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Just took J! test

#1 Post by Kazoo65 » Tue Jan 07, 2014 6:15 pm

I thought this one was easier than the one I took last year. I knew more of the questions-that's helpful.

Plenty of pop culture (recent movies, books, music), the standard Shakespeare and ballet questions, no opera this time (thankfully) plus assorted other topics. I blanked out on an element (couldn't remember what the symbol they gave stood for) and a French queen.

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#2 Post by MarleysGh0st » Tue Jan 07, 2014 6:17 pm

I had way too many brain freezes to pass this one, I think.

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#3 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Tue Jan 07, 2014 6:27 pm

I missed the Medici French Queen too
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#4 Post by Appa23 » Tue Jan 07, 2014 6:50 pm

Didn't take test, but I wish that I did, if there was a ballet question.

Pirouette appears to be the answer, but what was the question?
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#5 Post by Kazoo65 » Tue Jan 07, 2014 7:32 pm

The ballet question was something like "it's a term for when a dancer turns on one foot" (I don't remember the exact words) which I knew is a pirouette. I have a friend who used to be a professional dancer-she would know this one!
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#6 Post by goongas » Tue Jan 07, 2014 7:33 pm

36, embarrassed at some of my misses.
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#7 Post by plasticene » Tue Jan 07, 2014 7:44 pm

[b]BALLET MOVES[/b] wrote: A FULL TURN OF THE BODY ON ONE FOOT, IT'S FROM THE MIDDLE FRENCH FOR "SPINNING TOP"
I'm not taking the test for real until Thursday, but tonight's total was 44/50. From #11 to #23, I was 7/13, so I'll have to remember not to panic if I hit a bad stretch.
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#8 Post by silverscreenselect » Tue Jan 07, 2014 11:41 pm

This is the first time I can recall not taking the test the first night it was offered because I wasn't sure I'd get back by 7:00. Then, my meeting got cancelled due to the cold weather so I worked from home anyway.

Going off the J-Board, I got 47 out of 50, but there were a couple I'm not sure I would have gotten in 15 seconds if I'd actually been on the clock.

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#9 Post by Bob Juch » Wed Jan 08, 2014 5:41 am

It was too cold to play Team Trivia last night so I took the test. I think I had 46 right.
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#10 Post by Bob Juch » Wed Jan 08, 2014 5:42 am

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:I missed the Medici French Queen too
Was the right answer Catherine or Marie? BOTH were French queens.
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#11 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Wed Jan 08, 2014 8:36 am

Bob Juch wrote:
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:I missed the Medici French Queen too
Was the right answer Catherine or Marie? BOTH were French queens.
Catherine

And I got 36 out of 50 this time
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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#12 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Wed Jan 08, 2014 8:38 am

goongas wrote:36, embarrassed at some of my misses.
Don't think you are the only one
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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#13 Post by Kazoo65 » Wed Jan 08, 2014 10:05 am

I just checked the J bored to see how I did. I got 44 out of 50-that's pretty good. I hope they gave me credit for my mangled spelling of "Pterodactyl".
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#14 Post by ghostjmf » Wed Jan 08, 2014 11:59 am

Well, I missed 11. Two were smack-my-head questions where the answers didn't drop out until 3 Qs later, despite being on "the tip of my brain".


So I should still be in the call-back range if 35 right is the cut-off. But I was there last year & got no call/letter/whatever they do nowadays.
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#15 Post by gsabc » Wed Jan 08, 2014 12:24 pm

Somewhere between 37 and 39, depending on scoring of partially typed answers. Would have been 40-plus but had a couple of misreads on the clue due to being stupid and not reading the category first. Definitely need to bone up on recent pop culture.

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#16 Post by earendel » Wed Jan 08, 2014 1:00 pm

Sheesh! I got off to a bad start (couldn't remember Thurgood Marshall or Queen Victoria), said Richard II rather than III, blanked on "Captain Morgan", couldn't rearrange letters to get "flounder", put "Sam-I-Am" and tried to correct it but not in time, said "Ender's Song" instead of "Game", blanked on "lingo", "Terry McMillan", "Rihanna", and "Elizabeth Barrett Browning". Put me down for a 38, possibly my worst score ever.
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#17 Post by goongas » Wed Jan 08, 2014 8:25 pm

ghost, they send an email if you are invited to an audition.
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