For the record, the Jeopardy people state that the online test consists of questions from the bottom two rows on a standard Jeopardy board.

Here are the 50 questions from tonight's online test, #'s 37 and 41 were total stumpers for me.



1. BYGONE KINGS
His title in French was "Le roi soleil"

2. MOVIE FACTS
Steven Spielberg wasn't yet 30 when he directed this 1975 scarefest that became one of the biggest hits ever

3. FICTION
Dan Brown introduced the character Robert Langdon in this novel that preceded "The DaVinci Code"

4. STATE CAPITALS
This city of about 175,000 people, also a state capital, was named by Roger Williams

5. WHAT'S FOR LUNCH
This Mexican dish is meat & veggies coated with masa dough & wrapped in a corn husk

6. FAMOUS AMERICANS
This man who died in CA in 1926 developed over 800 plant varieties, including a russet potato that bears his name

7. POETS
Her "Sonnets from the Portugese" was dedicated to her husband Robert

8. ALSO A BODY PART
This body part is also a term for certain baby mammals, like elephants

9. HISTORIC PLACES
It's a national monument in Charleston Harbor

10. PAINTINGS
This 1893 painting is perhaps the most famous artwork ever done in Norway

11. ANNUAL EVENTS
The UFO Encounter Festival takes place each July in this New Mexico city

12. CABLE TV
Since 2006 Tom Colicchio has been the head judge on this Bravo cooking show

13. MIDDLE EAST GEOGRAPHY
Riyadh is the capital of this country

14. TECHNOLOGY
Version 4 of this popular communications device includes Facetime, a system for video calling

15. SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES
This title character has Banquo killed & is later visited by Banquo's ghost

16. MEDICINE
Conjunctivitis, an inflammation of the membrane that lines the eye, is commonly known as this

17. CROSSWORD CLUES "H"
Emporium for men's clothes & hats (12)

18. BIBLICAL PEOPLE
She's the "she" in the verse "She caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head"

19. THAT'S COLD!
Temperatures can reacn -90 degrees in this area that makes up 75% of the world's biggest country

20. LITERARY TERMS
Type of novel that's often set in a gloomy castle designed in the arch. style of the same name

21. DISASTERS
Masses of pumice from this volcano landed in the ocean & halted ships around Indonesia in 1883

22. ROCK MUSICIANS
In U2 Bono sings lead; this man, born David Evans, plays lead guitar

23. MINERALS
Halite is also called rock this

24. CANADA
With 5.1 million in the metro area, it's Canada's most populous city

25. HOTELS
The Regal Maxwell House & the Sheraton Music City are found in this souther US city

26. PULITZER PRIZE NOVELS
This "News" got E. Anne Proulx the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for fiction

27. HOMOPHONES
To dwell gloomily on a subject, or having made tea

28. CLASSICAL MUSIC
His opera "The Marriage of Figaro" premiered in Vienna in 1786

29. FAMOUS WOMEN
Julia Ward Howe wrote this hymn that begins, "Mine eyes have seen the glory..."

30. ORGANIZATIONS
In 1980 2 animal rights activists founded the organization known by this 4-letter name for short

31. PRAYERS
It's also called the "Our Father", after its first two words

32. ENTREPENEURS
Last name of Tim & Nina whose first published guide was a survey of NYC restaurants

33. BASEBALL
A Major League team in this state has dropped the "Devil" in its name

34. ANIMALS
The hedgehog, an insectivore, weighs about 2 pounds; this similar-looking rodent gets up to about 15

35. FAMOUS "M.M."s
Representing KY, he's the Senate Minority Leader

36. ENGLISH LIT
The travelers in his "Canterbury Tales" are on a pilgrimage to the shrin of Thomas Becket

37. THE 1990s
Clinton promised to "End" this social program "as we know it" & signed a bill to do so in Aug 1996

38. AT THE SPA
The name of this type of massage from Japan means "finger-pressure"

39. WORLD CAPITALS
It's the capital of Australia

40. THEATER
To the music of Elton John, this title character goes from boxing to ballet

41. WORD ORIGINS
From the Old French for "bundle", it's the bundle of clothing and linens a bride collects for her marriage

42. NOVEL CHARACTERS
Robinson Crusoe gave this name to a native he saved from cannibals

43. LANGUAGES
Of the Semitic languages, this one is spoken by the most people

44. ACTORS
He played the title king in "The King's Speech"

45. MAN IN SPACE
The name of this Soviet venture means "Peace", & pieces fell into the Pacific in a 2001 controlled reentry

46. PHYSICS
Kinetic & potential are types of this

47. US BODIES OF WATER
The Gila River joins this river near Yuma, AZ

48. OPERA
An opera about his historic 1972 diplomatic visit to CHina got its first performance in 2011

49. BIOGRAPHIES
Jon Meacham's Pulitzer winning "American Lion" is a portrait of this 7th President

50. BEFORE & AFTER
He sang "Like a rolling stone" & wrote "A Child's Christmas in Wales"

even reading some back with all the time in the world, i dont have a clue.

i have an in-person audition in may. any veterans here who can offer advice on how to get selected (other than acing the test, obv)?

