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Groovelord Neato posted:What if I said I'd use the money to pay my bills. Because that's what I'd do - just pop it in the bank. They specifically tell you not to say that - they tell you they know the reality is that’s what a bunch of people end up doing but they want to hear more fun stories.
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Groovelord Neato posted:Ever since I read in Ken Jennings's book that you need to have 5 stories about yourself I knew I'd never make it past that phase of the audition process. Oh god... my life. I have at least 5 stories about tv shows I've watched. I wonder if that would count. Propaniac posted:
Same. I would love to go on Jeopardy and also Big Brother, but only if none of it ever aired. I think the fear of becoming an embarrassing youtube or meme would break me. 1glitch0 fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Jan 22, 2020 |
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1glitch0 posted:Oh god... my life. I have at least 5 stories about tv shows I've watched. I wonder if that would count. Ah, you're gunning for the "good for you" response
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I had two decent stories (I do skeleton and I ski race) but ho boy do my life stories' quality take a serious drop from there. At least when it comes to stuff can talk about on TV.
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I wish I had been the nerdcore lady because causing a bunch of angry dorks to make a diss track about Trebeck because he made fun of their garbage would've been worth it.
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Iron Crowned posted:Ah, you're gunning for the "good for you" response It's probably my best gambit. I don't think I would impress Trebek. Although I did go to pro wrestling school when I was young so I'd probably lead with that, and it would probably be the only story I'd have to use. I told that to a couple friends who I had known for a few years and they were like, "Why would you not tell us that the first day we met!?" It is apparently the most interesting thing I've done in my life.
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That dude had Luke Atmey's hair with Florent L'Belle's suit.
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whatever it was was hideous. it hit me halfway during the episode it was bobcait goldthwait hosting double dare.
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I don't think I've ever seen an unemployed person on the show. Surely not every single person ever to be on Jeopardy has a job? Do you just make up something for your occupation like freelance aplaca duster?
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packetmantis posted:I don't think I've ever seen an unemployed person on the show. Surely not every single person ever to be on Jeopardy has a job? Do you just make up something for your occupation like freelance aplaca duster? They’ve had stay at home mom / dad.
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Duckman2008 posted:They’ve had stay at home mom / dad. I'm a stay at home cat dad
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One woman billed herself as "aspiring student."
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there've been retired people, students, etc. and i'm sure there have been people with no job, no school, no retirement. they don't really vet you beyond 'american citizen, can answer questions'. the one thing they nail down on, at least nowadays, is making sure your hometown is where you get your check. think they ran into some trouble with that a few years back and now require your current place of residence be your hometown. probably some dumb tax thing.
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abelwingnut posted:there've been retired people, students, etc. and i'm sure there have been people with no job, no school, no retirement. they don't really vet you beyond 'american citizen, can answer questions'. the one thing they nail down on, at least nowadays, is making sure your hometown is where you get your check. think they ran into some trouble with that a few years back and now require your current place of residence be your hometown. probably some dumb tax thing. Almost certainly. Though I swear I heard even a season or two ago someone still got the "Originally From..." introduction.
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Still can't get over that dude cosplaying as two separate Phoenix Wright villains
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Poque posted:Still can't get over that dude cosplaying as two separate Phoenix Wright villains My roommate really liked his outfit's color
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:What part of that FJ was supposed to be the clue? Danielle Steel is notoriously prolific so it was her age and the 20-22 hour days.
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Groovelord Neato posted:Danielle Steel is notoriously prolific so it was her age and the 20-22 hour days. I always thought she was one of those authors that was a pseudonym for like 20 different authors.
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VC Andrews's estate hired a ghostwriter after she died so the vast majority of "her" work wasn't done by her. Nora Roberts also publishes a stupid amount of books and publishes her mystery work under the pseudonym JD Robb. Why yes I only got that Final Jeopardy right because I worked as a receiving manager in a Barnes & Noble for nearly a decade. Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Jan 25, 2020 |
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packetmantis posted:I don't think I've ever seen an unemployed person on the show. Surely not every single person ever to be on Jeopardy has a job? Do you just make up something for your occupation like freelance aplaca duster? I mean James was technically unemployed.
