The Jeopardy contestant search exam

[Mudcat]

FWIW here is the full test with answers which someone transcribed. I got 42.







Category: Novel Heroines
1. This 1847 Charlotte Bronte title character gets a job as a governess.
Correct answer: Jane Eyre

Category: Reality TV
2. This supermodel has hosted Project Runway since 2004.
Correct answer: Heidi Klum

Category: Scientists
3. In 1955 his polio vaccine was pronounced safe & effective.
Correct answer: Jonas Salk

Category: African Geography
4. This country is bordered by Sudan to the south & Libya to the west
Correct answer: Egypt

Category: Ivy League Schools
5. Ithaca, New York is home to this university
Correct answer: Cornell

Category: British History
6. In 1838 she began her decades-long reign as queen.
Correct answer: Victoria

Category: Shakespearean Characters
7. This king of the fairies likes to play with a puck.
Correct answer: Oberon

Category: Thats My Business
8. Steve Ballmer is CEO of this tech company
Correct answer: Microsoft

Category: In His Book of the Bible
9. Boils sent by Satan are among the many tribulations of this man
Correct answer: Job

Category: Get Your Drink On
10. Its the main alcoholic ingredient of a cuba libre
Correct answer: rum (Wikipedia says white rum)

Category: 6-letter words
11. A counting device using a frame set with rods & moving balls
Correct answer: abacus

Category: World Capitals
12. Its the capital of Ukraine
Correct answer: Kiev

Category: Name That Movie
13. Panem is the setting of this post-apocalyptic 2012 film.
Correct answer: The Hunger Games

Category: Author! Author!
14. He spent most of his 1985-97 jail sentence in Reading Gaol.
Correct answer: Oscar Wilde

Category: Ancient Rome
15. The first of these 3 wars between Rome & Carthage began in 264. B.C.
Correct answer: Punic Wars

Category: Space Exploration
16. On Aug. 6, 2012 this appropriately named robotic vehicle landed on Mars.
Correct answer: Curiosity

Category: Art & Artists
17. This American gave use the drip painting Number Ten, 1949.
Correct answer: Jackson Pollock

Category: Newspapers
18. The teamof Woodward & Bernstein came to fame working for this newspaper.
Correct answer: The Washington Post

Category: Colorful Language
19. It precedes fever and pimpernel.
Correct answer: Scarlet

Category: 20th Century Literature
20. This 1982 novel tells the story of an African-American woman named Celie.
Correct answer: The Color Purple

Category: 19th Century America
21. Gold found on this mans land in 1848 precipitated the California Gold Rush.
Correct answer: Sutter

Category: Online Games
22. In 2010 this Zynga game grew to be No. 1 in average daily users on Facebook.
Correct answer: Farmville

Category: Novelists
23. In 2011 he penned the bestseller 11/22/63.
Correct answer: Stephen King

Category: Gemstones
24. Julys birthstone is this red variety of corundum.
Correct answer: ruby

Category: Mountains
25. South Americas higheset peak, Mt. Aconcagua, is found in this mountain range.
Correct answer: Andes

Category: Pop Singers
26. In 2010 she was Rolling in the Deep.
Correct answer: Adele

Category: World Authors
27. During his sailing days, this Heart of Darkness author may have been involved in illegal gunrunning.
Correct answer: Conrad

Category: Scientific Discoveries
28. In 1953 Watson & Crick discovered the structure of this genetic molecule.
Correct answer: DNA

Category: U.S. Cities
29. Its the capital of Wisconsin.
Correct answer: Madison

Category: Classical Music
30. This Four Seasons composer helped develop the baroque concerto.
Correct answer: Vivaldi

Category: Rhyme Time
31. An azure sneaker.
Correct answer: Blue Shoe

Category: Canadian Postal Abbreviations
32. P.E. stands for this Canadian province thats off the North American mainland.
Correct answer: Prince Edward Island

Category: Early America
33. These documents served as our basic charter of government from 1781 until the Constitution in 1789.
Correct answer: The Articles of Confederation

Category: The Late 20th Century
34. In 1991 Slovenia & Crotia became free republics, breaking away & declaring independence from this country.
Correct answer: Yugoslavia

Category: American Lit
35. Queequeg is a tattoed former criminal & harpooner in this great American novel.
Correct answer: Moby-Dick

