Jeopardy Test
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Just looking at the questions, I'd concur with your assessment that this was an easier test.MarleysGh0st wrote:Hmmm.
I think this test might have been marginally better for me than Tuesday's. Or else my mind is just recovering from the shock that one game me.
Good luck to everyone taking tonight's test!
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."
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JFF I think I'll try this.
CABLE TV
This MTV series has put young people in cities such as Denver, Miami &, most recently, Sydney
REAL WORLD
WESTERN U.S. CITIES
It's Oregon's third-largest city & its capital
SALEM
ARTISTS
He painted several views of the Saint-Paul Hospital Garden in 1889
PASS
AUTHORS
This Baltimore author of "The Gold-Bug" was buried in an unmarked grave in 1849
POE
BRITISH ROYALTY
Henry VII was the first king of this English dynasty
TUDOR
MOUNTAINS
Also known as Godwin Austen, it's the second-highest mountain in the world
K-2
PHYSICS
His first law of motion includes the fact that an object at rest tends to stay at rest
NEWTON
TIME'S PERSON OF THE YEAR
This world leader was named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2007
AHAMINEDJAD
SPICES
This spice, closely associated with Hungarian cuisine, was introduced by the Turks in 1526
PAPRIKA
INTERNATIONAL PRIZES
In 1993, Salman Rushie's "Midnight's Children" won this, the most prestigious British award for novels
PASS
MOVIE STARS
In a 2007 film, he plays the "Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
JOHNNY DEPP
LITERARY CHARACTERS
Regan, Goneril & Cordelia were this character's daughters
LEAR
SPORTS AWARDS
Florida's Tim Tebow is the first sophomore to win this award in its 72-year history
HEISMAN TROPHY
FROM THE FRENCH
French words meaning "office rule" gave us this word for an official rigidly devoted to rules
BUREAUCRAT
WORLD CAPITALS
It's the capital of Canada
OTTAWA
TREATIES
This 1853 purchase gave the U.S. parts of Arizona & New Mexico
GADSDEN PURCHASE
COMPOSERS
His "Tanhauser" & "Lohengrin" preceded his "Ring Cycle"
WAGNER
POETS
In 1854 he wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
TENNYSON
COMMON BONDS
Coral, krait, moccasin
SNAKE
RHYME TIME
A calamity that befalls the Dutch seat of government
HAGUE PLAGUE
BROADWAY
This 2007 Tony winner for Best Musical was based on an 1891 German play about young love
PASS
THE MIDDLE AGES
A record of all the land in England, this "Book" was commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1085
DOMESDAY BOOK
BIOLOGY
From the Greek for "change", this one-celled animal consists of protoplasm surrounded by a membrane
AMOEBA
BUSINESS BIGGIES
In 1891 this New York financial firm introduced the world's first traveler's checks
AMERICAN EXPRESS
2007 NEWS
A short-lived 2007 protest was led by monks in this neighbor of Thailand
MYANMAR
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Playwright Amiri Baraka, who wrote "The Baptism" & "The Slave", graduated from this D.C. university
GEORGETOWN
LAND ANIMALS
The humpless vicuna is the smallest member of this family
CAMEL
FLAGS
This European nation's flag was originally orange, white & blue; the orange eventually became red
NETHERLANDS
PSYCHOLOGISTS
His "box" tested operant conditioning in animals
SKINNER
BOOKS OF THE BIBLE
With 150 chapters, this is the longest book in the Bible
PSALMS
POP MUSIC
This British soul singer garnered 6 Grammy nominations for 2008, including Best New Artist
BLAKE
PRESIDENTS
He was president when World War I broke out
WILSON
WORLD CITIES
Opened in 1973, this city's opera house has 2 sail-like roofs made of overlapping shells
SYDNEY
MATHEMATICS
Meaning inversely related, in math is describes what 2/3 is to 3/2
