Tuesday J! Test

[MarleysGh0st]

In “Great Expectations,” this aged lady still wears her wedding dress — Drew a blank. Kept imagining the South Park episode

Miss Haversham (sp?)

I remembered that one thanks to the Tuesday Next series!

[TheCalvinator24]

Sculptures — Elgin Marbles
Great Expectations — Miss Havisham

[MarleysGh0st]

Sculptures — Elgin Marbles
Great Expectations — Miss Havisham

I wonder if "Elgin" will be enough for that one?




You know what? As horrible as it felt at the time, I think I passed with a 38.

[DaveSenior72]

Do we have a definitive answer on the Hindu God avatar question yet?

[MarleysGh0st]

Do we have a definitive answer on the Hindu God avatar question yet?

J! Board poster agrees with Vishnu.

[goongas]

I got 33 right, not enough I imagine...

[TheCalvinator24]

Steve Chu Nobel — Lasers
Smallest Great Lake — Ontario
9 tsp — 3 tbsp
Benjamin Button — Cate Blanchett
War of 1812 — Madison (embarrassed I had to look this up)
Mozart — Jupiter
Zamenhoff — Esperanto
Divine Comedy — Purgatorio
Second Largest Island — New Guinea
"Place of Freedom" — Liberia
Scarpetta — Cornwell
First Black woman on US Stamp — Tubman
"White ants" — Termites
1620 Ship — Mayflower (also embarrassed I had to check)
Sasha Fierce — Beyonce
Murders in the Rue Morgue — Poe
Rebuilt to defend Sui Dynasty —Great Wall of China
Ice Cream Flavor — Rocky Road
Nicholas II — Romanov
Word derived from Knight's who sold their service — freelance
Scottish Chef — Ramsay
Out of Africa author — Dinesen
Frenchman early photos — Daguerre
Midwestern state abbreviation/preposition: INdiana
Crossword clue--"PRIVILEGE"
Half ____ Alaska — Baked
One Comercial tune — Single Jingle
Word for timely or giving an actor lines — Prompt
Four Seasons Composer — Vivaldi
Cleveland Cavalier — LeBron James
Topsy & Simon Legree — Uncle Tom's Cabin
Sharks sang in Spanish — West Side Story
Bush at War — Woodward
Swiss Alp — Matterhorn
Arabian Nights — Scheherazade (Hope for leniency on spelling, and if so add one to my guessed correct)
1900's toy — Teddy Bears
Shakespeare — a summer's day
Element — Californium
Arm bone — Humerus
John the Baptist river — Jordan
Archimedes — Lever
Chair with a sword — Damocles
Oregon Trail — Wyoming
House of Reps — 435
Retail Store — Target
Moon Seas — Mare
Dickens — Miss Havisham
Parthenon sculptures — Elgin Marbles
Hindu God — Vishnu
Bonnie Prince — Charlie

[hbomb1947]

I'm pretty sure I got between a 40 and a 43, depending on how my 2 misspellings (Vishna and Dineen) and my at-or-just-after-the-buzzer response (on Lake Ontario) are scored.

[DaveSenior72]

By Cal's updated list, I think I pulled off a 39 or 40

Guess we'll see if I get called

[christie1111]

30, oh well.

I do feel like I did better than last year.

Back to WWTBAM!

[TheCalvinator24]

38 if Liberia is correct and they accept my spelling of Scheherazade ( i think i wrote sheherezad)

[MarleysGh0st]

Back to WWTBAM!

That's still my first choice.

Meredith should be really, really impressed by all of us who've been trying out for ten years, right?

[MarleysGh0st]

38 if Liberia is correct and they accept my spelling of Scheherazade ( i think i wrote sheherezad)

It's phonetically correct.

And if they were prepared for any mispellings, as they said they were, it'd be on that question!

[TheCalvinator24]

Finally confirmed Liberia.

So, it's 38 if they accept Daguerro (i'm going to assume on Scheherazade). Even if they ding me on Daguerre, I still have 37.

