I just took the Jeopardy Online Contestant test, and I blew it big time!

[1monster]

:(

I had fifteen seconds of read the question and type in my response within the fifteen seconds allowed. Some of the questions were hard and some I knew but couldn't keep my fingers on the right keys.

On edit: my fingers are still slipping off the keys.

But I did get an easy government question, the answer of which is reinforced on my brain due to reading DU all the time. :)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. Try their contestant search...

I wanted to try today; but I registered too late. I might do tomorrow's. But, like you, I'm no typist...

[mcscajun]

2. When I took it in person 15 years ago, it was a handwritten test, and

you only had 10 seconds to write your answer. Fifty questions, all high-end double jeopardy level, every question a different category.

How's the test organized now, aside from the time-limit?

[On the Road]

4. It Was Fifty Questions, 15 Seconds Each

A lot of different categories. Some of the correct answers (I think):

NAACP
Lake Champlain
Steven Hawking
The Lost Generation (included Ernest Hemmingway)
Isaiah
Lou Grant
Dutch (official language of Suriname)
Aira (an opera solo)

Some of the others I did not get had to do with:

The "great compromiser" who never made the presidency.
The Bocaccio work in which ten characters tell ten stories in ten days.
Napoleon's British nemesis
Truman Capote's female friend who wrote her only novel in 1960

[mcscajun]

5. Answers:

The "great compromiser" who never made the presidency. Henry Clay
The Bocaccio work in which ten characters tell ten stories in ten days. The Decameron
Napoleon's British nemesis - Wellington
Truman Capote's female friend who wrote her only novel in 1960 - Harper Lee (To Kill A Mockinbird)

[On the Road]

6. Ah -- Wellington is the Only One of Those I Got

Should have thought of Harper Lee. Just didn't occur to me.

You would have done well if you got those off the top of your head.

[mcscajun]

7. I did -- in 1992

:)

[1monster]

8. Wellington wasn't Prime Minister... wasn't that a part of the question?

On edit: Wellington did become Prime Minister after the Napoleonic Wars... Well that's one I missed for not reading more carefully. :(

[On the Road]

3. Hey, Me Too!

It was hard! I think I got about half right.

Were wrong answers deducted like on the television version? There were differences in the rules and I wasn't clear on that.

And what was the government question? The one about the websites? I didn't really get that one.

[1monster]

9. The Fourth Amendment one. But the website question, if I remember

correctly was about what comes after the . in the website address...

[On the Road]

10. Oh, Yeah, the Fourth Amendment Was Easy

So "dot gov" was the answer. I thought they were listing the cabinet departments in some kind of order. That's what fifteen seconds will do.