RECIPROCAL
HEADLINES
Former senator George Mitchell headed the investigation into the use of these
STEROIDS
EUROPEAN HISTORY
Donatello was born in this city, where he assisted Ghiberti in finishing the bronze doors of the baptistery
FLORENCE
LITERARY PLACES
In a Dickens novel, Esther is the ward of Mr. Jarndyce & lives with him at this title residence
BLEAK HOUSE
THE BEAUTIFUL SEA
The Danube eventually empties into this sea
BLACK SEA
STARTS WITH "S"
It can mean transparently thin, or perfectly vertical, like a cliff
SHEER
"UN" WITH WORDS
The order to which hooved mammals belong
UNGULATES
BOOKS TO MOVIES
This Khalid Hosseini novel about 2 boys in Afghanistan was made into a 2007 film
THE KITE FLYER
RADIO PERSONALITIES
"All Things Considered", she's NPR's award-winning legal affairs correspondent
TOTENBERG
THE LAW
Latin for "produce the body", so far this right has been denied to the Guantanamo detainees
HABEUS CORPUS
AUTHORS
This "Water-Method Man" played by "The Cider House Rules"
U.S. HISTORY
The golden spike at Promontory in this state, marked the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
UTAH
AROUND THE WORLD
Ubud is considered the cultural center of Bali, in this island nation
INDONESIA
WORLD AUTHORS
His "Just So Stories" came shortly after his "Kim"
KIPLING
NAMES IN THE NEWS
In 2007, Carlos Slim Helu overtook this man as the richest man in the world
GATES
PARTS OF SPEECH
This part of speech usually ends with "LY"
ADVERB
LAST HURRAHS
His last concert was at Indianapolis Market Square Arena on June 26, 1977
ELVIS
**Looks like at least 40 right**
CABLE TV
This MTV series has put young people in cities such as Denver, Miami &, most recently, Sydney
REAL WORLD
WESTERN U.S. CITIES
It's Oregon's third-largest city & its capital
SALEM
ARTISTS
He painted several views of the Saint-Paul Hospital Garden in 1889
PASS
AUTHORS
This Baltimore author of "The Gold-Bug" was buried in an unmarked grave in 1849
POE
BRITISH ROYALTY
Henry VII was the first king of this English dynasty
TUDOR
MOUNTAINS
Also known as Godwin Austen, it's the second-highest mountain in the world
K-2
PHYSICS
His first law of motion includes the fact that an object at rest tends to stay at rest
NEWTON
TIME'S PERSON OF THE YEAR
This world leader was named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2007
AHAMINEDJAD
SPICES
This spice, closely associated with Hungarian cuisine, was introduced by the Turks in 1526
PAPRIKA
INTERNATIONAL PRIZES
In 1993, Salman Rushie's "Midnight's Children" won this, the most prestigious British award for novels
PASS
MOVIE STARS
In a 2007 film, he plays the "Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
JOHNNY DEPP
LITERARY CHARACTERS
Regan, Goneril & Cordelia were this character's daughters
LEAR
SPORTS AWARDS
Florida's Tim Tebow is the first sophomore to win this award in its 72-year history
HEISMAN TROPHY
FROM THE FRENCH
French words meaning "office rule" gave us this word for an official rigidly devoted to rules
BUREAUCRAT

WORLD CAPITALS
It's the capital of Canada
OTTAWA
TREATIES
This 1853 purchase gave the U.S. parts of Arizona & New Mexico
GADSDEN PURCHASE
COMPOSERS
His "Tanhauser" & "Lohengrin" preceded his "Ring Cycle"
WAGNER
POETS
In 1854 he wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
TENNYSON
COMMON BONDS
Coral, krait, moccasin
SNAKE
RHYME TIME
A calamity that befalls the Dutch seat of government
HAGUE PLAGUE
BROADWAY
This 2007 Tony winner for Best Musical was based on an 1891 German play about young love
PASS
THE MIDDLE AGES
A record of all the land in England, this "Book" was commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1085
DOMESDAY BOOK
BIOLOGY
From the Greek for "change", this one-celled animal consists of protoplasm surrounded by a membrane
