October 3, 2017 College Online Test Discussion

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Answers:
1) Of Mice and Men
2) rich witch
3) fructose
4) Gutenberg
5) algebra
6) Fargo
7) Manatee
8) Spotify
9) Grendel
10) Chicago
11) Thirteen Reasons Why
12) Phoenicians
13) Dividend
14) The Fault in Our Stars
15) Atlas Mountains
16) Circadian Rhythm
17) Homer
18) Amelia Earhart
19) Beyonce Knowles
20) Beauty
21) Baltic
22) orchids
23) Othello
24) TOMS
25) Basques
26) meddle/medal
27) Sense and Sensibility
28) amphibians
29) dab
30) Dakar
31) La Boheme
32) Moonlight
33) parmesan
34) Battle of Antietam
35) The Prince
36) maple
37) John Oliver Twist
38) komodo dragon
39) fibula
40) The Good Samaritan
41) Bulldogs
42) Harlem Renaissance
43) polymer
44) Thailand
45) The Age of Innocence
46) Venezuela
47) particle accelerator
48) plagiarism
49) Ready Player One
50) Fiddler on the Roof

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOLT9TvpaNk

(Thanks to sherder for the video as always!)

[badgerfellow]

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1) Of Mice and Men
2) rich witch
3) fructose
4) Gutenberg
5) Logic
6) Fargo
7) Manatee
8) Spotify
9) Grendel
10) Chicago
11) Thirteen Reasons Why
12) Phoenicians
13) Dividend
14) The Fault in Our Stars
15) Atlas Mountains
16) Circadian Rhythm
17) Homer
18) Amelia Earhart
19) Beyonce Knowles
20) Beauty
21) Baltic
22) orchids
23) Othello
24) TOMS
25) Basques
26) meddle/medal
27) Sense and Sensibility
28) amphibians
29) dab
30) Dakar
31) La Boheme
32) Moonlight
33) parmesan
34) Battle of Antietam
35) The Prince
36) maple
37) John Oliver Twist
38) komodo dragon
39) fibula
40) The Good Samaritan
41) Bulldogs
42) Harlem Renaissance
43) polymer
44) Thailand
45) The Age of Innocence
46) Venezuela
47) particle accelerator
48) plagiarism
49) Ready Player One
50) Fiddler on the Roof

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Could #5 be algebra? Seems that and logic would be acceptable.

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1) Of Mice and Men
2) rich witch
3) fructose
4) Gutenberg
5) Logic
6) Fargo
7) Manatee
8) Spotify
9) Grendel
10) Chicago
11) Thirteen Reasons Why
12) Phoenicians
13) Dividend
14) The Fault in Our Stars
15) Atlas Mountains
16) Circadian Rhythm
17) Homer
18) Amelia Earhart
19) Beyonce Knowles
20) Beauty
21) Baltic
22) orchids
23) Othello
24) TOMS
25) Basques
26) meddle/medal
27) Sense and Sensibility
28) amphibians
29) dab
30) Dakar
31) La Boheme
32) Moonlight
33) parmesan
34) Battle of Antietam
35) The Prince
36) maple
37) John Oliver Twist
38) komodo dragon
39) fibula
40) The Good Samaritan
41) Bulldogs
42) Harlem Renaissance
43) polymer
44) Thailand
45) The Age of Innocence
46) Venezuela
47) particle accelerator
48) plagiarism
49) Ready Player One
50) Fiddler on the Roof

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Could #5 be algebra? Seems that and logic would be acceptable.

Fixed.

[AndyTheQuizzer]

25

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Basques or Catalonia? I'm not sure. The year matches Catalonia but the geography matches Basques.

[threearruda]

Much thanks for posting the answers.

Turned out I did much, much better than I thought. If 35 is the cut line I'm right on it, but regardless, definitely not pleased hahah. A lot of things I apparently need to review.

[MarkBarrett]

Thank you for the video and the answer set. No matter the test I enjoy taking all of them.

43/50 for me with three of my misses being right answers a question too late:

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Pandora for Spotify
Blank during time for The Fault in Our Stars then getting it during the next Q.
daisy for orchid and realized my error soon after
not a clue on TOMS shoes
way off with bivalve for amphibians
wrote Boyhood and realized it was La La Land, I mean Moonlight during the next question.
Brazil for Venezuela so not my day for world leaders

[hbomb1947]

43/50 for me. As usual, recent pop culture was one of the sources of my struggles.

