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This quiz came up in my Facebook feed today: Are you smarter than a Jeopardy! contestant?. It's 24 multiple choice questions provided by jeopardy.com. It's fun, but not nearly as tough as the online test (which they freely acknowledge). Giving the wording of the question, I wonder what those of you who've been on the show would learn about yourselves taking this
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Missed a perfect score on a 50-50 tossup.Woof wrote:This quiz came up in my Facebook feed today: Are you smarter than a Jeopardy! contestant?.
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Waffled between baby bump and fist bump. Chose the wrong one.
It's odd that the quiz asks you whether a certain event in Exodus happened at Mount Sinai or Mount Horeb. Do they really expect us to know that it's Exodus that refers to Sinai while Deuteronomy refers to Horeb when talking about the same events on, presumably, the same mountain? Of course not. They just didn't have enough Biblical literacy to write the clue properly. In that respect, I'd say the quiz writers gave us the genuine Jeopardy! experience.
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Sameopusthepenguin wrote:Missed a perfect score on a 50-50 tossup.Spoiler
Waffled between baby bump and fist bump. Chose the wrong one.
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Yup, same for me, tooecongator wrote:Sameopusthepenguin wrote:Missed a perfect score on a 50-50 tossup.Spoiler
Waffled between baby bump and fist bump. Chose the wrong one.
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What was the question? That page loads entirely too slow on my computer to click through 24 questions.Woof wrote:Yup, same for me, tooecongator wrote:Sameopusthepenguin wrote:Missed a perfect score on a 50-50 tossup.Spoiler
Waffled between baby bump and fist bump. Chose the wrong one.
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Basically it was "Which of these expressions came about in 2008:jeff6286 wrote:What was the question? That page loads entirely too slow on my computer to click through 24 questions.
fist bump, speed bump, baby bump and some other bump
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I think it was referring to a magazine cover (I don't remember which). The act of fist bumping is way older than that. I just flipped a coin and hoped there weren't any newsworthy pregnancies at the time.econgator wrote:Basically it was "Which of these expressions came about in 2008:jeff6286 wrote:What was the question? That page loads entirely too slow on my computer to click through 24 questions.
fist bump, speed bump, baby bump and some other bump
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What tripped me up on the fist/baby bump question was that the blog "Separated By a Common Language" has a yearly post that lists the top word of the year that originated in the UK and was generally adopted by the US and vice-versa. Baby Bump was a US->UK winner not too long ago.
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THIS "BUMP" MADE TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP 10 BUZZWORDS OF 2008
What is a baby bump?
What are goosebumps?
What is a fist bump?
What is a speed bump?
Obvious to me, but...
What is a baby bump?
What are goosebumps?
What is a fist bump?
What is a speed bump?
Obvious to me, but...
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apparently everyone else forgot the 'Terrorist Fist Jab'
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Not certain I've ever heard of it to allow me to forget it.Volante wrote:THIS "BUMP" MADE TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP 10 BUZZWORDS OF 2008
What is a baby bump?
What are goosebumps?
What is a fist bump?
What is a speed bump?
Obvious to me, but...Spoiler
apparently everyone else forgot the 'Terrorist Fist Jab'
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Watching the Euro 16 games live leads to punishment by the repetition of that Bon Jovi ad.
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Today's Poorly Drawn Lines comic mentions a thing.
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They shouldn't talk about Alex Trebek like that!dinghammer wrote:Today's Poorly Drawn Lines comic mentions a thing.
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I wonder if Culver City has changed for the better in the last 30 years. In 1986 it was ugly (though not hideous), squat, and functional. I couldn't imagine anyone calling it a "sweet little city."
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So you'd turn down an invitation to visit there?opusthepenguin wrote:I wonder if Culver City has changed for the better in the last 30 years. In 1986 it was ugly (though not hideous), squat, and functional. I couldn't imagine anyone calling it a "sweet little city."
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I can't speak for Culver City at large, but it does have a "sweet little" downtown area.opusthepenguin wrote:I wonder if Culver City has changed for the better in the last 30 years. In 1986 it was ugly (though not hideous), squat, and functional. I couldn't imagine anyone calling it a "sweet little city."
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How dare I had to find this thread on page 2.
The 7/15 NYT crossword puzzle had:
14D: Nine-time presidential contender of the 1940s-'90s [7 letters]
After filling in the name I was curious about hits he had in the Archive: http://www.j-archive.com/search.php?sea ... mit=Search
I guess he's due this year?
The 7/15 NYT crossword puzzle had:
14D: Nine-time presidential contender of the 1940s-'90s [7 letters]
After filling in the name I was curious about hits he had in the Archive: http://www.j-archive.com/search.php?sea ... mit=Search
I guess he's due this year?
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Had I only part of the name filled I might have guessedMarkBarrett wrote:How dare I had to find this thread on page 2.
The 7/15 NYT crossword puzzle had:
14D: Nine-time presidential contender of the 1940s-'90s [7 letters]
After filling in the name I was curious about hits he had in the Archive: http://www.j-archive.com/search.php?sea ... mit=Search
I guess he's due this year?
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Pat Paulsen ("ran" six times, but not beginning until 1968)