AMOEBA
BUSINESS BIGGIES
In 1891 this New York financial firm introduced the world's first traveler's checks
AMERICAN EXPRESS
2007 NEWS
A short-lived 2007 protest was led by monks in this neighbor of Thailand
MYANMAR
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Playwright Amiri Baraka, who wrote "The Baptism" & "The Slave", graduated from this D.C. university
GEORGETOWN
LAND ANIMALS
The humpless vicuna is the smallest member of this family
CAMEL
FLAGS
This European nation's flag was originally orange, white & blue; the orange eventually became red
NETHERLANDS
PSYCHOLOGISTS
His "box" tested operant conditioning in animals
SKINNER
BOOKS OF THE BIBLE
With 150 chapters, this is the longest book in the Bible
PSALMS
POP MUSIC
This British soul singer garnered 6 Grammy nominations for 2008, including Best New Artist
BLAKE
PRESIDENTS
He was president when World War I broke out
WILSON
WORLD CITIES
Opened in 1973, this city's opera house has 2 sail-like roofs made of overlapping shells
SYDNEY
MATHEMATICS
Meaning inversely related, in math is describes what 2/3 is to 3/2
RECIPROCAL
HEADLINES
Former senator George Mitchell headed the investigation into the use of these
STEROIDS
EUROPEAN HISTORY
Donatello was born in this city, where he assisted Ghiberti in finishing the bronze doors of the baptistery
FLORENCE
LITERARY PLACES
In a Dickens novel, Esther is the ward of Mr. Jarndyce & lives with him at this title residence
BLEAK HOUSE
THE BEAUTIFUL SEA
The Danube eventually empties into this sea
BLACK SEA
STARTS WITH "S"
It can mean transparently thin, or perfectly vertical, like a cliff
SHEER
"UN" WITH WORDS
The order to which hooved mammals belong
UNGULATES
BOOKS TO MOVIES
This Khalid Hosseini novel about 2 boys in Afghanistan was made into a 2007 film
THE KITE FLYER
RADIO PERSONALITIES
"All Things Considered", she's NPR's award-winning legal affairs correspondent
TOTENBERG
THE LAW
Latin for "produce the body", so far this right has been denied to the Guantanamo detainees
HABEUS CORPUS
AUTHORS
This "Water-Method Man" played by "The Cider House Rules"
U.S. HISTORY
The golden spike at Promontory in this state, marked the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
UTAH
AROUND THE WORLD
Ubud is considered the cultural center of Bali, in this island nation
INDONESIA
WORLD AUTHORS
His "Just So Stories" came shortly after his "Kim"
KIPLING
NAMES IN THE NEWS
In 2007, Carlos Slim Helu overtook this man as the richest man in the world
GATES
PARTS OF SPEECH
This part of speech usually ends with "LY"
ADVERB
LAST HURRAHS
His last concert was at Indianapolis Market Square Arena on June 26, 1977
ELVIS
**Looks like at least 40 right**
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."
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Good for Maddie!PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Maddie told me that I need to pick her up at 8:00 from Mock Trial tonight.
Her usual time to be picked up is 9:00. I asked her if she could stay longer so that I could take the test and she said it wouldn't be a problem.
She knows that game show auditions are a family priority!

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Given the fact that I get her to school by 6:50 each morning, drive her to Huntington Beach three times a week for Quiz Bowl, take her to Quiz Bowl matches, piano lessons, drama events and mock trial three days a week, she can be a little flexible.MarleysGh0st wrote:Good for Maddie!PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Maddie told me that I need to pick her up at 8:00 from Mock Trial tonight.
Her usual time to be picked up is 9:00. I asked her if she could stay longer so that I could take the test and she said it wouldn't be a problem.