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No idea on The Fault in Our Stars. I've heard of it, but never read the book or seen the movie (and how odd that this test had separate categories for "Novels," "British Novels," and "Bestsellers")

No idea on orchid.

NHO "dab" as a dance move.

No idea on Moonlight, which I haven't seen.

Femur for fibula.

Vietnam for Thailand.

Divergent for Ready Player One.

[Woof]

43/50 for me. As usual, recent pop culture was one of the sources of my struggles.

46 for me

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I missed Pandora for Spotify in #8
Blanked on amphibians in #28
NHO of dab for #29
No guess for Moonlight on #32

I was pleased to get The Fault in Our Stars, Beyonce and Ready Player One and get the 50/50/90 for Austen and Wharton

[sarisson]

39 from watching the official Jeopardy video and not pausing, which is even faster than the pace of the show. Try it! I felt really stupid for missing

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dab

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[cf1140]

I missed 23, 26, and 49.

Though I'm not sure I would have gotten 8, 28, & 32 in time.

23 was sorta pavlov so that's something I've jotted down as need-to-know from now on.

[nlw44]

Here is my transcript - later than usual because I completely forgot about the test, not that I would be taking this one for real anyway. It's spoilered just for space considerations. Open it if you want, but if you don't want, you don't have to scroll to far to move on.

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1 – AMERICAN LITERATURE
IN THIS STEINBECK TALE GEORGE & LENNIE HAVE DREAMS OF LIVING OFF THE FAT OF THE LAND

2 – RHYME TIME
A WEALTHY SORCERESS

3 – “F” IN SCIENCE
THIS SIMPLE SUGAR IS A SWEETENER IN HONEY

4 – HISTORIC NAMES
DURING THE 1400s THIS GERMAN INVENTOR PRINTED THE FIRST BIBLES USING MOVABLE TYPE

5 – MATH
AROUND 1850 GEORGE BOOLE DEVISED A NEW TAKE ON THIS BRANCH OF MATH

6 – U.S. CITIES
THIS IS NORTH DAKOTA’S LARGEST CITY

7 – AQUATIC MAMMALS
THIS RELATIVE OF THE DUGONG IS ALSO KNOW AS A SEA COW

8 – APPS
IN 2011 THIS MUSIC APP FROM SWEDEN HIT THE U.S. PROMISING “ALL THE MUSIC, ALL THE TIME”

9 – LITERARY BEASTS
IN ONE TRANSLATION OF “BEOWULF”, HE’S DESCRIBED AS “A FIEND OUT OF HELL” & A “GRIM DEMON”

10 – BIRTHPLACES
FIRST LADIES HILLARY CLINTON & MICHELLE OBAMA WERE BOTH BORN IN THIS CITY

11 – NUMERIC TV
THE TITLE OF THIS NETFLIX SERIES REFERS TO THE MOTIVES CAUSING HANNAH BAKER TO TAKE HER OWN LIFE

12 – ANCIENT TIMES
THESE ANCIENT SEAFARERS SPOKE A LANGUAGE CLOSELY RELATED TO HEBREW

13 – STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME LETTER
MONEY PAID TO SHAREHOLDERS OUT OF EARNINGS

14 – NAME THE NOVEL
HAZEL GRACE LANCASTER & AUGUSTUS WATERS

15 – MOUNTAINS
THIS MOUNTAIN RANGE RUNS FROM MOROCCO TO TUNIS

16 – SCIENTIFIC CYCLES
OCCURRING EVERY 24 HOURS, YOUR DAILY BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS ARE NAMED THIS, FROM LATIN FOR “ABOUT DAILY”

17 – FAMOUS PAINTINGS
IN A REMBRANDT PAINTING, ARISTOTLE IS SEEN CONTEMPLATING A BUST OF THIS POET

18 – WOMEN’S FIRSTS
AMONG HER MANY FIRSTS WAS THE FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL NONSTOP AIRPLANE FLIGHT BY A WOMAN

19 – SINGERS
HER YOUNGER SISTER SOLANGE IS A SINGER TOO

20 – POETRY
JOHN KEATS WROTE, “A THING OF” THIS “IS A JOY FOREVER”

21 – WORLD GEOGRAPHY
POLAND & LITHUANIA ARE AMONG THE COUNTRIES THAT BORDER THIS SEA

22 – FLOWER POWER
TYPES OF THIS FLOWER INCLUDE CYMBIDIUM & CATTLEYA

23 – SHAKESPEARE
A MISPLACED HANDKERCHIEF LEADS TO MURDUROUS SUSPICION IN THIS PLAY

24 – SHOE BRANDS
BLAKE MYCOSKIE IS THE FOUNDER & CHIEF SHOE GIVER OF THIS BRAND THAT GIVES A PAIR OF SHOES FOR EVERY ONE BOUGHT

