The Jeopardy contestant search exam

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
 
I got 23.

Turns out I missed the author-in-jail question. Was sure it was Dostoevsky.
 
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.
 
Looks like I got all the ones you missed.

Not to brag or anything.
 
Those questions are nothing like I would have thought they would be. Very random and I would probably only get half of them right.
 
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?
 
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.
 
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.
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I think that's the only one I know.
 
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.
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They need more Balzac questions.

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



Good times.
 
Ok, I bet they prolly had Balzac before. Remote chance they ever asked about Maupassant and Stendhal.
 
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.
 
I would have gotten the capitals of Ukraine and Wisconsin right and the Yugoslavia question. Probably the Andes and Caspian Sea. yep geography rj :up:
 
I lucksacked the Caspian Sea one. It's the only guess I got right.
 
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