She knows that game show auditions are a family priority!
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Or less! If you hit the return key after answering a question, it immediately goes to the next one. If you wait for the 15 seconds to expire, it automatically records your answer and you get a little breather...VAdame wrote:The test goes very quickly -- less than 15 minutes. Well.....50 Q's, 15 seconds per.....should be over in 12-1/2 minutes!
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When I took it last time, I quickly learned to give myself the full 15 seconds.MarleysGh0st wrote:Or less! If you hit the return key after answering a question, it immediately goes to the next one. If you wait for the 15 seconds to expire, it automatically records your answer and you get a little breather...VAdame wrote:The test goes very quickly -- less than 15 minutes. Well.....50 Q's, 15 seconds per.....should be over in 12-1/2 minutes!
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I think that's the preferred strategy. Slow down the pace of the test a little bit. At least that's what I did last year.MarleysGh0st wrote:Or less! If you hit the return key after answering a question, it immediately goes to the next one. If you wait for the 15 seconds to expire, it automatically records your answer and you get a little breather...VAdame wrote:The test goes very quickly -- less than 15 minutes. Well.....50 Q's, 15 seconds per.....should be over in 12-1/2 minutes!
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In retrospect, sitting here in my Jeopardypression (thanks, shinycar!!!!), I can't help but wonder if I might have finished the test if I had hit the <Enter> key as soon as I answered the question rather than let the 15 seconds expire.MarleysGh0st wrote:Or less! If you hit the return key after answering a question, it immediately goes to the next one. If you wait for the 15 seconds to expire, it automatically records your answer and you get a little breather...VAdame wrote:The test goes very quickly -- less than 15 minutes. Well.....50 Q's, 15 seconds per.....should be over in 12-1/2 minutes!
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."
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Now there's a nasty "What If?" you should have anticipated:earendel wrote:In retrospect, sitting here in my Jeopardypression (thanks, shinycar!!!!), I can't help but wonder if I might have finished the test if I had hit the <Enter> key as soon as I answered the question rather than let the 15 seconds expire.MarleysGh0st wrote:Or less! If you hit the return key after answering a question, it immediately goes to the next one. If you wait for the 15 seconds to expire, it automatically records your answer and you get a little breather...VAdame wrote:The test goes very quickly -- less than 15 minutes. Well.....50 Q's, 15 seconds per.....should be over in 12-1/2 minutes!
What if the power fails when you're 8.2 minutes into a 12.5 minute online test?

I think you should just accept that you got screwed by a bizarre coincidence and let it go at that.
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Ear, thank you for posting the quiz. I now believe that I did better than I thought(although some of our answers differ):mid-forties at worst.
I can't believe your bad luck with the weather because I know you would have done great on this one.
Now to just win the cyber lottery and get a shot at Chicago...
I can't believe your bad luck with the weather because I know you would have done great on this one.
Now to just win the cyber lottery and get a shot at Chicago...
"When you argue with a fool, there are two fools in the argument."
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RE: Jeopardy Test
I think I would have done better on last night's test, also. I can't believe I only got 33 right on Tuesday. I got "Eat, Pray, Love" mixed up with "The Secret"-neither of which I've read, but know from watching Oprah that they are both very popular.
Ear, I suggest that you e-mail the J! people and tell them what happened. Since this isn't covered in "technical problems" (as defined on their website) I bet they'd let you take the test tonight-if yo can stay up until 11PM EST! Try the jhelp@sony.com address they posted on the test launch page.
When does the Brain Bus start running again? I am thinking about bugging my TV station-I haven't sent them the annual e-mail yet.
Ear, I suggest that you e-mail the J! people and tell them what happened. Since this isn't covered in "technical problems" (as defined on their website) I bet they'd let you take the test tonight-if yo can stay up until 11PM EST! Try the jhelp@sony.com address they posted on the test launch page.
When does the Brain Bus start running again? I am thinking about bugging my TV station-I haven't sent them the annual e-mail yet.
