Online Test Recap & Discussion (Eastern), January 26, 2016

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Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (Eastern), January 26, 2016

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UniquePerspective wrote:Sherder's video is up.

Judges:

Congesta for the wagon.
Iberia for the peninsula.
Dowton Abbey for the show (because the way the first N is sometimes not clear to me I wasn't sure whether it existed).

Thoughts?
I think they would only give you the third since that looks like a typo
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Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (Eastern), January 26, 2016

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UniquePerspective wrote:Sherder's video is up.
Sorry it took so long. I had a glitch that I think I can fix by test time tomorrow.
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Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (Eastern), January 26, 2016

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UniquePerspective wrote:Sherder's video is up.

Judges:

Congesta for the wagon.
Iberia for the peninsula.
Dowton Abbey for the show (because the way the first N is sometimes not clear to me I wasn't sure whether it existed).

Thoughts?
Congesta -- doubtful
Iberia -- that is the name, so yeah
Dowton Abbey -- if that's all you put, then no. If you followed it with Road, then you should be fine.
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Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (Eastern), January 26, 2016

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Watched the wife take this she breezed through I kept tabs looks like a 43-ish score based on Lampy's spoiler; she only left 2 unfilled.
Kicking myself for waiting till tomorrow's time but I can't pass with the kids running around screaming and kicking; they do it every year!
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BTW Shold read "Downton Abbey Road." ;) IDK if the PC algorithm that grades these will take Dowton, anyone's guess IMHO.

Iberia or Iberian Peninsula would be acc IMHO. Daniel was thrown in the lion's den for giving an unfavorable interpretation of Neb's dream, lol.

Equus quagga = Zebra (Grant's, Burchell's et alii.) A quagga is an extinct subspecies... toughie! Grevy's is a distinct subspecies. This one was wayyyy down in the weeeedz... wowo!
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Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (Eastern), January 26, 2016

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zakharov wrote:
UniquePerspective wrote:Sherder's video is up.

Judges:

Congesta for the wagon.
Iberia for the peninsula.
Dowton Abbey for the show (because the way the first N is sometimes not clear to me I wasn't sure whether it existed).

Thoughts?
I think they would only give you the third since that looks like a typo
They'll give Iberia, too.
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Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (Eastern), January 26, 2016

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econgator wrote:
UniquePerspective wrote:Sherder's video is up.

Dowton Abbey -- if that's all you put, then no. If you followed it with Road, then you should be fine.
I did include Road.
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Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (Eastern), January 26, 2016

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Took this one for real, and the result is just about my standard - 44/50 tonight. I just didn't know or picked wrong on a coin flip for most of those wrong ones, but I read # 39 wrong, thinking they wanted what "quagga" meant, then reread the question, removed my wrong answer and didn't have time to put in what was really a very easy answer. SOOOO stupid, but I really shouldn't complain. At least this time, I was 7 questions in before I hit my first real stumper. Seems like that often happens on the first question or two, which really upsets my equilibrium for the rest.
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Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (Eastern), January 26, 2016

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Took it for fun and got 38. Two years ago I got 40 or 41- way before I started tracking my scores- so this test was much harder IMO. Unfortunately this math professor goofed up the GCF question.
Lampy should've recorded a video of himself taking the test; he's gotten 90% of his LL questions so I believe his spoilerized answers are right.
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Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (Eastern), January 26, 2016

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UniquePerspective wrote:Sherder's video is up.

Judges:

Congesta for the wagon.
Iberia for the peninsula.
Dowton Abbey for the show (because the way the first N is sometimes not clear to me I wasn't sure whether it existed).

Thoughts?
No
Yes (though "Iberia" is actually just an airline and not proper usage for much else, technically)
Probably if they allow minor typos
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Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (Eastern), January 26, 2016

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43 for me missing:

84 & 105 (what a surprise - although I figured it out by about clue 35 :) )
the science "C" (wrote convection to have something)
ACB (know about them, but no idea on the acronym or that they were close to J! relevant)
the yellow green element (science again)
equus (science again)
long/lat digital photo (wrote plot)
The Bells (It was a Poe guess)

Anyone who missed the Adele song or the Hawkins book is just not paying enough attention anywhere whether on this board or outside of it.

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ETA: I had to subtract another point when after reading the comments I realized I also missed the element one.
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Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (Eastern), January 26, 2016

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So far, of the three people I know on FB that actually own adult coloring books, none of them have ever heard of it referred to by the ACB acronym.
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Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (Eastern), January 26, 2016

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I couldn't log on. So 90 minutes later I went to the MY Profile on jeopardy.com and it says I had pre chosen to take the test on Wed 1/27. I had forgotten I did that, in the past it was always a last minute decision do I take it now or wait till tomorrow, but it didn't allow me to take it, most likely because 1/27 was my chosen test date.
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Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (Eastern), January 26, 2016

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I typed in Abel's Fables instead of Abel Fable. If that is accepted, I got 40. If not, I got a 39. Although I was back to getting very nervous during the test (first time in a couple of years), the only one I missed that I should have gotten within the time allowed was Iberian. In the middle of typing out the next answer I yelled out "IBERIAN!!" Just blanked on it.
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Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (Eastern), January 26, 2016

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47 here. 18, 28 (ran out of ideas), 41
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Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (Eastern), January 26, 2016

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Not a good night for me. 37 right, with 5-6 more I should have gotten.
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Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (Eastern), January 26, 2016

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Wife got 33/34 tonight without any prep. I took for fun on my own just now and got a 36. Wish I had taken it tonight to secure the pass, but maybe I'll do better tomorrow!
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Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (Eastern), January 26, 2016

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My dashboard now shows the test as completed.
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Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (Eastern), January 26, 2016

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45/50 for me.
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Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (Eastern), January 26, 2016

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If Lampy got 50, I got 47, missing only Girl on a Train (NHOI, guessed Wire), Adult Coloring Book (blank stare), and 21 (found 7 too late to remember I already had 3). Spike Lee, chlorine, Lake Geneva, and geotag were lucky guesses, but even without them I had the other 43 pretty easily.
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Re: Online Test Recap & Discussion (Eastern), January 26, 2016

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Just got an email confirming I completed the test. I count 45/50, which would be my best score.
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