Well, we all may get the chance to find out. I have an audition for the show on the evening of the 18th here in DC. I barely remember calling the show’s number back last winter.
Why TWL? Why not something like Jeopardy!? Hubris, I guess. I was watching it and felt absolutely certain that I could easily outdistance any of the contestants, so I called.
Even if it ain’t Jeopardy, I’m still out there to win one for Uncle Cecil and the War against Ignorance, eh?
Good luck! Can you call overseas for a Phone-a-Friend? If so, I’m your girl! Oh, wait, you have to like…know stuff, …right?
I fully expect to be mentioned in your little intro speech. If I’m not, there’ll be hell to pay.
Woo! That’s cool. You should definitely mention the SDMB, maybe something about how Cecil could kick that chick’s butt in the Smart-Ass department. 
I didn’t even know they were still making this show, but good luck!
Is it the real WL with that fiery red-headed dominatrix or the watered down daytime version with the guy who always looks like he has a vole stuffed down his trousers?
I thought they had a sign up there, “No pinkos need apply”
Good luck! I’m rootin’ for ya.
I got no idea, actually. They didn’t say. I figure if I pass the audition they’ll figure out which show I’m going to be on.
Further bulletins as events warrant.
Congrats! With you as a contestant I could finally quit slapping my forehead and screaming “How could he not know that?”
Rest assured, we will tune in to cheer you on.
That is so cool! I am completely envious!
I will definitely watch and cheer you on. Please keep us updated.
Congrats, Olent!
[sub]Sorry, I was doing a vanity search and came up with fiery redhead dominatrix… this isn’t what I thought it was.[/sub]
It has to be the watered down, syndicated version since NBC cancelled the prime time versikon with Anne Robinson.
Just wishing you luck tonite.
Please keep us updated.
See the other thread about the Weakest Link on this board for my advice 
I tried out last year. It’s not what you know, it’s how you come across. The guy in my group that we voted off was the guy that wound up on the show. Sadly I’m too lasy to find the link to that other thread so You got the capsulized version.
Good luck to you though!
Maybe when you go on, you could wear a Straight Dope t-shirt?
Thanks, y’all. Max, I saw Hastur’s thread yesterday (doing a little egosurfing, doncha know). I figure I got a good lock on the coming across bit, but we’ll just have to see.
[sub]wanders off, practicing “I will annihilate you all” in an evil rasp[/sub]
Molodets! Davai davai!
What, you didn’t want to go on Slaboe Zveno (the Russian version, with a Russian Robinson clone)?
I totally blew it. Didn’t get past the first-round written quiz. I know of three questions I missed: one I knew the answer to but couldn’t think of it and put something else down, one I jumped the gun before the question was completed, and one I didn’t know at all.
So - as a treat for all you in the audience at home, here’s your chance to do what you do best. This is the question I didn’t know.
Q: What European car company manufactures the Cabrio?
Me: Porsche.
One they gave us that I didn’t know was “What ‘M’ is the sediment moved by a glacier as it travels.”
I still don’t know that one.
Sorry to hear about that, Olentzero, but there’s always Wheel Of Fortune (they were just in town auditioning, but I had to work 
)
I’m pretty sure the glacier one would be moraine (memories of high school geology)…
and isn’t a Cabrio a Volkswagen?
Not that I want to be on The Weakest Link… If that lady made fun of me, I’d cry.
Wow, bummer, Olentzero. Yes, Cabrio is Volkswagen.
Aren’t Porsches and Volkswagens made by the same company? Or am I high at work again?