Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Be A JEOPARDY! Contestant

JEOPARDY! is having an online contestant test where you can take the first step towards becoming a contestant on the show like Cliff Claven. The first test for East Coast viewers took place yesterday. I logged on too late so I'm going to try again tonight. Here is the schedule for anyone who wants to try:

For Central/Mountain viewers:
Wednesday, January 24th at 8 p.m. CST / 7 p.m. MST

For Pacific Coast viewers (including Alaska and Hawaii):
Thursday, January 25th at 8 p.m. PST

The test consists of 50 clues and you have a maximum of 15 seconds to respond to each clue. The test will take approximately 10 minutes.

Unfortunately, JEOPARDY! does not provide the test results, so there's a good chance I will be posting questions that I'm not sure if I answered correctly.

UPDATE 9:30pm I don't think I'll be on the show. Although I did come up with some correct answers such as William Jennings Bryan (well, I wrote Bryant), knowing that Paraguay is the only land-locked country in South America besides Bolivia and that Cornell is the Ivy League school in Ithaca, New York, I did not know the answers to random Shakespeare and literature questions.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

They had that online test yesterday as well. It goes by pretty quickly...more so when you don't know most of the answers and press "pass question." I think out of the 50 I only knew ten answers. I won't be getting a callback anytime soon...

Anonymous said...

I also took the test and probably answered 13 of the 50 questions, with maybe 8 or so correct. It seems so much easier from the comfort of my couch!