Post by orvillethird on Oct 26, 2016 4:53:39 GMT
Well, I have the chance to be on television sometime in the next eighteen months. I just got back from a tryout for Jeopardy!, and I found out that I made it into the pool of contestants!
What is Jeopardy!? Well, it's a long-running American game show in which contestants answer trivia in the form of a question. (The gimmick came along a bit after the 50's Game Show scandals, in which the hosts were feeding people answers. Merv Griffin's wife thought of the idea of giving the answer, and then you had to give the question.) The original run lasted from 1964-1975, and the current version began in 1984. Alex Trebek has been the host all through the new run.
How did I get in? Well, like around seventy thousand others, I took an online test. Around seven thousand pass, but around two to three thousand get to the auditions. (Around four hundred people from the auditions make it onto the show. This may not include kids, teens, celebrities, college students or teachers, each of whom have special times. One full-time teacher was in my group and qualified as well for the teacher's tournament.)
What happens at an audition? Well, you turn in a form you filled out, you get a photo taken, you take a 50-question practice test on paper, you play a mock game, and you talk a bit to the staff there. The show sends some staffers, including a producer (Gary Johnson (no relation), who was old enough to have worked on the original Jeopardy! AND season 1 of SNL), some staff and a "Clue Crew" member (who travels the world and helps come up with clues. I think I did well, though not as well as others.
Only sixteen people were there- including a lawyer, a former lawyer turned COO, a paralegal (and her son, a captioner), a paralegal turned teacher/librarian, a teacher (who rode the vomit comet), a legal assistant, a college staffer (living in Belgium!) and me.
Any questions you may have? (Sorry, I cannot reveal any answers to any real or potential questions, though I can safely say they did NOT include "Kebert Xela" or "Three people who have never been in my kitchen.")
What is Jeopardy!? Well, it's a long-running American game show in which contestants answer trivia in the form of a question. (The gimmick came along a bit after the 50's Game Show scandals, in which the hosts were feeding people answers. Merv Griffin's wife thought of the idea of giving the answer, and then you had to give the question.) The original run lasted from 1964-1975, and the current version began in 1984. Alex Trebek has been the host all through the new run.
How did I get in? Well, like around seventy thousand others, I took an online test. Around seven thousand pass, but around two to three thousand get to the auditions. (Around four hundred people from the auditions make it onto the show. This may not include kids, teens, celebrities, college students or teachers, each of whom have special times. One full-time teacher was in my group and qualified as well for the teacher's tournament.)
What happens at an audition? Well, you turn in a form you filled out, you get a photo taken, you take a 50-question practice test on paper, you play a mock game, and you talk a bit to the staff there. The show sends some staffers, including a producer (Gary Johnson (no relation), who was old enough to have worked on the original Jeopardy! AND season 1 of SNL), some staff and a "Clue Crew" member (who travels the world and helps come up with clues. I think I did well, though not as well as others.
Only sixteen people were there- including a lawyer, a former lawyer turned COO, a paralegal (and her son, a captioner), a paralegal turned teacher/librarian, a teacher (who rode the vomit comet), a legal assistant, a college staffer (living in Belgium!) and me.
Any questions you may have? (Sorry, I cannot reveal any answers to any real or potential questions, though I can safely say they did NOT include "Kebert Xela" or "Three people who have never been in my kitchen.")