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#26 Post by MarleysGh0st » Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:04 am

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!

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#27 Post by earendel » Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:35 am

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!
Just looking at the questions, I'd concur with your assessment that this was an easier test.
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."

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#28 Post by earendel » Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:40 am

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 :lol:

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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#29 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:18 am

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.

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#30 Post by MarleysGh0st » Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:23 am

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.
Good for Maddie!

She knows that game show auditions are a family priority! 8)

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#31 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:26 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
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.
Good for Maddie!

She knows that game show auditions are a family priority! 8)
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.

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#32 Post by VAdame » Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:01 am

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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#33 Post by MarleysGh0st » Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:56 am

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!
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...

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#34 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:23 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:
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!
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...
When I took it last time, I quickly learned to give myself the full 15 seconds.

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#35 Post by slam » Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:23 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:
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!
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 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.

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#36 Post by earendel » Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:50 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:
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!
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...
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.
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#37 Post by MarleysGh0st » Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:00 pm

earendel wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:
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!
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...
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.
Now there's a nasty "What If?" you should have anticipated:

What if the power fails when you're 8.2 minutes into a 12.5 minute online test? :evil:



I think you should just accept that you got screwed by a bizarre coincidence and let it go at that.

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#38 Post by ne1410s » Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:11 pm

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...
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#39 Post by Kazoo65 » Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:14 pm

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.
I'm just a game show nerd.

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#40 Post by earendel » Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:26 pm

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.
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.
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#41 Post by ghostjmf » Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:42 pm

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"....

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#42 Post by MarleysGh0st » Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:53 pm

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"....
From playing two years and reading discussions about previous tests. As you noted, the test demo was lacking.

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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#43 Post by Appa23 » Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:59 pm

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...
I can see only a few that do not seem right.

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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#44 Post by slam » Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:01 pm

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"....
This tidbit was in the on-line instructions for the test.
Look under "Timing".

http://www.jeopardy.com/onlinetests/nat ... 8/info.php

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#45 Post by Spock » Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:30 pm

Not looking good-

39 I think.

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#46 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:15 pm

I am happy. I think that I missed five or six.

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#47 Post by Bob Juch » Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:23 pm

I don't know that I missed any, but did some guessing.
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