Jeopardy! Online Test

Buster28

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Just a reminder/bump about the Jeopardy! online tests this week. For those who are registered, the times are as follows: Tuesday (October 4) at 7 pm Central, Wednesday at 8 pm Central, and Thursday, 10 pm Central. You can choose to take the test on any of the three days listed, but can only take the test once.

Good luck to all!
 

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Got another email for the next online Jeopardy! test which will occur between May 30 and June 1. Register at the link if you have interest in trying. Don't know if I ever mentioned this before, but it's not a bad idea to get a small group of people together with laptops to take the test. As a group, you greatly increase your chances of 'passing' the test and being put in the pool of applicants to move on to the in-person testing. They never tell you what the passing score actually is, so you just have to do as well as you can, then wait and see if you hear anything.

https://www.jeopardy.com/be-a-conte...May_1_2017_Newsletter&utm_content=Story_1_CTA
 

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Took the test last night (forgot the first night, family medical issue the second night). I think I did ok. Did anyone else besides myself and SNEDDS3 take it? Good luck in moving on to the interview round, whenever that may be. :)
 

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Love Jeopardy. Hate that they have this strange fascination of William Shakespear. Seems like every single day they have him as a category. Plus, I have never read his stuff so I have no idea.
 
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Buster28

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I took it and realized most of their categories are things I simply don't know.

french poetry, english monarchs, botany, etc.

I know! I always trip up over literature stuff. Know virtually nothing about most of it, at least as far as they're concerned. Everything else is hit-n-miss. I've made it to their round two twice before over the past ten years, but didn't get selected. Maybe third time's a charm. Time will tell!
 

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I registered to take it. Forgot the first night and was drunk the second (and did not take it).
 

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I took it last night as well. This time was tougher than most in my opinion or at least I didn't know very many of the questions. Ah well.
 

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Also, what did everyone answer for the shakespeare aplhpabetical one. I think it was something like "which comes first alphabetically in Shakespeare's plays?" I put A Mid Summers Night Dream but then someone mentioned All's Well That Ends Well and now I'm concerned.
 

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Also, what did everyone answer for the shakespeare aplhpabetical one. I think it was something like "which comes first alphabetically in Shakespeare's plays?" I put A Mid Summers Night Dream but then someone mentioned All's Well That Ends Well and now I'm concerned.

I came up with "As You Like It." Don't know if that's right or not, though.
 

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Well I think it depends if they stop it at the space or not. If they do, then A Midsummer Night's Dream is #1 but if not then All's Well That Ends Well is. As You Like it is either 2nd or 3rd regardless though. :(
 

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Doubt he posts here but there is a poker dealer at prairie meadows named Jim who has made it pretty far through all the tests and interviews. I think he is or was close to making it on the show, smart dude