I have taken the Jeopardy! online contestant tests for a number of years now, awaiting that one night a year where I get the chance to type one or two word answers into a Flash application as fast as I can, hoping to get enough right for the phone to ring or whatever. Every time, I walked away feeling kinda dumb and doubting my own trivia mastery. When I learned that they actually provided categories above the answers (you respond with a question on Jeopardy!, remember), I thought I did marginally better. This year, when I completed the test, I upgraded my self-assessment of my performance to ambivalent.<\/p>\n
Then I got the email.<\/p>\n
On June 14, I will venture to Kansas City for an actual audition for the program. If you\u2019ve read up on it, you\u2019ll know that this involves another test, a personality interview, and maybe a mock Jeopardy! game. If I pass muster, I get thrown into the smaller pool of people who might get the chance to play on the program.<\/p>\n
So I have a little over a month to prepare. I did, briefly, think about \u201cpreparing,\u201d as though some program of trivia immersion would somehow make me a better contestant or a more competitive player. However, there\u2019s just as much chance, I think, that I\u2019d stress myself and not enjoy the coming month, so I think I\u2019ll take it in my normal stride: I\u2019ll alter my reading program slightly to include brushing up on some subjects, but I\u2019m not going to study much but maybe the presidents. And hope my native trivia intelligence is enough to carry me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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