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Yeah, I Took The Eastern Jeopardy Online Qualifier, Last Night

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Ben_Hecht, Feb 9, 2011.

  1. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member

    I KNOW I've made their first cut in the past, but KNOW I didn't make it, last night.

    Anyone else?
     
  2. statrat

    statrat Member

    Even though I'm a west coaster I took the East Coast west due to a work conflict. I'm pretty sure I didn't make the cut either.
     
  3. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    How do you find out about these things?
     
  4. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

    I took it ... pretty sure I bombed miserably. I expected to get at least 40 of the 50 correct. I'm lucky if I got 35. I have no idea what the standard for the first cut is, though.
     
  5. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

    Found the transcript and answers in the Jeopardy forums and, wow, I suck. Got half right, 25 out of 50. There were several that I knew, but blanked on (El Pollo Loco pissed me off), a few that I don't think I finished typing in time and a couple of 50/50 shots that went the wrong way. I think I could have hit 35-37 if all those had gone my way. Wish they administered the test more than once per year.
     
  6. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

    I put the questions and answers into a list below:

    1. WORLD AUTHORS
    Works by this Algerian-born Nobel Prize winner include "The Fall", "The Rebel" & "The Stranger"

    Albert Camus

    2. SCI FI MOVIES
    The 2009 film "District 9" dealt with the plight of extraterrestrial refugees in this country
    South Africa

    3. HOW'S THE WEATHER?
    Condition characterized by winds above 32 MPH & heavy snow
    Blizzard

    4. STRAIT AHEAD
    20 miles long & 2-10 miles wide, the Strait of this separates Italy from Sicily
    Messina

    5. IT WAS ALL YELLOW
    This flower of genus Taraxacum has leaves that are used in salads & roots that are made into a coffee-like drink
    Dandelion

    6. LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY
    In 1821 Panama broke away from Spain & became a province of this South American country
    Colombia

    7. MEMOIRS
    "Decision Points" is a 2010 nonfiction bestseller by this famous American
    George W. Bush

    8. GAMES
    One of the world's oldest games, it's also known as draughts
    Checkers

    9. CLASSICAL CLASSICS
    This impressionist composer changed modern music with works like "La Mer" & "Claire de Lune"
    Claude Debussy

    10. RELIGION
    You'll find this Iranian religion named for its founder in the last few pages of your dictionary
    Zoroastrian

    11. WORD UP
    Appropriately, this word comes from Greek words meaning "sharp" & "dull"
    Oxymoron

    12. CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY
    Regina is the capital of this province
    Sasketchewan

    13. MUSICIANS' NICKNAMES
    Better known nickname of jazz bandleader Ferdinand Joseph Morton
    Jelly Roll

    14. MODERN NOVELISTS
    He's the creator of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
    Alexander McCall Smith

    15. BRITISH ROYALTY
    Born in Hanover, the first king of this name was also the first king from the House of Hanover
    George

    16. THE NOBEL PRIZES
    It's the newest of the 6 Nobel Prize categories, having been first awarded in 1969
    Economics

    17. SAINTS
    First & last name of the philosopher who wrote "Summa Theologica"--it helps if you know he was born near Aquino
    Thomas Aquinas

    18. POLITICS
    On Jan. 5, 2011 Nancy Pelosi relinquished this symbolic object to John Boehner
    Gavel

    19. BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS
    In other words, "a deluge of tabbies & borzois"
    Raining cats and dogs

    20. LITERARY TERMS
    It's the term for a stanza or poem containing 4 lines
    Quatrain

    21. CONQUERORS
    This Mongol conqueror born in 1162 was said to be descended from a gray wolf
    Genghis Khan

    22. FOREIGN FOOD TERMS
    If you're being served pommes frites in Paris, you're about to enjoy this alliterative food
    French Fries

    23. TRAGEDIANS
    The big 3 founders of ancient Greek tragedy are Aeschylus, Euripides & him
    Sophocles

    24. COMPUTER TERMINOLOGY
    A D-O-S attack, short for denial of this, floods a network with requests, denying access to others
    Service

