Jeopardy Online Test

[bydesign77]

Got in the neighborhood of 31. I'm mad about missing a few of the ones I did.

As it was last year, I got about half right. When I have time to really thing about the answers, of course, I get more of the questions right, but you don't have that kind of time on the show.

Movies get me a lot. I've seen them, but don't remember them. And then common stuff stumps me from time to time. And I really thought it was baby bump.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Well, I wasn't expecting this score: "You may be a redneck."

 

[bydesign77]

So I have a question: Those "answers" are they right, or is that what that guy answered? Because there's no way Merrill Lynch is the right answer.

Isn't their logo a bull? That would make sense.

 

[Steak Snabler]

you don't have that kind of time on the show.

That's true, but you're hearing it rather than reading it, and the countdown clock doesn't start until you ring in on the TV version...

 

[Diabeetus]

So I have a question: Those "answers" are they right, or is that what that guy answered? Because there's no way Merrill Lynch is the right answer.

I'm pretty sure that one was Bear Sterns. But the rest seem to check out OK.

 

[imjustagirl]

So I have a question: Those "answers" are they right, or is that what that guy answered? Because there's no way Merrill Lynch is the right answer.

Isn't their logo a bull? That would make sense.

appropriately non-bullish word in its name.

Which would make it Bear Stearns. The word "bear" isn't in the name of Merrill Lynch.


EDIT: Thanks, 'beetus.

 

[bydesign77]

you don't have that kind of time on the show.

That's true, but you're hearing it rather than reading it, and the countdown clock doesn't start until you ring in ...

I think you get five seconds from the time Alex reads the clue to ring in, maybe five to answer.

Auditory plus visual clues are easier for sure. And of course you deal with just 13 categories, not 50.

 

[Walter_Sobchak]

Assuming those answers are correct (I don't see any reason to doubt them), I got 31.

I cannot believe the basalt question... I didn't read the category for "B In Geology" so I wrote magma.
Had Victoria as the answer to #3, and changed it at the last second. And I was 100% sure that magna cum laude was the highest you could get. Guess not.

 

[Diabeetus]

Also wrong on the answer key as it's posted now: It's summa cum laude, not magna cum laude.

 

[Steak Snabler]

The one I'm pissed about missing is Shell Oil. Typed in Exxon, then erased it and typed in Standard Oil.

"Conch" was a dead giveway. D'oh!

 

[albert77]

I guessed on a few, like the illustrater-author who wrote "The Tyger." I said Suess, but I don't believe that's right. And can anybody tell me the name of the British band that released, "In the Rainbow?" I threw Oasis out there, but that was an absolute blind stab in the dark.

Still, I'll be surprised if I didn't get between 35-40 right. I thought most of the questions were fairly easy, easier than the one two years ago, and I got called to a live audition after that one. So...

 

[bydesign77]

I would have never thought of Bear Stearns. Which makes the clue even that more cute. Dammit.

 

[Steak Snabler]

I guessed on a few, like the illustrater-author who wrote "The Tyger." I said Suess, but I don't believe that's right.

And can anybody tell me the name of the British band that released, "In the Rainbow?" I threw Oasis out there, but that was an absolute blind stab in the dark.

1. William Blake (which I got right)

2. Radiohead (which I didn't)

 

[Diabeetus]

I guessed on a few, like the illustrater-author who wrote "The Tyger." I said Suess, but I don't believe that's right. And can anybody tell me the name of the British band that released, "In the Rainbow?" I threw Oasis out there, but that was an absolute blind stab in the dark.

Still, I'll be surprised if I didn't get between 35-40 right. I thought most of the questions were fairly easy, easier than the one two years ago, and I got called to a live audition after that one. So...

Blake for the first, Radiohead for the Brit band.

Edit: Steak beat me.

 

[imjustagirl]

I guessed on a few, like the illustrater-author who wrote "The Tyger." I said Suess, but I don't believe that's right. And can anybody tell me the name of the British band that released, "In the Rainbow?" I threw Oasis out there, but that was an absolute blind stab in the dark.

Still, I'll be surprised if I didn't get between 35-40 right. I thought most of the questions were fairly easy, easier than the one two years ago, and I got called to a live audition after that one. So...

The answers are linked higher up on this page. You can figure out a little closer on where you finished.

 

[imjustagirl]

Oh, and after reading the questions and the answers, I'm debating simply not taking the test tomorrow.

 

[albert77]

I guessed on a few, like the illustrater-author who wrote "The Tyger." I said Suess, but I don't believe that's right. And can anybody tell me the name of the British band that released, "In the Rainbow?" I threw Oasis out there, but that was an absolute blind stab in the dark.

Still, I'll be surprised if I didn't get between 35-40 right. I thought most of the questions were fairly easy, easier than the one two years ago, and I got called to a live audition after that one. So...

The answers are linked higher up on this page. You can figure out a little closer on where you finished.

Thanks, I went back and figured it up. Got 40. Two of my stone-cold guesses panned out. I got the van Gogh and the Joyce Kilmer questions right and I really didn't know either of those answers. Kind of faded toward the end; missed five of the last 6. Oh, and I'm assuming that cobras works as an acceptable answer for the question on "Rikki-Tiki-Tavi?"

 

[Diabeetus]

Nice work, Albert! I'd imagine cobras work, since you were more specific (and right )

 

[Walter_Sobchak]

Oh, and that MF'n Rikki Tikki Tavi question screwed me as well. Again, didn't read it fully and wrote mongoose.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Oh, and that MF'n Rikki Tikki Tavi question screwed me as well. Again, didn't read it fully and wrote mongoose.

Yeah, I put "Spanish" instead of "Spain" on the Civil War question. I'm thinking they won't count that one ...