Jepoardy: Inside the auditions for popular US game show
Jepoardy: Inside the auditions for popular US game show . The Fumble This Jeopardy! contestant discovered the perils of getting a question wrong.
This wasnt just a game-show audition. This was a hallowed crowd. Every season, some 70,000 people take an online test in the hopes of gripping a buzzer and asking a question of the silvery, stoic host Alex Trebek on Jeopardy!.
But only 2500 to 3000 – just 3 per cent – make it this far: A windowless room at the bottom of the Westin Hotel in downtown Seattle, where Jeopardy! producers have set up for three days of formal, in-person testing and interviews with those who have made the cut.
They were young and old, men and women, teachers on summer break, programmers and planners from Seattle, Portland, Bellingham and Berkeley. One woman flew in from Reno, and another walked four blocks from her apartment.
The 34th season of Americas Favourite Quiz Show (its trademarked) is already underway, and there is only room for 400 contestants.
But if chosen, the people summoned to the Westin are put into a contestant pool for 18 months, and could get a call to appear on the show as soon as next week.
A successful Jeopardy! contestant has to be able to know difficult material, said Maggie Speak, a gregarious, pistol of a producer who has been running Jeopardy! auditions for 20 years.
Jeopardy! producer Maggie Speak shows what it was like for her to give a US$2.5 million cheque to Ken Jennings, who won 74 games in a row. Shelly Al-Hadrami receives the cheque.
Its more recall than anything else, Speak said. Good players are usually well-read and interested in a wide variety of things. Were also looking for people who play well and have something that people want to watch.
Down in Hollywood, the Jeopardy! folks see Seattle as a place teeming with potential players of all stripes.
Being a Jeopardy! contestant is not just about knowledge, but also personality. You have tech types, fit types, the very well-read. The term nerds is not what it was when I was young..
Most people who audition arent in it for the money. Its a matter of pride, Speak said, then paused. Theyre not going to turn down the money, but its a matter of pride..
Contestants trying out for Jeopardy! test the clicker, trying to be quick but not jump the gun .
Seattle is also known as the hometown of legendary champion Ken Jennings, who in 2004 set a Jeopardy! record for the most consecutive games played while winning 74 games in a row. Hes also the second highest-earning contestant in game-show history.
Ive seen people around him, Speak said. Hes like Paul McCartney..
Speak is the one who handed Jennings his US$2.5 million check. Jennings joked that he was going to put it in a jacket pocket and then put it in the laundry for his wife to find.
Producer Maggie Speak advises budding Jeopardy! contestants to use their big voice and have fun. Speak advised against it.
Each hopeful stood for a photograph and was given a Jeopardy! pen to fill out a questionnaire that included five interesting stories or lies. (The pens oversized red clicker doubled as a practice buzzer).
They then completed a 50-question quiz (they had eight seconds for each answer) before participating in a mock round of Jeopardy! Three at a time, just like on TV.
In between, Kelly Miyahara, a University of Washington graduate who is now part of the shows Clue Crew – three show ambassadors who deliver clues from around the world – opened the floor to questions.
They film a weeks worth of shows in one day: three in the morning, a break for lunch and then two in the afternoon. So contestants are encouraged to bring a few changes of clothes.
There isnt really a dress code, Miyahara said, but be careful with patterns.
The moires, the man beside me said to no one. I had to look it up. an independent usually shimmering pattern seen when two geometrically regular patterns are superimposed especially at an acute angle. Thanks, Merriam-Webster!).
And for Petes sake, Miyahara said, remember to eat. We had a fainter, years ago, she said. A man worried that the camera added 10 pounds, so he had been starving himself. We had to stop tape..
The categories on this day: Italy, Notable Birthdays, TV IQ Test, Ends in EN, Student Aid and The Old Testament. It wasnt easy up there.
One man who said he was a science buff couldnt remember the name of astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson, and despite a clue that contained the word crisp, couldnt come up with Sir Francis Bacon.
Then Speak asked the contestants about themselves: what they did, hobbies, how they would spend the money if they got to the end of the game-show rainbow.
onna Brown of Seattle told Speak that her mother had appeared on Sale of the Century when she was pregnant with her (she still uses the luggage she won on the show) and that her brother, Eric was a Jeopardy! winner who took her on a trip to Mexico.
I have to fulfill this destiny, Brown said about why she auditioned. Portland schoolteacher Scott Montanaro said if he wins, hed love to take his students on a trip.
Every time I show them a photo of a pyramid, they say, field trip! So Id love to do that. I skipped the mock round, but not the test. On my way out, I had to know if I was Trebek-worthy.
So, howd I do? I asked Rebecca Erbstein, one of the producers who tallied the results. Did I bite it?.
Come on, I told her. I didnt even fill in 14 of the 50 answers.. You did do very well, she said, then all but patted my arm. You dont need a perfect score.
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