Jeopardy

[Greg]

Test taken.

That was horrible. I blanked on the very first question (Marie Kando) and it went downhill from there.

[cranefly]

If you saw something falling like a rock past you in the beginning, that was me.

LCF and I each took the practice test of 30 clues shortly before.  She got 23.
I got 2.  She didn't believe me.  But that's what I got.  There were three more answers I could have got right, but thought of them too late to type enough in.

For the actual test, I got more than 2, but not by much, and only because there were 50 clues.
I think LCF put herself in the running again.  We'll see.

[Greg]

Excellent

Marie fucking Kondo

[Drunk Monk]

[Greg]

You don't know.

[Drunk Monk]

You don't know.

[Greg]

Would you like a beating?

[The Queen]

I took the Tuesday evening test and it sounds like it was a little easier. I blanked on a few (couldn’t remember Pennywise the clown or E.L. James and of course, forget the pop music question!) but I felt really good about a lot of them. Not as good as the year I made it to the in-person audition, though.

[cranefly]

Lady Cranefly just got notified.

She moves on to the in-person audition stage.

Not that it exists anymore -- at least not in its prior form.

So this Friday she ZOOMs.

[Greg]

Excellent! Good luck to Lady Crane fly!

[Drunk Monk]

Go LCF!

Can you remember to answer in the form of a question?

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

What is “go, Lady CF”?

[Greg]

Yeti, ftw.

[The Queen]

So, LCF, how did it go???

[lady_cranefly]

So, LCF, how did it go???

Hey, everyone. Thank you for the well-wishes.  

It started out a little rocky.  All I had to do was take the 50-question test (by answering the questions out loud) but I couldn't hear the proctor. We futzed between my laptop and phone and she started a new Zoom session before that worked out.

The test went okay, I think.  Once again, I messed up a current music question, though I got the Billie Eilish one, and somehow I remembered that Walloons were associated with Belgium.  I blanked on "Don't Stop Believing," but remembered it after the next question, though I don't know if that still counted. And I totally spaced President Pro Tempore of the Senate and Sappho.  I kept thinking Solon for Sappho and even though I knew it was wrong I couldn't get it out of my head.

I feel like I started pretty strong and then got bogged down.

They recorded the session.  I'll be notified in a few weeks if I go to the next level, though I don't know what that is at this point.  During previous auditions it was the mock game.  

Fingers crossed.  

Cranefly rocked Final Jeopardy tonight.  (If anything about Jeopardy can be rocked.)  :-)

LCF