I'm just a game show nerd.
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Re: RE: Jeopardy Test
I did try that, on Tuesday night, hoping I'd hear something back in time to take last night's test. No response, however, and nothing yet today. I'm guessing that the answer, should there be one, will be "no". After all, they have no way of determining whether I'm telling the truth or just someone who got frustrated, thought he'd fail, so quit the test early hoping to get an exemption. If I were in J!'s shoes that's the attitude I'd take - of necessity to prevent a flood of such occurrences.Kazoo65 wrote:Ear, I suggest that you e-mail the J! people and tell them what happened. Since this isn't covered in "technical problems" (as defined on their website) I bet they'd let you take the test tonight-if yo can stay up until 11PM EST! Try the jhelp@sony.com address they posted on the test launch page.
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."
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Marley says:
I expected my test-demo to be an "actual test demo", but all it was was a repeat of the sign-up-&-wait instructions. Did you folks learn the above from your test demos, or from having played last year's test?
I was convinced that if I didn't hit "submit", all would be lost. So of course I got no breathers. Not that I would have done much better with them. I recently realized I wrote the author's name when they wanted the detective's for one Q, so make that "19 wrong", not "18 wrong"....
Or less! If you hit the return key after answering a question, it immediately goes to the next one. If you wait for the 15 seconds to expire, it automatically records your answer and you get a little breather...
I expected my test-demo to be an "actual test demo", but all it was was a repeat of the sign-up-&-wait instructions. Did you folks learn the above from your test demos, or from having played last year's test?
I was convinced that if I didn't hit "submit", all would be lost. So of course I got no breathers. Not that I would have done much better with them. I recently realized I wrote the author's name when they wanted the detective's for one Q, so make that "19 wrong", not "18 wrong"....
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From playing two years and reading discussions about previous tests. As you noted, the test demo was lacking.ghostjmf wrote:Marley says:
Or less! If you hit the return key after answering a question, it immediately goes to the next one. If you wait for the 15 seconds to expire, it automatically records your answer and you get a little breather...
I expected my test-demo to be an "actual test demo", but all it was was a repeat of the sign-up-&-wait instructions. Did you folks learn the above from your test demos, or from having played last year's test?
I was convinced that if I didn't hit "submit", all would be lost. So of course I got no breathers. Not that I would have done much better with them. I recently realized I wrote the author's name when they wanted the detective's for one Q, so make that "19 wrong", not "18 wrong"....
Sometimes I let the timer expire, but that "time's up" buzzer was disconcerting, so sometimes I'd hit the Return key. Basically, the test just psyched me out, starting with that very first question that I was clueless on.
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I can see only a few that do not seem right.ne1410s wrote:Ear, thank you for posting the quiz. I now believe that I did better than I thought(although some of our answers differ):mid-forties at worst.
I can't believe your bad luck with the weather because I know you would have done great on this one.
Now to just win the cyber lottery and get a shot at Chicago...
Putin was 2007 Man of Year
Amy Winehouse seems to be the Grammy answer.
It is "The Kite Runner", not "The Kite Flyer"
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This tidbit was in the on-line instructions for the test.ghostjmf wrote:Marley says:
Or less! If you hit the return key after answering a question, it immediately goes to the next one. If you wait for the 15 seconds to expire, it automatically records your answer and you get a little breather...
I expected my test-demo to be an "actual test demo", but all it was was a repeat of the sign-up-&-wait instructions. Did you folks learn the above from your test demos, or from having played last year's test?
I was convinced that if I didn't hit "submit", all would be lost. So of course I got no breathers. Not that I would have done much better with them. I recently realized I wrote the author's name when they wanted the detective's for one Q, so make that "19 wrong", not "18 wrong"....
Look under "Timing".
http://www.jeopardy.com/onlinetests/nat ... 8/info.php
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I don't know that I missed any, but did some guessing.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.