Jeopardy! Online Quiz

They'd never take me if I hit 47 of 'em . . . I'm too old for 'em . . . but always try to do this, when it's available. It's too much fun.

 

I'm not faulting you there. I'm just going to look for a shooting star tonight. I've got my "Please drop Micah Owings to Triple-A" wish all ready to go.

 

I wouldn't be counting on any favors from God, Mr. Lapsed Catholic.

However, it's clearly evident that God hates Mikey.

Hmmm ... interesting ...

 

It'll definitely be an interesting battle.

 

"And the 2-2 pitch is a hanging splitter hit DEEP to left field, WAAAAAY back. It's gone! Another home run for buckweaver! Here comes Willie Randolph and that's going to do it for mike 311gd.

"He doesn't get ANYONE out, allowing one hit and it was a grand slam homer. I tell ya, the kid should go back to little league. He might have more luck there."

 

That was excellent. And I was damn good in Little League, too. But I played first base and center field, not pitcher.

 

James Buchanan. The rumors persist to this day that he batted from the other side of the plate, not that there's anything wrong with that. But there was in the 1840s-50s

TR was married twice. His first wife died young.

Once again, do not jack with me on presidential trivia.

I would've missed the Austen question. But what else was on there, guys?

 

After my success (and some fail) of The Wheel Experience, I'm taking this test tonight. Of course, I can't appear on Jeopardy! until next year, but that's OK. I already know where the studioes are, so I'm covered there.

I would doubt the questions will be recycled from last night, so I'll try to post some of the new ones tonight.

 

Some bunnies:

Asterisked ball in Hall of Fame.

Fidelio was whose lone opera?

Author of "Innocents Abroad"

Former minister playing guitar on night talk show in 2008

First book of the New Testament

Silas Marner author's pen name

Capitol of ND named for what historical figure

Four-letter name for horsey reddish-gray color

Food of the Gods . . . beginning with "A"

First African-American actress to win Best Actress

Author of Iliad and Odyssey

Fair to middlin:

Painter of Nude Descending A Staircase

Only Shakesperian play with an opening scene at sea

Lincoln's Secretary of State

Show Christine Ebersole won a Tony for, based on a documentary

Henry VIII's third wife

Baby swans are called?

Former slave (born in 1800) a key figure in abolitionist movement

Green is the dominant color of the flag of what Muslim country?

Heidi Klum series on Bravo

Teddy Roosevelt was first U. S. prez to make state visit abroad -- to what country?


Police Brutality:

The Jane Austin novel which begins: "The family of Dashwood had long settled in Sussex."

French Riviera city which was burial site for Henri Matisse.


That should do, for openers.

 

Missed this thread yesterday, so taking the test tonight. Looking forward to it.

 

Godspeed.

 

Time to start logging in for the test tonight, ladies and gentlemen