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1glitch0 posted:I mean James was technically unemployed. 
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Testing is this week! Everyone ITT should take it!
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Gonna take it on Thursday. I think it would take a lot for me to even get to 30 but it's still fun to dream.
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Good luck everybody! Join the goon legion of J! vets!
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I've usually taken the middle-day test but historically I've gotten smoked, so I'm doing it tonight.
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I tried it once, did poorly because the time limit stressed me out, and now I'm too anxious to take it again.
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Good luck, everyone! I took the test for fun. There was always that hope/dream that one day I would score well enough to get an audition, and after I think four years of trying it finally happened. Anyway I'm a Jeopardy! Champion now, so if you're on the fence about doing it, I highly recommend.
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i'm going for the first test, on the five-year anniversary of making it to Chicago and thus the pool. i still remember that trip because I went out to dinner at Eataly the day after auditions. while waiting for my table I met some Wichita St fans who were VERY happy about their win in the NCAA Tournament that day (they were drawn against Kansas, who has long refused to play the Shockers in the regular season, and a classic Fred VanVleet performance meant that it was another early exit for KU), and when they learned I was a Mizzou grad and thus also hated Kansas we had some fun. later that night I found out that my dinner tab had been paid for and when I asked the server why, he said "that table over there told me to say 'because gently caress the Jayhawks'". didn't get on the show but at least I have a story.
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Took tonight's; would call it relatively easy from what I remember of other years. Guessing close to 40?
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:Took tonight's; would call it relatively easy from what I remember of other years. Guessing close to 40? yeah, I got at least 40. only ones I was stumped on were the Daphne du Maurier novel and the chemical symbol "Cu". not quite sure about the western border of Tunisia, put down Morocco as they're both part of the formerly French north African group.
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I got 41/50. Seemed about the same as normal for me. Can't believe I blanked on the world series question to close it out.  Oh well, maybe this'll get me back to my first in-person audition in almost a decade; I almost always hit around 40/50 on the online test every time I take it.
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I've been taking the online test for years and this was easily the easiest one I've gotten. I think I hit 40 / 50. Can't believe I blanked on taxidermy. My brain temporarily broke and all I was getting was Tupperware.
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41 or 42 I think. My best performance by about 3 or 4. Forgot Ibsen, went Orion instead of Sagitarrius, put loving Grey instead of E.L.James, cadmium instead of copper.
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Felt very easy. I hosed up Tunisia, and instead of E. L. James I came up with E. L. Green. Probably a couple others I'm not remembering now
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In my panic, I erased armadillo and put something else as Texas's state mammal. Because I thought "Wait, that's not a mammal." But of course it is. I'd do great on the show.
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https://jboard.tv/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5552 1 Leo Tolstoy 2 Centennial 3 Stephen Hawking 4 Sparta 5 Hajj 6 Thames 7 Valhalla 8 Standard 9 Lord Byron 10 San Jose 11 Ariana Grande 12 the Bulge 13 abacus 14 George Orwell 15 Frankfort 16 ear 17 armadillo 18 Emmanuel Macron 19 The Masked Singer 20 Henrik Ibsen 21 Libya 22 cause 23 Roald Dahl 24 Rutgers 25 Missouri 26 FLOTUS 27 Rebecca 28 Copper 29 Orange 30 Cuba 31 Genesis 32 Pennywise 33 potatoes 34 Anne Boleyn 35 E. L. James 36 taxidermy 37 eulogize 38 garter 39 Carl Jung 40 Salvador Dali 41 42 Aaron Burr 43 Arbor Day 44 Rio de Janeiro 45 Encyclopedia Britannica 46 Georges Bizet 47 Sagittarius 48 Labor 49 Macbeth 50 Los Angeles Dodgers 44 -- missed armadillo, Libya, Bizet, Sagittarius, Macbeth and Dali e: and Wicked KICK BAMA KICK fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Jan 29, 2020 |
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:https://jboard.tv/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5552 there's an error on that: 41 should be Wicked, as they likely confused Kristen Chenowith (the original Glinda) with Kristen Bell. Still has Howard's long-suffering wife in both of 'em. also I got 45. missed Sagittarius, Macbeth, Libya, Rebecca and Copper.
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