42-45 (I'll say 44) right. The questionable ones are Spoiler
Ulysses Grant: The mention of Hamilton threw me so bad I couldn't make heads or tails of the clue. I said the correct answer just before time ran out, but wouldn't have had time to even type "Grant" in the box.
Chrissy Teigen: I spelled it Teigan.
Instagram: I had it, and switched to Snapchat. By this point I'd taken to typing the answer in Notepad and I'd hit Enter, so I might have locked in Instagram and saved myself from myself.
I'm counting Teigan, and for Grant/Instagram, I figure one that I got that I would have missed on the test and one that I missed that I probably would have gotten on the test is a wash and I can count one of the two.
Then I just missed Spoiler
Israel (Jordan)
Mojave (Sonora, only happy with it because I came up with something) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Our Town, which is Wilder, genius)
bitcoin (no response)
"Shake It Off" ("Mean")
Oh, what has science wrought? I sought only to turn a man into a metal-encased juggernaut of destruction powered by the unknown properties of a mysterious living crystal. How could this have all gone wrong?
DysonSphere wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2019 7:03 am
45/50, which would be my all-time high score if I had taken it for real. Seemed like a relatively easy test to me.
I agree it seemed easy, and my 44 seems to back that up. I can only hope I can pull that off when I take it for real. I tend towards the mid to high 30's, maybe hitting 40 once.
Well, this is what I get for being away from JBoard for a bit... I really wish I'd known about last night's test! The April dates are -- just like last year -- during tech week for a show I'm playing, whereas last night I was at home doing nothing. Oh well, it was good to practice, and I did way better than any of the 3 from last year. I had a 41, including two 'educated guesses' (such as can be done in 10 seconds). Would've been 42 had I not drawn a total blank on the one Taylor Swift song whose name I actually know.
I'm officially confused. Where did this test even come from? I see that the "official" online quizzes are still a week (plus) away. Was there a special event just for S. Fla?
Anyway, playing from the board I got my usual 41 right. Won't be taking a test for real this year as I am still in the pool from last year's online quiz. (although my audition was in late June, so my 18 months in the pool are now officially half over)
Good luck to all who took this, assuming it was a for-real test.
41/50, total brain freeze on one that should've got me 42.
this is a better score than usual for me, as I'm usually in the 35-37 range; but I have had a big improvement in ability in the past year, so this might be my new normal instead of the test being easier than normal.
Golf wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2019 8:09 am
Interesting that so many boardies missed Spoiler
"Shake it Off"
after Arthur Chu's video was posted here. That's pretty much the only way I was able to pull it without getting it mixed up with all her other songs.
Seeing song lyrics in text without any music is always going to stymie a lot of people. Even for songs I know well I often can't immediately put the words in proper context, whether it's in 5 seconds for a Jeopardy! clue or in 15 seconds here.
John Boy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2019 11:56 am
I'm officially confused. Where did this test even come from? I see that the "official" online quizzes are still a week (plus) away. Was there a special event just for S. Fla?
Anyway, playing from the board I got my usual 41 right. Won't be taking a test for real this year as I am still in the pool from last year's online quiz. (although my audition was in late June, so my 18 months in the pool are now officially half over)
Good luck to all who took this, assuming it was a for-real test.
It was announced for the West Palm Beach area but anyone was allowed to register and take it, assuming you were willing to go to an audition in South Florida rather than pick from the dozen or so cities listed for the other batch of tests. It was not explicitly stated but official word spread around that if you took this one, you were not to take any of the 3 April tests so I think most here are playing from the Youtube video.
LucarioSnooperVixey wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2019 10:40 pm
49/50. My only miss being Mansplaining. (Unsurprisingly.)
My bad, 48/50. Also missed the Donald Glover series.
Atlanta is an unusual series with such a mixed bag of episodes all over the place. "Barbershop" from S2 is hilarious. Do not make "Teddy Perkins" the first episode as your introduction to the series.
Golf wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2019 8:09 am
Interesting that so many boardies missed Spoiler
"Shake it Off"
after Arthur Chu's video was posted here. That's pretty much the only way I was able to pull it without getting it mixed up with all her other songs.
i don't know much about contemporary pop music, but i got that one right because the song was ingrained into my mind after having to suffer through that song countless times while watching a poker streamer on twitch by the name of nanonoko...dude had that lame song set as his sub/follower music
1. Grant (Burr... and I know he wasn't a general)
11. Viola Davis (blank)
30. Alps (Apennines)
41. Wonder Woman (Sparta--yes, I'm embarrassed)
44. HRC (Conway--see above)
50. "Shake It Off" (made up a song called "Blonde")
The thing women don't understand about mansplaining is...
39, playing from the video. It would have been 40 except I was too slow on #48.
That's about average, maybe a little above for me. But reading the clues took slightly longer than usual -- I've had cataract surgery in one eye, so now I need readers, but my eyes are unbalanced. I'm getting the other eye fixed next week. I hope things will be little more normal when I take the test for real.
Golf wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2019 8:09 am
Interesting that so many boardies missed Spoiler
"Shake it Off"
after Arthur Chu's video was posted here. That's pretty much the only way I was able to pull it without getting it mixed up with all her other songs.
i don't know much about contemporary pop music, but i got that one right because the song was ingrained into my mind after having to suffer through that song countless times while watching a poker streamer on twitch by the name of nanonoko...dude had that lame song set as his sub/follower music
Ah yes, the Pokerstars 6-max NL multi-table specialist. His graphs for a few years were mind blowing.