From their email to me (and probably a whole lot of y’all)
TEST DATES & TIMES
EAST COAST
Tuesday, January 29th at 8PM EST
CENTRAL/MOUNTAIN
Wednesday, January 30th at 8PM CST/7PM MST
PACIFIC COAST (Including Alaska and Hawaii)
Thursday, January 31st at 8PM PST
Don’t forget to register ahead of the test you want to take.
I’m already signed up… I’ve been itching for this for quite a while, since I got called in for an audition in May 2006 and I got in the contestant pool, but they were too scared of my skills to let me on the show. Let me at 'em!
I did it last time, but I failed miserably, not because I didn’t know the answers, but because I couldn’t type fast enough. :rolleyes:
I’ll register for the Pacific one. I live in the east, but work nights, so what works out to 11 PM is just fine for me.
And I was all set to do that last round, too, but the freakin’ java applet they use wouldn’t load in my browser! :mad: I’ll use IE this time just to be certain, and I’ll have all the stuff I need installed actually installed.
Scared of your skills?
Remember who they tried to discourage by calling him up dead last, even after the dog…
Have someone else type in your answers this time.
Link?
Try this one:
http://www.sonypictures.com/tv/shows/jeopardy/onlinetests/national2008/flash_index.php?hs308=email
My husband registered today. Let’s hope he does better than the last time he auditioned a decade ago. 
Come on, Alex, Mama needs several new pairs of very nice shoes!
Well, there’s my husband, wh is dyslexic, and our three cats. Out of the five of us, I think Max may be the fastest typist. Of course, his spelling is beyond any help. 
Great. There’s a typing test? LOL. I signed up here too, with encouragement from the husbear. 
Not a typing test, but you only have so much time to type in your answers. I think I read it was like fifteen seconds.
ETA: That’s 15 seconds to read the question, think of the answer, and type it in.
Like Marley23, I took the test in 2006, passed it and the in-person audition to make the contestant pool, but never got called.
Maybe this is our year, Marley!
[I’m annoyed that – according to the registration options – San Francisco isn’t on their list of cities for 2nd-stage (in-person) auditions this time around. Pbbbpht!]
Does anyone find the prospect of coming up with 3 things about yourself that can be explained in 15 seconds, and are appropriate for a tv audience like that, difficult? There’s plenty interesting about me, and plenty of funny stories, but very few things that I’d make a good safe 15 second story out of. I’d be more worried about coming up with something than playing well.
Edit: Also, I think I only scored something like 34/50 last year, and was pretty dissapointed. There were a lot of literature questions, and I’m pretty bad about them.
… which is why I’ve begun raising ocelots and spent my spare time volunteering as a director for the Lesbian Shakespearian Company.
I figure there’s plenty of time if they call on me to buy a couple of spotty cats and meet some Dykes in Tights.
Well, we’ll show 'em this year. Did that guy get on the show, by the way? I was sure they were going to pick him.
Yes. I’m going to spend more time working on that in case I do get called in again.
I’m still ineligible (I took the test in March last year, I believe, and you have to wait a year), so I’m out on this one. I’m still waiting to be called as a contestant. How far into the season do they schedule contestants, anyway?
Anybody got any good reference material suggestions? Other than the books that have been written by previous contestants, the Bible, the complete works of Shakespeare …
Well, I’m registering!
And I’m keeping an eye out for college auditions.
Even though you excluded books written by previous contestants, I have to plug Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy! by Bob Harris. I read it last month, and it’s a great read–funny, insightful, and intelligent. He talks about his own life quite a bit in the course of discussing how he got on the show, how he became a five-time champ, the annual tournament, the Ultimate Tournament, and so on. Great stuff, and a fast read.
The only problem I had with it is that I can’t see the guy’s name without hearing a Japanese woman shouting, “Lip my stockings, Mister Bob Harris! Lip them!”
