# Online Jeopardy Auditions return **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500 "2008-01-14T18:12:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**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:** [January 31, 2008, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/121 "2008-01-31T02:23:24Z")
Just a thought – did this year’s test seem to be slanted to more recent popular culture? As if they were trying to skew the demographics away from us old farts? ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/122 "2008-01-31T02:26:52Z")
Hague plague… I did think of hague but didn’t have time to get any further. Well, just like last year there was 10-12 questions I had no prayer on (next year I need English teacher wife sitting next to me for all the literature stuff), but also the really frustrating have-to-read-the-question-twice-to-understand-what-it’s-asking-now-there’s-only-two-seconds-left-oh-whats-that-word-type-something-boopboopboop-crap-“Reciprocal!” ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/123 "2008-01-31T03:05:03Z")
Last year a Jeopardy fansite posted a test transcript with all the answers. Does anyone have a link to a site that’s doing that this year? There was definitely a current events slant. And what’s with “Hague Plague”? The answer was obviously “Holland Fallin’” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/124 "2008-01-31T03:08:24Z")
[QUOTE=Justin\_Bailey] Last year a Jeopardy fansite posted a test transcript with all the answers. Does anyone have a link to a site that’s doing that this year? There was definitely a current events slant. And what’s with “Hague Plague”? The answer was obviously “Holland Fallin’” :smack: [/QUOTE] [Here’s a transcript](http://boards.sonypictures.com/boards/showthread.php?t=35242). No answers though. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/125 "2008-01-31T03:28:41Z")
Going through that transcript, I think I got about 28. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/126 "2008-01-31T03:33:00Z")
Darn it, I misread “This” for “His” in the 1st Law of Motion question…I said inertia and of course the answer is Newton. D’oh, blew an easy one there. I completely passed on the British novel prize and the 2007 Tony award winner and made a best guess on about six others…so I think maybe I got around 40. That was fun though… ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/127 "2008-01-31T04:01:10Z")
36 on the transcript for sure, maybe 38. Still not great, and that’s not under pressure. ---
**Author:** ![atomicbadgerrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@atomicbadgerrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atomicbadgerrace)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/128 "2008-01-31T04:10:26Z")
Hmm… I know that hindsight is 20/20 and all, but in retrospect, I should’ve waited and taken tonight’s online test. Going through that transcript, my score would have been 37. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/129 "2008-01-31T04:32:43Z")
[QUOTE=atomicbadgerrace] Hmm… I know that hindsight is 20/20 and all, but in retrospect, I should’ve waited and taken tonight’s online test. Going through that transcript, my score would have been 37. [/QUOTE] I thought you could only take the test for your geographic region. ---
**Author:** ![atomicbadgerrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@atomicbadgerrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atomicbadgerrace)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/130 "2008-01-31T04:37:17Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] I thought you could only take the test for your geographic region. [/QUOTE] No, you can take any of the three tests offered, but you can only take one. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/131 "2008-01-31T04:39:01Z")
[QUOTE=atomicbadgerrace] Hmm… I know that hindsight is 20/20 and all, but in retrospect, I should’ve waited and taken tonight’s online test. Going through that transcript, my score would have been 37. [/QUOTE] Agreed - I think I would have 40 or so on that one (compared to 33 last night). Oh well, serves me right for going outside my time zone - gotta respect the Central. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/132 "2008-01-31T06:11:15Z")
I wonder how these things are graded. I’m sure it’s computerized, but I wonder if it’s a program that uses fuzzy logic or grades precisely, because I know I made some misspellings (Heissman for Heisman, habeus instead of habeas, Wells Fargo instead of American Express, etc.). If they aren’t too severe on spelling then I got 36, if they do then I got a few less. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/133 "2008-01-31T06:26:52Z")
[QUOTE=atomicbadgerrace] Transcript up, with answers, [here](http://boards.sonypictures.com/boards/showpost.php?p=683591&postcount=52). By my count, and memory, I got 29. Rats. [/QUOTE] I think I got 40 or 41 (can’t remember if I guessed Nice or Marseilles for the city on the French Riviera one) ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/134 "2008-01-31T07:11:12Z")
Ick. I got maybe 32. I’ve taken the _Jeopardy!_ test three times, and I think this will be the first time I’ve failed. (I got called to appear on the show once, in 2003, but I had to go on a can’t-miss business trip that week. Yeah, I’m still bitter.) ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/135 "2008-01-31T08:25:35Z")
[QUOTE=atomicbadgerrace] Transcript up, with answers, [here](http://boards.sonypictures.com/boards/showpost.php?p=683591&postcount=52). By my count, and memory, I got 29. Rats. [/QUOTE] Wow…I got spanked like a whore in heat. And I always thought I was pretty smart…until now. I will retire to the duncery… ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/136 "2008-01-31T13:50:35Z")
I’m right beside you. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/137 "2008-01-31T15:22:40Z")
[QUOTE=Garfield226] [Here’s a transcript](http://boards.sonypictures.com/boards/showthread.php?t=35242). No answers though. [/QUOTE] Thanks for the transcript. I got 22. I am officially a moron. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/138 "2008-01-31T17:22:53Z")
[QUOTE=Justin\_Bailey] Thanks for the transcript. I got 22. I am officially a moron. [/QUOTE] Looks like I got 28. Or maybe 29, depending on whether I get credit for the Netherlands flag question (I thought of it when time was almost up, and got out “netherla” before the timer buzzed me). Not as good as I’d hoped. I can’t believe I missed “bureaucrat.” It hit me when I looked at the question again this morning. Same with “reciprocal”; knew it, but couldn’t think of the word. At least I got “ungulate” and “K2”… ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/139 "2008-02-01T00:42:36Z")
I got 29. It was pretty fun, I will say that! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/140 "2008-02-01T00:53:46Z")
I wonder, just out of idle curiosity, how many the average “person on the street” would know. The numbers above in the high twenties and thirties are, imho, not too shabby and way above what the average person would get. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500.md?page=8)