Online Test Recap & Discussion (Central), January 8, 2014

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Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (Central), January 8, 2014

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I'll put in my vote for today's being noticeably easier than yesterday's.
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46/50 doing this one for real. Missed Homeland, King, Siri, and Quantum. I guessed "max" for the last one, the weird ";Planck' down" phrasing leading me to look for some sort of cutesiness to the answer.
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plasticene wrote:
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EndlessEntropy wrote:35 for me, 36 if they accept "macbeth" along with "lady macbeth." I really hope the cutoff is 35 and doesn't change by 1 or more each year..... Oh well, got the college test in a few months. This was about average, just so many brain farts and facepalms!
No way they accept Macbeth, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are two different people.
I disagree. Lady Macbeth is the only female Shakespeare character whose last name (so to speak) is Macbeth, so I'd be surprised if they didn't accept it.
So here's a question: If Macbeth is a last name, what's his (or her) first name?
They may accept it because of the nature of the test, but as I was playing it didn't seem a wise time to stick to that particular rule...
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I put up a second 50/50 tonight fwiw. The first time I've done it on back to back tests.

Tonight's test as far as depth was maybe a little bit tougher; closer in difficulty to past years' tests (as last night's test was, relatively speaking, a bit of walkover imo).

Got a cool text from Drake after tonight's test congratulating me on my internet quiz millions and calling me his favorite member of the JBoard
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48 last night and 49 tonight (said erg instead of quantum)
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Looks like I got 40.

My "favorite" answer was McKinley -- I can't forget that he was president at the beginning of the 20th century because I love the headline on a fake "Onion" front page, "A NEW CENTURY DAWNS! MCKINLEY USHERS IN BOLD NEW 'COAL AGE.'"
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The 50 answers as far as I know. PLEASE correct me if I've made any errors.
Spoiler
1 x Bering
2 Homeland
3 Veils
4 King
5 Baltic
6 Argonauts
7 Troposphere
8 x Mamet
9 Cloverleaf
10 Palin
11 Eminem
12 x Eucalyptus
13 Panama Canal
14 siesta
15 x Titian
16 Emma
17 Joyce
18 x Negev
19 Allen
20 Quantum/Quanta
21 Corinthian
22 Slumlord
23 x Heart of Darkness
24 Wynn
25 Putin
26 x Neptune
27 McKinley
28 Quebec
29 x Floss
30 x Bergman
31 Cash cow
32 Lady Macbeth
33 Riga
34 x Siri
35 x Puritans
36 x Socrates
37 x Atkins
38 Mandible
39 Istanbul
40 Hawthorne
41 Embargo
42 x Daniel
43 Sugar Bowl
44 Sweden
45 Dyslexia
46 Reign of Terror
47 Rubio
48 Netherlands
49 Bates
50 Mullet
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Looks like I got 36....I thought I did poorly. I knew a few but couldn't get them out in time. And had a few lucky guesses to score.
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TreehugginCowgirl wrote:
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TreehugginCowgirl wrote:Did anyone get the legal naval "E" question? I'm trying to google it, and I'll I'm getting is Pearl Harbor.
I believe it may have been Embargo.
Well that seems embarrassingly obvious now.
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And 38, so a tad harder than last night.

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New to this... got a 35, 36 if they count protosphere. What's been the general cutoff?
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46 tonight, taking the test for fun online. I missed quantum, Baltic Sea, troposphere, and the Reign of Terror.
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ElendilPickle wrote:46 tonight, taking the test for fun online. I missed quantum, Baltic Sea, troposphere, and the Reign of Terror.
I got Baltic, Troposphere, Reign of Terror. Every one of those was a guess and I was absolutely sure that they were wrong guesses. If you asked me what the "Reign of Terror" was, I couldn't tell you in a million years. It's a term I'd heard but I had zero idea that it had anything to do with the French Revolution. If you'd asked me if it had anything to do with France, I'd have said no. But in 15 seconds, I typed it. bingo.
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32 after 37 yesterday, and my test is Thursday. We'll see how that goes. I think my real range is in between those two.

It's nice to see sports have disappeared from these tests almost entirely at this point.
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Fishercat wrote:32 after 37 yesterday, and my test is Thursday. We'll see how that goes. I think my real range is in between those two.

It's nice to see sports have disappeared from these tests almost entirely at this point.
I disagree :(

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timk wrote:I didn't take the test for real, but in my mock playing along with the video, I said cloverleaf. Fairly confident on that one.
Wow. Never, ever heard of that.

My only trouble section was the first ten, but since I missed seven, it hardly matters how I did on the other forty.
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I think I typed "Quanta" (the plural of "Quantum").... think that counts?
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Taffy the Welshman wrote:
timk wrote:I didn't take the test for real, but in my mock playing along with the video, I said cloverleaf. Fairly confident on that one.
Wow. Never, ever heard of that.

My only trouble section was the first ten, but since I missed seven, it hardly matters how I did on the other forty.
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Thanks. I know it as a rotary or roundabout.
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Taffy the Welshman wrote:
Thanks. I know it as a rotary or roundabout.
That word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Taffy the Welshman wrote:Thanks. I know it as a rotary or roundabout.
No, you don't. Totally different thing.
In a rotary/ roundabout, all cars entering the crossing use the same road to get to their new direction.
In a cloverleaf, each direction has its own ramp to change their new path to be a right angle to their old one. Those moving 270` (say, due north to due west, thereby crossing over traffic, or a "left hand turn" in a rotary)) use a full-circle ramp. A rotary "right hand turn" is a much simpler arced quarter circle ramp.
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