Has nothing to do with acing the test, you've already proved you have the knowledge by passing the online test. Yes, you will have to take another test at the audition site, but it's simply to show you didn't cheat your way there. And it's usually easier than the online variety.

It's mostly about how you present yourself at the audition, they want you to have a good time and smile. That's probably the most important word to understand, smile. Always smile. Smile while you sit there and listen to directions. Smile when you play the mock game. Smile when they interview you. Smile beforehand if you chat with the contestant coordinators. Smile when they take your picture. Hell, smile when you are taking a piss, get used to it.

It's also important to follow directions while playing the mock game. When it's your turn to pick a category, do so loudly and quickly. When you ring in, ring in exactly like they teach you to. Do not attempt to ring in too early, that's not following directions.

If you follow directions and act like you're having fun, you'll do just fine.

think i got 38, but yeah, definitely some questions i will simply not know

I got 35 just now, my best result ever (assuming they give me "Fort Sumpter"--how could there NOT be a P in there???), and missed a few guppies (New Mexico, Senate Majority leader, etc).

Funny, I missed all three British questions, and my new British roommate came home just as I wrapped up. "Where were YOU when I needed you?" Turns out he was almost no help at all. While his Dylan Thomas contribution was a far better guess than mine of Dylan Walsh (who was that, 90210?), he also couldn't come up with the King's Speech guy, nor the author of the Canterbury Tales. "You should've got that one," he chided, "you work at Canterbury (Park)!"

By the way, here are the answers, and shame on BO for not posting them with the questions:

ANSWERS:

i got 22 right... legitimately think im ******ed now. (In fairness I know a bunch after the fact but panicked with the 15 second clock and just typed anything... but still, stupid)

I got 17, which is probably on par with what I usually get, but in my defense a lot of these questions are pretty damn tough for a Swede (especially since they're in english). Still also feel borderline ******ed when compared to the rest of you, though.

I probably should take the college test.. sigh.

I think Beau was like our Kate to the ladies who watch Jeopardy. He's obviously not a real man, though, as he thought Stockton was passing to Larry Bird.

yeah no self respecting man answers bird there

I missed the last two episodes, Thursday and Friday. For some reason, it hasn't yet been uploaded to Dailymotion. Is there anywhere else to watch it? thanks

$600 early single Jeopardy DD wager lady gets the win. classic "this clue was really easy if you knew what the only non-english part of it meant" Trebek-ism on FJ too

My first thought was The Godfather, but then I was like wait De Niro was in Part II and it doesn't look like there's any Part II in that. So not knowing Italian, I looked at the appearance of the words. It seemed to be saying "The XXXXXXX." So I thought of the big De Niro movies and which ones began with "The" ... Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter. OK, I'll go with that one.

Smarmy know-it-all contestants are pretty bad, but in my mind there's nothing worse than someone who is so utterly clueless they constantly run their mouth and blurt out answers before Trebek prompts them like today's champ.

usually if I know the FJ answer, it was too easy. That was the case tonight.

Also, could the champ be more annoying? Wanted to punch him both time he hit the daily double and paused before saying---let's double it!

I had no idea what they were going for with the initial and name thing. I was just like uh book and barn spider, I'll go with Charlotte's Web.

Surprising all-in FJ wager from leader/champ today. Not sure what to think about it. Guy in second should have bet 700 on that last DD to half the leader's score. If he did, he'd probably have $15k and be returning. Emily was very cute.

No. As a result, can't stand how elite he is at buzzing in first.

The jeopardy round seemed particularly easy tonight, but I like TV and gum

Disappointing to see such a close game decided on a ridiculously easy FJ, you could see the champ fuming too.

$8,000 is too much, it's too much. Let's bet $6,000 instead so if I get it right I'm only in 2nd and if I get it wrong I'm basically eliminated. I wish it had cost her but it was a triple stumper which I knew because I remember Busey in that Buddy Holly movie. She didn't deserve to win after that.

This isn't true since the other two had $18,000 and $16,200, but it was still an absurd decision.

But if she got it wrong she'd be sitting around $5k. A rational 2nd place isn't going to bet enough in FJ to give her a chance since he would need 1st to get it wrong anyway. He would bet $6100 at the most and I don't think 3rd place would be a factor in that scenario.