<p>Is anyone taking the online qualification test in about 12 minutes?? It’s an unfulfilled lifelong dream of mine to be on the show, but I fear I’m too old and my reaction time too slow. I’ll just have to wait for “Jeopardy! The Senior Edition.”</p>
<p>I took the test a couple of years ago (in a hotel, not online) and made the cut. But they called me to fly to LA (which you have to pay for, BTW) the week of my son’s bar mitzvah, so that was the end of that. I think I would have completely frozen on the air anyway. It was enough to know I could have been a contestant. :)</p>
<p>Man, 15 seconds goes by fast!
By the end I was brain-freezing on questions I probably could have answered. Oh well… I’ll try again next year.</p>
<p>Booklady, I’m SO JEALOUS!!! I would have thought seriously about postponing the bar mitzvah–so what if the kid has to learn a different Torah portion, all the guests have to change their reservations and the caterer might be a bit inconvenienced??? I’m sure it would have been fine with the rabbi!!!</p>
<p>My D was sitting next to me for moral support–but I ran out of time on a bunch, and the only thing she helped me on I think was that one answer was Kanye West.</p>
<p>Let’s start a petition for a boomer version of Jeopardy (see my earlier post) “The Senior Edition”.</p>
<p>I was on Jeopardy 13 years ago and the most difficult part was the buzzer! The kids who do video games are way ahead of the rest of us. At this point, the senior edition is the only one I could possibly do!</p>
<p>Booklady, you coulda been a contendah!</p>
<p>I took the test tonight. Drew a complete blank and couldn’t come up with the word “photosynthesis”! Oh well, it was fun to take anyway. Too bad I know nothing about art/classical music/opera.</p>
<p>DH just did it. He thinks he did really well. But he took the test for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire a few years back, aced the tests, interviewed, then never got a callback. His cousin got on Millionaire and won a bundle…</p>
<p>I did appear on Jeopardy a while back. Unfortunately, I lost, but at least I didn’t embarrass myself. It was certainly fun!</p>
<p>I know what you mean about Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Have passed that test a couple of times, we decided I’m just too boring to be on the show! I flunk the interviews. Chedva, that would be my fear, making a complete fool of myself on national TV!</p>
<p>My dad just did it. Um, he did terrible. I mean, I was sitting here typing in his answers for him because he couldn’t type fast enough for 15 seconds or even the 4 seconds he left me to type the answer per question. He freaked out with the literature/science questions for the most part. But, the history/pop culture ones, he got. Ofcourse. It was hard. But, there must be SOMEONE out there that got a perfect score.</p>
<p>I blanked out on photosynthesis, too. AARGH. Missed Kanye West altogether.</p>
<p>Glad I did it. I’ll doubt I did well enough this year. I’ll try again though.</p>
<p>Since he’s not one to toot his own horn, I’ll toot for him. Our very own, Coureur, is a 5 time Jeopardy champion and has many a story to tell abut his experiences. He also has some hints on how to prep…</p>
<p>DH must have gotten a perfect score or close to it. He even got the Kanye West one…because West was the ONLY hip-hop name he could think of. </p>
<p>Let’s see. What do you remember? </p>
<p>The third-longest river in the world, the longest in China, was the Yangtze.</p>
<p>The self-help book by Rhoda or Rhonda Byrne was The Secret.</p>
<p>The Tony Award winner with Christina Ebersole was Grey Gardens.</p>
<p>There was one that was supposed to be two rhyming words…I can’t remember anything else about it except it included monkeys. Was it just a list of types of monkeys? He got it, I’m just blanking on the answers.</p>
<p>The capital of North Dakota was named after Bismarck.</p>
<p>Chunky monkey, the Ben and Jerry’s ice cream??</p>
<p>Oh, maybe that was it, and the category must have been Ben & Jerry’s? Good thing he looked at the category!</p>
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<p>Hey, I’ve never been bashful about talking about Jeopardy. I’m just late to this thread.</p>
<p>I can’t comment on the on-line test, since back in the day we had to try out in person. When I took the test it was 50 questions, and we were given 10 second for each question (which is a lot longer than you get in the actual game). About 100 people took the test in my group and six of us passed. We then had to play a mock game to show we could handle the buzzers and act reasonably lively. There was also a mock interview.</p>
<p>If you passed all those hurdles then it was “Don’t call us, We’ll call you.” They did eventually call me back for a taping date some months later. And the shows aired some months after that. The whole process from test to air date took about a year.</p>
<p>I was indeed an undefeated 5-time champion back in the pre-Ken Jennings era when five was the limit. In the later Tournament Of Champions I won in the first round but tragically lost in the semifinals to the eventual champion. And then in 2005 I was called back for the Ultimate Tournament where they brought back all the old big-time champions to stage a play-off to face Ken. I struggled with the button timing and lost to a young guy in the the first round.</p>
<p>Overall, it was a wonderful and profitable experience. It was my 15 minutes of fame and helped pay for D’s college.</p>
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<p>Wow! Do you know him, or has he posted about this somewhere? </p>
<p>BTW, did you hear Ken Jennings on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me? They tried to come up with three questions that he really wouldn’t know anything about…and he got all three right!</p>
<p>Thanks for posting, Coureur. My friend who was on the show in the 1990s won a good amount of money…but he had had to take a couple of days off from work to go to Atlantic City for the try-outs, then more time off to fly to LA at his own expense. Then he won money in the first game and lost the second one. He said that by the time he factored in the time lost from work, the flights and stay in LA, and the taxes on the winnings plus the Lee Press-On Nails and the year’s supply of yeast, he didn’t make much of a profit on it.</p>
<p>I remember: liver giver, monkeys, water for elephants, opposition leader from Kenya, Bhutto’s son, highest point in antarctica, noble gases, monkeys, roan horse color, Buchanan unmarried president, Thai food, Homer, cygnets baby swan, something about baseball and an asterisk (was that bonds?), perpendicular, </p>
<p>know I missed - opera Fidelio written by Beethoven, Nude Descending Staircase, Chilean poet, the Jane Austen question (and I should have known that one!), southernmost capital of New Zealand</p>