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Jeopardy - Class_of_75 - 01-03-2017

This guy had his conferences mixed up.  :)

http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/video-jeopardy-contestant-gets-sec-schools-pac-12-schools-mixed/

Re: Jeorpardy - Spiny_Norman - 01-03-2017

I am currently in the contestant pool for Jeopardy.  The odds are a little better than 1 in 10 that I will be selected to compete on the show.  Still, why couldn't they have saved this question for me!!

Re: Jeorpardy - CornFed - 01-03-2017

(01-03-2017, 04:20 PM)Spiny_Norman link Wrote:I am currently in the contestant pool for Jeopardy.  The odds are a little better than 1 in 10 that I will be selected to compete on the show.  Still, why couldn't they have saved this question for me!!

I am hoping you are selected to play and that they have a categories such as "the Ministry of Silly Walks" and "Characteristics of the African Swallow".  Go git 'em, Spiny!!!!

Re: Jeopardy - Bruce Wang - 01-04-2017

My wife and I tried out for Who Wants to be a Millionaire's Engaged Couple Edition, figuring only a small % of the population is engaged at a given time.  Sure enough it was easy to get into the tryout.  Between the two of us, we didn't miss a single question on the written test.  There was one lady of an older couple that said her fiancee would only make it official if they won Millionaire.  A compelling story but they didn't make it past the written test. 

During the first interview, I was ON.  The interviewer asked us how we would spend any winnings on the wedding.  I told her I would hire Grand Master Flash to DJ the wedding.  Realizing I was too ON, I hung back on the 2nd interview.  Flash forward a couple weeks and my fiancee (now wife) gets a call.  They decided they wanted her for the show, not the two of us.

So I ended up being the phone a friend lifeline.  She used all the lifelines on the $25k question.  I didn't know the answer and had to look it up on the Internet.  What kills me is that I knew the answer to the $100k question off the top of my head "Who wrote a syndicated column titled 'My Day' for 30 years?"

I tell myself that they didn't want me on the show because they didn't want to pay us $1 million.  The sad truth is that I failed the looks and personality test.

Re: Jeopardy - FarmBoy - 01-05-2017

You can't leave us hanging! How much did she walk away with?

Re: Jeopardy - Bruce Wang - 01-05-2017

(01-05-2017, 07:15 AM)FarmBoy link Wrote:You can't leave us hanging! How much did she walk away with?

Sorry my recap was not clear.  We got $25k.  That question was "Where can the Thermohaline Circulation be found?"  And the writer of the "My Day" column was Eleanor Roosevelt.  My wife got thrown off by the passing away of another possible answer, Coretta Scott King.

Re: Jeopardy - GoodGrief - 01-05-2017

(01-04-2017, 09:48 PM)Publius link Wrote:I tell myself that they didn't want me on the show because they didn't want to pay us $1 million.  The sad truth is that I failed the looks and personality test.

As a professional actor who doesn't get cast in 90% of the things I try out for,  I can assure you that you didn't fail anything. Casting is a really subjective process, and it is affected by things completely beyond your control (for instance do you look like a producer's ex, or have they had somebody on the show who looks a lot like you already)

So nah, you didn't fail anything. And you should still keep trying to get on the show. I think Spiny's perpetually a regular in the Jeopardy "maybe we will let you on the show if the phase of the moon turns just right "pool


Re: Jeopardy - French Rage - 01-05-2017

Spiny, how long ago did you audition?

Re: Jeopardy - Spiny_Norman - 01-05-2017

I have had three auditions - 2013 for Jeopardy (not selected); 2014 for Sports Jeopardy (not selected) and most recently this past September for Jeopardy.  So I will be in the contestant pool for another 15 months.

French Rage, if you have been through this process, you know that the odds are long.  Each year they audition around 3000 people.  Approx 400 make it on the show.

Re: Jeopardy - Treebound - 01-05-2017

I love it Spiny!  Keep trying out!  One of my dorm mates and fraternity brothers hit the Jeopardy jackpot a number of years ago.  I don't remember the amount he won, but he did win big! 

Here's a Daily article on past Stanford College Jeopardy winners for motivation:

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2014/02/11/stanford-jeopardy-contestants-reflect-on-experiences-on-air/


Re: Jeopardy - fullmetal - 01-05-2017

(01-05-2017, 08:24 AM)Publius link Wrote:Sorry my recap was not clear.  We got $25k.  That question was "Where can the Thermohaline Circulation be found?"  And the writer of the "My Day" column was Eleanor Roosevelt.  My wife got thrown off by the passing away of another possible answer, Coretta Scott King.

I would have answered very generically "the ocean."  What answer did they want?

Re: Jeopardy - SamuelMcF - 01-05-2017

Stanford has one hell of a College Jeopardy pipeline.

Re: Jeopardy - Embo - 01-05-2017

There's another Jeopardy participant that you'll hear at home football games.  It's Steve Frost, class of '96, former long snapper, brother of Scott Frost, and stadium announcer.  He was a three time Jeopardy champion.  Another "only at Stanford" factoid.

