The audition
Apr. 22nd, 2003 02:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kellinatorBecause I know you're all dying to know how it went!!
The morning started stressfully when traffic was much heavier than I expected. But my prayers were answered and I arrived on time. There were probably about fifty people there and a camera crew from Macon.
The test was hard. It was fifty questions, without the helpful puns usually contained in Jeopardy clues. I was most confident on the pop-culture questions and luckily there were quite a few literature as well.
After the test the coordinators had a question-and-answer session while the tests were graded. I learned a lot about the show, though damned if I can remember any of it right now. At the end of the session they had door prizes -- a Jeopardy baseball cap if your chair had tape on the back. Mine didn't, but the empty one next to me did, so at the urging of others, I popped into the seat and won the cap. ;)
Then they started reading the list -- and my name was the first called!! I nearly fell out of my seat.
They narrowed the field down to twelve for the mockup, and I was in the last batch (which gave me more time to get nervous). I did quite well in this part -- actually remembered to phrase in the form of a question! -- and then they had the mockup interviews. I quipped that one of the reasons one of my lifetime ambitions was to be on Jeopardy was that I wanted to disprove the email forward I got in college which was a list of "Things You'll Never Hear a Southerner Say" and included "I'll take Physics for $800, Alex." This got one of the biggest laughs of the morning, which delighted me. I think I managed to show my personality as well as my mad skillz.
So now my name goes in the database and I may or may not be on the show in the next fourteen months. Either way, it was a great way to spend my birthday!!
The morning started stressfully when traffic was much heavier than I expected. But my prayers were answered and I arrived on time. There were probably about fifty people there and a camera crew from Macon.
The test was hard. It was fifty questions, without the helpful puns usually contained in Jeopardy clues. I was most confident on the pop-culture questions and luckily there were quite a few literature as well.
After the test the coordinators had a question-and-answer session while the tests were graded. I learned a lot about the show, though damned if I can remember any of it right now. At the end of the session they had door prizes -- a Jeopardy baseball cap if your chair had tape on the back. Mine didn't, but the empty one next to me did, so at the urging of others, I popped into the seat and won the cap. ;)
Then they started reading the list -- and my name was the first called!! I nearly fell out of my seat.
They narrowed the field down to twelve for the mockup, and I was in the last batch (which gave me more time to get nervous). I did quite well in this part -- actually remembered to phrase in the form of a question! -- and then they had the mockup interviews. I quipped that one of the reasons one of my lifetime ambitions was to be on Jeopardy was that I wanted to disprove the email forward I got in college which was a list of "Things You'll Never Hear a Southerner Say" and included "I'll take Physics for $800, Alex." This got one of the biggest laughs of the morning, which delighted me. I think I managed to show my personality as well as my mad skillz.
So now my name goes in the database and I may or may not be on the show in the next fourteen months. Either way, it was a great way to spend my birthday!!
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Date: 2003-04-22 11:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-22 11:39 am (UTC)Re:
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Date: 2003-04-22 11:41 am (UTC)I really hope you get on though, we watch it pretty much every day and then I can ruin the couch springs by bouncing obnoxiously while telling everyone in the house "I know her!"
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Date: 2003-04-22 11:57 am (UTC)I got called about two weeks after the audition, and my tape dates were 2 weeks after that, and then about a month later. I had to be rescheduled, because they always overbook, and I was a local - so you're at an advantage there, since a) Jeopardy probably doesn't overbook as much, since there are only 3 contestants, and b) you're not a local; since it will cost them to fly you to and accommodate you in L.A., you will be at the top of their "not-to-bump" list. :) Come have lunch with me when you come out!
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Date: 2003-05-01 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-05-01 04:17 pm (UTC)the first time:
* Full set and pedicure, to look fabulous on television: $35
* Dry cleaning the 5 required outfits: $22
* Missing a day of work, unpaid: $110
* Getting bumped to another tape date: FUCKING PRICELESS.
the second time:
"I went on Weakest Link yesterday, made an ass of myself, got down to the final two, but didn't win the whopping $3,000 we'd accumulated. This time I don't feel disappointed, though, because I was given a chance and I have only myself to blame... and I had a lot of fun. When I get the little postcardy guy from NBC telling me when the show airs, I'll let you all know so you can all throw popcorn at your TVs as I get really easy questions horribly, horribly wrong. :)"
So that was my experience. :) Keep me posted!
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Date: 2003-04-22 11:58 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-04-22 12:08 pm (UTC)Oooh, can't wait to watch when you're on! (yes, we're all quite sure you'll be called!)
Whhoooo!
Date: 2003-04-22 12:10 pm (UTC)Happpppppppppy Birthday!
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Date: 2003-04-22 12:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-22 12:32 pm (UTC)I've taken the Jeopardy test twice... once for the college tournament, and a few years later for just ordinary Jeopardy... no dice either time. Though I did make it into the talent pool for The Weakest Link... right before 9/11.
I know how hard those tests are, and I'm amazed that you made it. You've impressed this Mensan greatly!
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Date: 2003-04-22 12:41 pm (UTC)cheers,
Phil
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Date: 2003-04-22 12:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-22 01:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-22 01:16 pm (UTC)You go, girl!
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Date: 2003-04-22 02:46 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-04-22 04:07 pm (UTC)And a very happy birthday!
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Date: 2003-04-22 04:45 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-04-22 08:58 pm (UTC)Good luck!
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Date: 2003-04-23 12:07 am (UTC):D
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Date: 2003-04-23 01:42 am (UTC)Happy belated birthday !!
AND CONGRATULATIONS ON THE 14 POUNDS !!
I am so happy for you.
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Date: 2003-04-24 06:38 pm (UTC)