    25. THE BRITISH ISLES
    In the 11th c. Lady Godiva famously rode naked through this central English city
    Coventry

    26. SO VERY ANIMATED
    Nancy Cartwright is over 40 years older than this animated boy that she voices
    Bart Simpson

    27. POETS
    This author created the Ancient Mariner
    Coleridge

    28. THE FINAL FRONTIER
    This 12-ton object rode inside the space shuttle Discovery until released April 24, 1990
    Hubble telescope

    29. FAST FOOD
    The name of this restaurant means "crazy chicken" in Spanish
    El Pollo Loco

    30. ERAS
    The Luddites were fighting against this "Revolution" that began about 1760 in England
    Industrial

    31. THE NEW TESTAMENT
    In a parable, this son is the young man who wastes his fortune but comes home & repents
    Prodigal Son

    32. LEGENDARY RHYME TIME
    Bunyan's Southern accents
    Paul's drawls

    33. AMERICANA
    The Statue of Liberty contains a poem by this woman
    Emma Lazarus

    34. LORD OF THE DANCE
    He choreographed the films "Sweet Charity", "Cabaret" & of course "All That Jazz"
    Bob Fosse
    35. 20TH CENTURY NOVELS
    Stephen Dedalus & Leopold & Molly Bloom are the main characters of this James Joyce work
    Ulysses

    36. EYE ON ASIA
    This kingdom of Asia borders Laos, Burma & Cambodia
    Thailand

    37. THE OLYMPICS
    Before the first Winter Games in 1924, this sport was played in the Summer Games; Canada won gold in 1920
    Ice Hockey

    38. AWARDS
    The Order of Leopold is the oldest & highest honor given by this country
    Belgium

    39. IT'S AN ANIMAL, SUCKER
    Gastropods like snails, bivalves like clams & cephalopods like squid are all part of this phylum
    Mollusks/mollusca

    40. ANCIENT PLACES
    Kathleen Kenyon excavated this town, trying to find out when the Israelites destroyed its walls
    Jericho

    41. THAT'S SO CLICHE
    To depart in defeat is to leave "with your tail" here
    Between your legs

    42. U.S. LAKES & RIVERS
    The Willamette River of Oregon flows northward for about 190 miles before emptying into this river
    Columbia
    43. AD MEN
    Baltimore's Ray Lewis appears atop a giant raven in humorous ads for this cologne
    Old Spice

    44. U.S. HISTORY
    In the 1830s, the Creek, Chickasaw, Seminole, Choctaw & Cherokee Indians were forcibly moved to this future state
    Oklahoma

    45. ANIMALS IN LITERATURE
    Hazel & Fiver are 2 of the fluffy rabbits in this 1972 Richard Adams novel
    Watership Down

    46. ART ATTACK
    Created by Braque & Picasso, this influential art movement of the early 20th century had an Analytic & a Synthetic period
    Cubism

    47. CHEMISTRY
    For the effect it produces, nitrous oxide is also called this
    Laughing gas

    48. ACTRESSES
    She's the only Swedish-born actress to win 3 Oscars
    Ingmar Bergman

    49. FEMALE AUTHORS
    "A Room of One's Own" is a feminist classic from this Brit
    Virginia Woolf

    50. "M" WORDS
    Meaning to put someone into a trance, it comes from the name of an 18th century physician
    Mesmerize
     
  7. SpeedTchr

    SpeedTchr Well-Known Member

    Ben at the show taping:

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  8. statrat

    statrat Member

    Yup, I don't think I'll be getting a call back.
     
  9. Hank_Scorpio

    Hank_Scorpio Active Member

    And this was Ben's Final Jeopardy answer.


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  10. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    Cool...didn't know you were allowed to do this.
     
  11. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

    You can take any one of the scheduled tests, but you can only take it ONCE.
     
  12. lisa_simpson

    lisa_simpson Active Member

    38/50. Should have gotten Fosse and Bergman, couldn't pull out either in time. Some of my better gets include Zoroastrianism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sophocles, quatrain and Jelly Roll Morton.

    While the contestant coordinators have never officially confirmed it, conventional wisdom and voluminous anecdotal evidence suggests that the cutoff to go into the audition pool is 35. Doesn't guarantee you a spot, though. I picked Kansas City for my audition city.
     
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