However, there are books by former contestants that I found helpful in preparing me for my appearance. For example, Prisoner of Trebekistan by former contestant Bob Harris was an amusing and helpful read. Truly, the best way to prep is to watch the show and study past games.
A site called J! Groups of contestants are gathered into a room and issued a written test with different questions from the online test. These are graded on the spot again, your score is never revealed to you. First, read as much J-Archive as you can.
Play through old games and read new stuff. The contestant coordinators take the completed response sheets and grade them. According to past contestants, if you're invited to the show after the audition period, you're also responsible for all travel expenses including air far, hotel, as well as meals.
You can get an unaffiliated study guide from Jstudyguide. Helpful Links: How do you study for Jeopardy? Or rather, there are lots of answers. I like to read. As I mentioned above, I studied up on some of the most frequently-recurring Jeopardy! I played quiz bowl in college, which is good practice for pulling random things you haven't thought about since high school from deep in the recesses of your brain at a moment's notice. I had a lot more game-day practice and buzzer rehearsal time than most of my competitors, which gave me an unfair leg up that had nothing to do with knowledge.
I apparently have a pretty good memory for things I'm interested in—like everybody else I guess, but maybe I'm just interested in more subjects than is normal. Mostly, it comes down to curiosity.
I think I'm a pretty inquisitive person about the world around me, so as a result I find myself learning new stuff no matter what I'm doing: watching an old movie on TV or doing a crossword puzzle or reading the back of a cereal box. There's information all around us, if we'd only pay attention to it.
It's a state of mind more than anything else. The longest-remembered thing about my Jeopardy! Here's the scoop: at the time I buzzed, I felt good about my answer. By the time Alex called on me, though, I had realized that there was no way Jeopardy! During the next ad break, Al, the Minnesota pastor on the end who says, "What is a rake?
Many people who ask me about this clue think that I was jobbed. I think Alex was right to rule against me, for one reason: the gardening tool is a "hoe," while the immoral person and is he or she necessarily a pleasure seeker? It sure smells like a set-up. Many people have been kind enough to tell me how easy they thought my final question was. And it's true, this was the kind of question that many people, millions of people, would know instantly. I lost on the humanizingly easy, "Can you believe he doesn't know this one?
But quite honestly, I could have thought about this question all day and not come up with the right answer. Here's how they asked it: "Most of this firm's 70, seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year. I assumed the answer would have something to do with summer or the holiday season.
That's what I get for always doing my own taxes, I guess. I also suspect that many of the people who gave me a hard time for missing this answer I lamely guessed "Who is FedEx? I've heard of that. That's not so hard. So the moral of the story is, if you're going to lose on Jeopardy! If your final answer is "Who was Herodotus? You want to watch 75 straight episodes of an eight-year-old game show, all featuring the same contestant?
The audition is about two and a half hours long — and no, Alex isn't there. Groups of contestants are gathered into a room and issued a written test with different questions from the online test. These are graded on the spot again, your score is never revealed to you. From what I understand, these are only issued to identify people who found a way to cheat on the online test somehow.
After the test, groups of three contestants play short mock games on camera. This gives the contestant coordinators a chance to see how you might appear on the show. They encourage you to speak loudly and clearly and to show a little personality and have fun.
They also give brief mock interviews like the ones Alex gives after the first commercial break — and no, Alex isn't there. The audition is less about testing your knowledge than seeing your personality. After that, unless you cheated on the test, you can pretty much consider yourself part of the contestant pool for the next 18 months. In my experience, I auditioned in June of and got the call to be on the show eight months later. Unfortunately, they don't pay for travel expenses except for returning champions, though they do offer a corporate discount at a local hotel it was the Doubletree when I went and offer a shuttle to the studio on tape day.
Lunch is provided in the commissary on tape day, and there are snacks in the green room, but other food and expenses are up to you. The production schedule of Jeopardy! Since each game is 22 minutes plus commercials, that's pretty easy to do. It means winners have to have stamina, though. After taping one episode, which takes about minutes, they only get a few minutes to change, touch up makeup, and get ready to go back out there and hopefully win some more.
And yeah, that does mean you have to bring multiple outfits to the studio with you.
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