I've taken the on-line Jeopardy test, as I've always been extremely talented with trivia, a gift that serves me well in medicine.  (I fondly remember a dorm-wide trivia contest when I was a freshman, emceed by a senior.  When he asked the question, "Whose portrait appears on the $10,000 bill", my hand was the only one that shot up, and I calmly answered it correctly.  The room was blown away - a freshman knew this!)  I wish I knew what my online test score was, but Jeopardy won't tell you.  I do realize the odds of getting on the show are long - there are only two new contestants per show, so that's 10 a week, and there are not 52 weeks of new contestants because they have tournaments.  Who knows how many people take the online test - it must be way more than the 3,000 they audition.

Oh, one other thing I remember reading in Sports Illustrated (I happened to keep the issue because it had a long article on Bill Walsh's return to Stanford in 1992):  There was a feature article about Jeopardy.  Alex Trebek said that, in general, most contestants do not care about the winnings.  They just want to show off how much they know.




Re: Jeopardy - French Rage - 01-05-2017

(01-05-2017, 10:31 AM)Spiny_Norman link Wrote:I have had three auditions - 2013 for Jeopardy (not selected); 2014 for Sports Jeopardy (not selected) and most recently this past September for Jeopardy.  So I will be in the contestant pool for another 15 months.

French Rage, if you have been through this process, you know that the odds are long.  Each year they audition around 3000 people.  Approx 400 make it on the show.

Indeed, I know people who have heard back and gone on the show a month after their audition, some who didn't hear back and go on until almost a year after their audition, and some who ended up going to subsequent auditions.  So it is a bit of a crapshoot what will happen afterwards, but to me the mystery of never knowing if/when you'll get called up makes it all the more fun.

Re: Jeopardy - Spiny_Norman - 01-05-2017

Embo, Maggie Speak (contestant coordinator and Jeopardy ambassador extraordinaire) told our audition group that 70,000 people took the online test this past year.  You have to score 35 or higher out of 50 to be eligible for an audition.  You can easily check your score if you remember your answers.  The questions are posted on jboard.tv (the J! bulletin board) and on youtube.

Jeopardy has never announced how many of those who take the test score 35 or higher. It is just the luck of the draw if you are chosen for an audition.  Keep trying!  If you do get an audition, let me know.  I will be glad to share advice and what-to-expect based on my experience.

And if anyone is in LA and wants to join me for trivia, I regularly play with a great bunch of people (several of whom have won a lot of money on Jeopardy).

Re: Jeopardy - qwerty49 - 01-05-2017

I was on in '92 (actually we taped a few months earlier).

One thing that most folks at home don't know is that the board is locked out for a small time (I think it is 0.25 seconds) after Alex finishes reading the answer.  You can't click in early; if you do, you are locked out for another small time (which is always long enough for someone else to click in).  So watching at home, most of us wonder why we know the question before the players even react.  Believe me, the trick as a player is to time when you can click in.  Almost always, at least two of you know the question and it's just a matter of who times the click-in best.

I'm in LA a lot visiting relatives and back then I just went to the studio and took a timed written test.  Pretty sure I didn't miss any. There were about 90 others there and they selected three of us to do a "mock round" using manual bells (the kind you ring on counters for service).  I won that round pretty easily and they sent me home and told me they'd contact me for taping.  That was in July, and we taped in Oct.

We also got a tour of the studio and set -- Alex's closet was the size of the entire ground floor of my house, maybe 200-300 suits hanging around the wall.

FWIW I was leading after J, last after DJ, but 2nd in FJ when the eventual winner and I both bet everything.  But I declined the prizes, including a vacation trip, since they sent me a 1099 declaring the airfare and hotel costs at full rack rate -- it would have cost me a couple thousand bucks in tax.

6 months later I was working on a project in Toronto, and one morning got funny looks from the people in the client's cafeteria.  Turns out the show airs in Toronto 6 months after it airs in the US, and after the night before they were all wondering how I got to and from Toronto so quickly overnight, LOL.   



Re: Jeopardy - fullmetal - 01-05-2017

Taxed on the prizes at full rate, ouch!  Good way for them to use the IRS to reduce their actual expenditures :)  And welcome to the board!  The captcha goes away after about 10 posts...

Re: Jeopardy - BostonCard - 01-05-2017

Hey Qwerty!  How are things?  Do you still post on the Bootleg CEB?  I sometimes visit and then am reminded of why I left.

BC

Re: Jeopardy - qwerty49 - 01-05-2017

(01-05-2017, 05:42 PM)Boston Card link Wrote:Hey Qwerty!  How are things?  Do you still post on the Bootleg CEB?  I sometimes visit and then am reminded of why I left.

BC

BC, your last sentence rings true.  Couldn't take the CEB anymore.  A monaural echo chamber.  The entire tone of the site as a whole has taken a turn for the worse, I felt more and more dragged into the bog, and this time around it was a very easy decision to save a hundred bucks. 

Re: Jeopardy - French Rage - 02-27-2017

Spiny, you were correct to suspect I may have gone through the Jeopardy process...

I will be on the episode on Tuesday March 7th!  We taped back in the last few days of November but I've held back on announcing anything until a couple weeks of the airdate.  I was actually in the contestant pool for this week's episodes too, but did not get called up until the next day (which in terms of episodes is the next week, since they tape 5 a day).

- I tried to post my picture with Alex but apparently it's too large!