[gotribego26]

I thini I have 38 - my Sheherezade spelling was a bit closer.

[plasticene]

Moon's Seas = Mare

Mare is singular. I put the plural, Maria.

I missed:
Woodward (Bernstein, d'oh!)
three tablespoons (six)
Cornwell (was searching for Grafton; just as well that I didn't find her!)
prompt (on the tip of my tongue and all that)
435 (changed from 435 to 436, ouch!)
New Guinea (struggling to remember which of Ellesmere and Baffin is bigger, oops)
Beyonce (yeah right. WAGged Lopez)

Had a hard time pulling Blanchett, barely figured out LeBron James, wasn't 100% on Mayflower, took a while on and misspelled privilege as privelege. All the rest I felt sure of really quickly. Since I signed up for Los Angeles (obviously), I think I've got a good chance to get an audition.

[silverscreenselect]

I think I got 42 or 43. I've drawn a blank on whether I actually wrote summer's day for the Shakespeare question (I think I did).

I spelled Romanov-Romanoff but they should give me credit for that.

On the humorous/humerus answer, do you have to give both of them or just one to get it correct? I just gave humerus.

I'm kicking myself about Bob Woodruff.

[Kazoo65]

I got 40 (by my count) right. I timed out on "teddy bears". I just got the first three lettes in before the next question came up.

I can't believe I brain froze on "prompt". It came to me later.

Now the waiting starts..........

[clem21]

And a solid 26 for me this year...

Hay tiempo, hay tiempo.....

[frogman042]

38 right by my reckoning - I'm not sure that is good enough though.

I guessed 'cue' on the acting question - instead of prompt. Got lucky on Beyonce as a WAG and blew Mayflower and Indiana that I feel I should have gotten. The rest that I missed I didn't have a clue.

[sunflower]

I believe I got 22...I'm hoping they look for close answers and think maybe I'd be a quick to answer but not always right kind of contestant? Maybe not but it's all I got. I had Kate Winslet instead of Cate Blanchett (duh)...read the question as Great Gatsby instead of Great Expectations...wrote New Zealand when I meant New Guinea, while looking at the map next to the computer...

But proud to say last night when I was watching Food Network, I decided to make sure I had all my chefs straight...and on the way home tonight, was thinking to myself that I thought Vivaldi would be a good answer (although the thought started as who is that guy who did that thing...)

Can't win them all, and I'm not eligible til May anyway! Maybe next year!

[SportsFan68]

Of those in the first post, I woulda got 23.

No J! for me.

[TheCalvinator24]

For those "playing along at home," if you just look at the abbreviated clues posted here, I think you can't get an accurate assessment. Oftentimes, there is a secondary clue in the wording. You should check out the J! Board for an actual transcript.

[slam]

38 right by my reckoning - I'm not sure that is good enough though.

I guessed 'cue' on the acting question - instead of prompt. Got lucky on Beyonce as a WAG and blew Mayflower and Indiana that I feel I should have gotten. The rest that I missed I didn't have a clue.

I took the test from the thread. I take it for real tonight. Wish I had taken it last night as I passed comfortably (45).

I also went with "cue". It almost feels right. It fits one part of the clue and "on cue" fits the other part. I'd guess they won't give credit for it but wouldn't be shocked if they did.

[TheCalvinator24]

38 right by my reckoning - I'm not sure that is good enough though.

I guessed 'cue' on the acting question - instead of prompt. Got lucky on Beyonce as a WAG and blew Mayflower and Indiana that I feel I should have gotten. The rest that I missed I didn't have a clue.

I took the test from the thread. I take it for real tonight. Wish I had taken it last night as I passed comfortably (45).

I also went with "cue". It almost feels right. It fits one part of the clue and "on cue" fits the other part. I'd guess they won't give credit for it but wouldn't be shocked if they did.

"Cue" does not fit the acting part of the clue. To cue someone is to give them the line before theirs. To prompt them is to give them their line.