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Online Test Recap & Discussion (West Palm Beach), March 27, 2019

Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 6:53 pm
by Archivists
Video:



As always, thank you so much to sherder for the video!

Re: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 West Palm Beach Online Test (SPOILERS)

Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 6:53 pm
by Archivists
Answers, spoilerized:
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1 Ulysses Grant
2 rave
3 Watson
4 inflation
5 margherita
6 Israel
7 Druids
8 slander
9 Hercule Poirot
10 20
11 Viola Davis
12 McCarthy
13 mansplaining
14 Hiawatha
15 Bucharest
16 protons
17 Beethoven
18 Boston Marathon
19 Atlanta
20 Joseph Heller
21 Mojave
22 Whips
23 Macbeth
24 gluten
25 Stonehenge
26 EGOT
27 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
28 Marconi
29 Heraldry
30 Alps
31 Rene Descartes
32 Frozen
33 NAACP
34 Valley Forge
35 Doyle
36 Bitcoin
37 Liliputian
38 Chrissy Teigen
39 Lucy
40 Banksy
41 Wonder Woman
42 Holy Roman Empire
43 Instagram
44 North Carolina
45 Hillary Clinton
46 23
47 humidity
48 Jurassic Park Place
49 Nabokov
50 Shake It Off

Re: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 West Palm Beach Online Test (SPOILERS)

Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 6:53 pm
by Archivists
According to the show:
You may take either the West Palm Beach test on March 27, or any one of the three adult tests in April, but you may only take one. You should base your selection on convenience of audition city and available test date. Multiple entries may result in disqualification.

Re: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 West Palm Beach Online Test (SPOILERS)

Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 7:23 pm
by jeff6286
I wonder if the format of the thread title could be tweaked so it doesn't look so much like the daily game threads. The format used last year was:
Online Test Recap & Discussion (Eastern), March 6, 2018
With 3 more of these coming next week I can see a lot of people accidentally clicking the wrong threads (in either direction) and seeing things they didn't intend to see. Just a thought!

Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (West Palm Beach), March 27, 2019

Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 7:53 pm
by Archivists
jeff6286 wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2019 7:23 pm I wonder if the format of the thread title could be tweaked so it doesn't look so much like the daily game threads. The format used last year was:
Online Test Recap & Discussion (Eastern), March 6, 2018
With 3 more of these coming next week I can see a lot of people accidentally clicking the wrong threads (in either direction) and seeing things they didn't intend to see. Just a thought!
Done. Thank you!

Re: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 West Palm Beach Online Test (SPOILERS)

Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 9:11 pm
by hbomb1947
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Query whether cryptocurrency is an acceptable alternate answer for no. 36 (bitcoin). According to wikipedia, bitcoin " is generally considered the first decentralized cryptocurrency." The word "mysterious" in describing the inventor in the clue seemed to be a TOM pointing me to the "crypto" in cryptocurrency. (My written response on my answer sheet was actually bitcoin, but after time ran out I did wonder about cryptocurrency being possibly correct -- although I now know that bitcoin was definitely right.)
Anyway, 45/50 playing off the video (missing
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20 ounces, Viola Davis, Atlanta, Teigen, and "Shake it Off"
).

Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (West Palm Beach), March 27, 2019

Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 9:19 pm
by MarkBarrett
Pretty normal range for me with 44/50. Misses:
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!. Classic RTFClue as I saw Chernow and wrote Hamilton without bothering to look at it again
5. I've barely heard of the correct pizza name - wrote Victoria
11. A terrible momentary blank in taking the test relaxed - Did get Davis before the next clue appeared
36. Wrote Nissei to have something - bitcoin or cryptocurrency was not going to happen
43. My coin toss went the wrong way with Snapchat
50. Doubly wrong as I had Blank Spaces and her song is Blank Space
As is the current norm there were a couple of gift points for having watched the games from this week.

The 44 I had right were mostly instants although I had to make sure I did the right Shakespeare play and needed a moment's pause to get the family crest thing.

Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (West Palm Beach), March 27, 2019

Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 9:37 pm
by Rackme32
I got a whopping 29 playing off the above video...

Lots of times when I'm playing and doing quite well at casual trivia games such as NTN/Buzztime or live-hosted bar trivia, I get asked, "How come you haven't been on Jeopardy?"

I always say that I have hung with real Jeopardy players and that I am NOT in their league... My above score proves it. :roll: :roll: :roll:

Hats off to anyone that can qualify!

Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (West Palm Beach), March 27, 2019

Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 9:47 pm
by sarisson
47/50 (not 48 upon further review). Missed #1 and #19 (no clue on either), and #30
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said "Apennines"
I wonder if
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hyperinflation would be accepted for #4? I thought of "inflation" just to be safe.

Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (West Palm Beach), March 27, 2019

Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 10:10 pm
by boson
43...
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Missed:
venti (missed the word origin clue of "twenty in italian" even though they don't use ounces...)
Viola Davis
typed cat on a hot tin roof and deleted it to write streetcar named desire (only to run out of time)
dolomites instead of alps
Teigen
Wonder Woman
ran out of time on Jurassic Park Place - they might have given it to me on a real test cause I was close

Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (West Palm Beach), March 27, 2019

Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 10:40 pm
by LucarioSnooperVixey
49/50. My only miss being Mansplaining. (Unsurprisingly.)

Re: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 West Palm Beach Online Test (SPOILERS)

Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 10:40 pm
by econgator
hbomb1947 wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2019 9:11 pm
Anyway, 45/50 playing off the video (missing
Spoiler
20 ounces, Viola Davis, Atlanta, Teigen, and "Shake it Off"
).
Same score and almost same misses
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(I missed Beethoven instead of 20 ounces)
.

Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (West Palm Beach), March 27, 2019

Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 11:09 pm
by tddeveryday
Rackme32 wrote: Wed Mar 27, 2019 9:37 pm I got a whopping 29 playing off the above video...
You're not alone, Rackme. I also got the exact same score, 29. I wonder how similar our misses were.

I've been hooked on this show for only about seven months. I know my weaknesses and what I need to study. I'm definitely not ready for Jeopardy right now, but I'm hoping I will be someday.

Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (West Palm Beach), March 27, 2019

Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 11:42 pm
by twelvefootboy
41 Right, a couple of close rulings.
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Pretty sure Margaret and Roman Empire would not pass. If BMS'd on the show, I'd still flop. I think the HRE is something different
Much better than the mid 30's last year. I think it was easier.
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CORRECT / stupid
1) X GRANT /Arnold
5) X? MARGHERITA / Margaret -
11) X VIOLA DAVIS / Streep (stock answer for hollywood)
14) X HIAWATHA / Leatherstocking
15) X BUCHAREST Kirsk (don't be asking me capitals!)
19) X ATLANTAXX
Nice Run of 18 right!
38) X CHRISSIE TEIGEN Brittany
42) X? HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE Roman
49) X NOBOKOV Pervy pervface
50) X SHAKE IT OFF F** taylor swift

Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (West Palm Beach), March 27, 2019

Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 12:08 am
by Woof
46/50 here.

My misses:
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Grant
20
Tiegen
Shake It Off
Was anyone else struck by the jack of current events in this set of questions?

Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (West Palm Beach), March 27, 2019

Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 12:23 am
by goongas
I got 40 playing off of video,
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41 if Margarette would be acceptable for pizza, normally I get like 37.

Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (West Palm Beach), March 27, 2019

Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 12:45 am
by RJRouge
45/50. Missed...
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the seemingly common misses of Viola Davis, Atlanta, and Chrissy Teigen... then embarrassingly protons (with an answer of electrons, and I still say that, since the clue did not specify the nucleus and ions weren't mentioned one way or the other, my answer would be correct. Depends on how strictly they would enforce "always.") and humidity. Just could not pull that word up in the 15 seconds given this time around.

Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (West Palm Beach), March 27, 2019

Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 2:44 am
by BRD-98
46/50.

Missed:
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Bitcoin -- put "stock ticker," ugh
Lilliputian -- thought of it, but reconsidered and put "little"
Chrissy Teigen -- no clue
23 -- again, no clue

Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (West Palm Beach), March 27, 2019

Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 2:59 am
by Lefty
I'm not quite clear on whether I could have taken this test officially, or if yes am I then only eligible to audition in West Palm Beach? Strictly academic since registration as usual was too complicated for me to knock out on short notice. I have a question about the process which I'll try to post in a relevant thread.

Anyway as for this, from the video but using pen and paper I scored 46*, missing
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Grant (Napoleon), Atlanta (no guess), Mojave (that's the one I wanted but it wouldn't come), Shake It Off (Reputation has been my go-to Taylor Swift answer lately).

*At best. Heraldry and Teigen were furious last-seconds scribbles; who knows how they'd have played out for real on a keyboard.
Edit--Having just opened the above referenced relevant thread, the question I asked in the first sentence of this post has been answered.

Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (West Palm Beach), March 27, 2019

Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 3:22 am
by seaborgium
48, which I believe is a tie for my best. I missed the Revolutionary War winter camp and the Taylor Swift song.