Z")
Yes, _haberdashery_ was Fred G. Sanford’s gift to my long term memory. Concur on _shiatsu_ and _Macbeth_. Also, sorry to **MPB in Salt Lake** , I thought you were looking for an official means. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-test-registration-is-open/615649/38 "2012-03-29T01:21:50Z")
Without cheating (still) I think King’s Speech guy was Geoffrey Rush (pirate guy). What the hell was the Before & After one? Sang like a rolling stone & something dickens-ish?! I hate those goofy categories ones… ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-test-registration-is-open/615649/39 "2012-03-29T01:22:53Z")
I thought the _King’s Speech_ question said it was the King. That was Firth, not Rush. Anybody got an answer for the Norway painting? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-test-registration-is-open/615649/40 "2012-03-29T01:23:24Z")
In retrospect, I also missed the Steven Spielberg question - the correct answer is “Jaws” and I came up with “Creepshow”. Apparently I had the wrong Steven on my mind. 45/50 ain’t bad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-test-registration-is-open/615649.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-test-registration-is-open/615649.md?page=3)