Category: U.S. Geography
36. The southernmost U.S. state is also one of the smallest in area.
Correct answer: Hawaii

Category: Cable TV
37. TV shows on this cable channel include The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Correct answer: Bravo

Category: Weights & Measures
38. Used for measuring wheat & other grains, this unit of measure equals 4 pecks.
Correct answer: Bushel

Category: The Elements
39. Atomic number 92, this element named for a planet is an important nuclear fuel.
Correct answer: uranium

Category: French Lit
40. Works by this Algerian-born existential author include his masterpiece The Stranger.
Correct answer: Albert Camus

Category: X Marks the Spot
41. Fear of Foreigners
Correct answer: xenophobia

Category: Bodies of Water
42. Though called a sea, this body of water east of the Caucasus is really the worlds largest lake.
Correct answer: Caspian Sea

Category: Fashion
43. This designing woman with the real first name Gabrielle introduced her classic little black dress in 1926.
Correct answer: Coco Chanel

Category: Explorers
44. A sea, a strait & an island all bear the name of this Dane who explored the Siberian coast in the 18th century.
Correct answer: Vitus Bering

Category: Political Parties
45. The African National Congress saw this man, its leader, elected President of South Africa in 1994.
Correct answer: Nelson Mandela

Category: Modern Fiction
46. Young Susie Salmon tells her story from Heaven in this Alice Sebold novel about a murder & its aftermath.
Correct answer: The Lovely Bones

Category: D in Science
47. Its the process of evaporating a liquid & then condensing the vapor back into a purified liquid.
Correct answer: Distillation

Category: At the Movies
48. Andrew Garfield helped reboot this superhero franchise in 2012.
Correct answer: Spider-Man

Category: Contemporary Authors
49. Brokeback Mountain is one of the short stories included in this authors collection Close Range.
Correct answer: Annie Proulx

Category: Starts with 2 Vowels
50. Home for an eagle
Correct answer: aerie

 

[Matty]

I got 23.

Turns out I missed the author-in-jail question. Was sure it was Dostoevsky.

 

[Mudcat]

I didn't get that Steve Bullmer was the CEO of Microsoft. Feels like I should have known that - or at least that would have been the obvious guess - but I just froze on that one.

 

[Matty]

Looks like I got all the ones you missed.

Not to brag or anything.

 

[Cami]

Those questions are nothing like I would have thought they would be. Very random and I would probably only get half of them right.

 

[Mudcat]

Absolutely, random is the idea with this. Broad knowledge. They say right up front that there will be 50 questions with 50 different categories.

If you go back to page 1 of this thread there are at least 3 more sample tests.




I see they used a Camus question in the first one as well. They dig their Camus, those Jeopardy guys. But then, what's not to dig?

 

[Matty]

Yeah, I laughed when I saw that question. I remember joking that for Jeopardy, only 2 French people have ever written books - Sartre and Camus.

 

[rito]

I didn't get that Steve Bullmer was the CEO of Microsoft. Feels like I should have known that - or at least that would have been the obvious guess - but I just froze on that one.

I think that's the only one I know.

 

[Mudcat]

Yeah, I laughed when I saw that question. I remember joking that for Jeopardy, only 2 French people have ever written books - Sartre and Camus.

They need more Balzac questions.

It's funny because it sounds so much like ballsack.



Good times.

 

[Matty]

Ok, I bet they prolly had Balzac before. Remote chance they ever asked about Maupassant and Stendhal.

 

[Saulty]

Ball not Bull.

 

[Mudcat]

France does things in 2's.

There have been the 2 writers.

They have had 2 kings, Louis XIV and Louis XVI. (Why they use those big numbers after their names when there have only been 2, I don't know.)

And then they have had the other 2 non-kingish leaders, Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles DeGaulle.




Maybe if France can stick around for awhile it can start to have more history.

 

[MrMonkey]

Great work there Muddy!

 

[Mudcat]

Weeeeeeeee. Hope they call.

 

[reno cool]

I would have gotten the capitals of Ukraine and Wisconsin right and the Yugoslavia question. Probably the Andes and Caspian Sea. yep geography rj :

 

[Saulty]

This is tough. I had 5 correct answers.

 

[Matty]

I lucksacked the Caspian Sea one. It's the only guess I got right.

 

[roguejuror]

Stendhal.

The Stendhal Syndrome

classic italian horror