# Upcoming "Jeopardy!" on-line test **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 27, 2011, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-jeopardy-on-line-test/607495 "2011-12-27T06:05:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-jeopardy-on-line-test/607495/81 "2012-01-20T04:22:05Z")
Who was the children’s author? I put Roald Dahl as a guess but don’t remember the clue. I did not get Cleveland Plain Dealer. I wish I’d had time to link to the Lucille Bluth quote as my answer: “I don’t understand the question and I won’t respond.” ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-jeopardy-on-line-test/607495/82 "2012-01-20T04:22:53Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Damn, that was hard. I blanked on a few that I know I knew, I just couldn’t get in 15 seconds, like the 12 letter word for a doctor who works on the brain. I ended up just writing “brain surgeon.” Hey, it has 12 letters! Me too. That countdown timer was laughing at me. So does “neurosurgeon” That one i got, there were others, like Jackson Pollack that just wouldn’t fall out of my head. ---
**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 20, 2012, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-jeopardy-on-line-test/607495/83 "2012-01-20T04:22:58Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Who was the children’s author? I put Roald Dahl as a guess but don’t remember the clue. I had no clue on that one or Macedonia. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-jeopardy-on-line-test/607495/84 "2012-01-20T04:23:50Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Who was the children’s author? I put Roald Dahl as a guess but don’t remember the clue. No clue, I also put Dahl. Something about a Bippalo Seed? What was Macedonia? Was that the World Capitol one? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-jeopardy-on-line-test/607495/85 "2012-01-20T04:24:30Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > No clue, I also put Dahl. Something about a ? In that case, Google says Seuss. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-jeopardy-on-line-test/607495/86 "2012-01-20T04:25:37Z")
I got neurosurgeon but was desperately trying to count the letters in it as I typed (didn’t work). I can’t believe I didn’t get GLEE. (That’s the one I hit “Submit” on once too often.) ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-jeopardy-on-line-test/607495/87 "2012-01-20T04:26:18Z")
Yeah, “The Bippalo Seed and Other Lost Stories.” That’s what clued me to Seuss. Silly word plus lost story = people would only care if it was Seuss. 🙂 Oh, yeah, one of the easy ones was “The assassination of this archduke triggered World War I.” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-jeopardy-on-line-test/607495/88 "2012-01-20T04:27:10Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Yeah, “The and Other Lost Stories.” That’s what clued me to Seuss. Silly word plus lost story = people would only care if it was Seuss. 🙂 > > Oh, yeah, one of the easy ones was “The assassination of this archduke triggered World War I.” To which I put Franz Ferdinand. I hope their grader program knows that’s the same as Francis (and vice versa). ---
**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 20, 2012, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-jeopardy-on-line-test/607495/89 "2012-01-20T04:27:55Z")
I was amazed that with some categories they happened to pick the one subject I knew about. It was that way in the practice test too. ---
**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 20, 2012, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-jeopardy-on-line-test/607495/90 "2012-01-20T04:28:57Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > To which I put Franz Ferdinand. I hope their grader program knows that’s the same as Francis (and vice versa). That’s why you should always give the last name only. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-jeopardy-on-line-test/607495/91 "2012-01-20T04:30:10Z")
[QUOTE=Eyebrows of Doom] What was Macedonia? Was that the World Capitol one? [/QUOTE] Yes- Skopje. I blanked and put Bulgaria (sounded eastern European and sounded maybe right, but Bulgaria’s capital is Sofia). ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-jeopardy-on-line-test/607495/92 "2012-01-20T04:31:36Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > That’s why you should always give the last name only. von Habsburg-Lothringen? ---
**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 20, 2012, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-jeopardy-on-line-test/607495/93 "2012-01-20T04:31:55Z")
I got Macedonia, because it’s the only country around there whose capital I don’t know. Instantaneous deduction. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-jeopardy-on-line-test/607495/94 "2012-01-20T05:21:10Z")
My total score was 31 (assuming that just “Rockefeller” was okay for naming John D. Rockefeller Jr.). Better than the other two tests, which I took “for fun” from transcripts, but still not good enough, as predicted. Ah, well. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-jeopardy-on-line-test/607495/95 "2012-01-20T05:38:39Z")
I got 31 as well. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-jeopardy-on-line-test/607495/96 "2012-01-20T08:32:09Z")
What’s with the Jeopardy! forums?? That’s where we can usually get the recap of Q&A, or A&Q in this case . 😉 ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-jeopardy-on-line-test/607495/97 "2012-01-20T12:52:00Z")
[http://jboard.tv/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=495&sid=46c177cc358076bd51e3c6cc711e7833#](http://jboard.tv/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=495&sid=46c177cc358076bd51e3c6cc711e7833#) It’s Posted here, where are you looking that you can’t find it? ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-jeopardy-on-line-test/607495/98 "2012-01-20T17:02:22Z")
Well I certainly took it the best night…I would have gotten 20/21 wrong on last night’s, and 18/19 wrong on Wednesdays. But still, getting a 34/50 isn’t good enough…the consensus is that the cut-off is 35. ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-jeopardy-on-line-test/607495/99 "2012-01-20T18:04:19Z")
Took Wednesday’s test and only got 32 correct. Very disappointing, wish I would have taken the earlier test as I did much better. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-jeopardy-on-line-test/607495/100 "2012-01-20T18:52:25Z")
I think I got 46/50 on Thursday’s test… fingers crossed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-jeopardy-on-line-test/607495.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upcoming-jeopardy-on-line-test/607495.md?page=6)