25 – THE 20TH CENTURY
IN 1979 THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT GRANTED LIMITED SELF-RULE TO THIS ETHNIC GROUP FROM THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTRY

26 – HOMOPHONES
TO INTERFERE IN SOMEONE’S BUSINESS, OR AN AWARD FOR WINNING A CHAMPIONSHIP

27 – BRITISH NOVELS
JANE AUSTEN INITIALLY TITLED THIS NOVEL “ELINOR AND MARIANNE”

28 – BIOLOGY
THE NAME OF THIS CLASS OF VERTEBRATES IS DERIVED FROM A GREEK WORD MEANING “LIVING A DOUBLE LIFE”

29 – DANCE MOVES
IT INVOLVES COVERING THE EYES WITH THE INSIDE OF THE ELBOW

30 – CAPITAL CITIES
THIS 5-LETTER CAPITAL CITY OF SENEGAL IS THE WESTERNMOST CAPITAL ON THE AFRICAN MAINLAND

31 – OPERA
PUCCINI’S OPERA ABOUT MIMI AND RODOLFO, STARVING FOR THE SAKE OF ART IN PARIS

32 – MOVIES
3 ACTORS PLAYED CHIRON AS HE GROWS UP IN FLORIDA IN THIS 2016 FILM

33 – COOKING
NAMED FOR A CITY OF NORTHERN ITALY, THIS GRATED CHEESE IS THE TRADITIONAL TOPPING FOR CAESAR SALAD

34 – THE CIVIL WAR
THE UNION WAS VICTORIOUS IN THE SEPTEMBER 17, 1862 MARYLAND BATTLE

35 – WORLD LIT
MACHIAVELLI DEALT WITH BORGIAS & SFORZAS IN THIS, HIS MOST FAMOUS WORK

36 – COINS
THESE TREES ARE ON THE REVERSE OF VERMONT’S STATE QUARTER

37 – BEFORE & AFTER
“LAST WEEK TONIGHT” HOST WHO’S AN ORPHAN IN A DICKENS NOVEL

38 – REPTILES
THE WORLD’S LARGEST LIZARD, IT HAS A VENOMOUS BITE

39 – ANATOMY
IT’S THE BONE THAT RUNS PARALLEL & LATERAL TO THE TIBIA

40 – THE BIBLE
IN A PARABLE IN LUKE’S GOSPEL, THIS PERSON HELPS A MAN WOUNDED BY THIEVES

41 – SPORTS TEAM NAMES
THE SPORTS TEAMS OF FRESNO STATE UNIVERSITY & THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA ARE BOTH CALLED THIS

42 – AFRICAN-AMERICANA
THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN RHODES SCHOLAR, ALAIN LOCKE WAS AKA “THE FATHER OF” THIS NYC CREATIVE MOVEMENT

43 – CHEMISTRY
PLASTICS ARE THIS TYPE OF CHEMICAL COMPOUND, COMPOSED OF LARGE MOLECULES FORMED FROM SMALLER ONES

44 – THE MAP OF ASIA
THIS NATION IS SURROUNDED BY MYANMAR ON THE WEST & LAOS ON THE NORTH & EAST

45 – WOMEN AUTHORS
EDITH WHARTON LOOKED BACK TO 1870s NEW YORK SOCIETY IN THIS NOVEL ABOUT NEWLAND ARCHER & ELLEN OLENSKA

46 – WORLD LEADERS
NICOLAS MADURO IS THE EMBATTLED PRESIDENT OF THIS SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY

47 – NUCLEAR PHYSICS
THESE DEVICES FOR UPPING THE SPEEDS OF PARTICLES MAY BE LINEAR OR CYCLIC

48 – 10-LETTER WORDS
THIS ACADEMIC NO-NO COMES FROM A LATIN WORD MEANING “KIDNAPPING”

49 – BESTSELLERS
TEEN WADE WATTS SPENDS HIS TIME PLUGGED INTO A VIRTUAL UTOPIA TO ESCAPE THE REALITY OF 2044 IN THIS SCI-FI NOVEL

50 – MUSICAL THEATRE
“TO LIFE, TO LIFE, L’CHAIM!” WITH THIS MUSICAL REVIVED ON BROADWAY IN 2015