# Online Jeopardy Auditions return **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500 "2008-01-14T18:12:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/1 "2008-01-14T18:12:08Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/2 "2008-01-14T18:25:09Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/3 "2008-01-14T19:45:09Z")
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: ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/4 "2008-01-14T19:58:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/5 "2008-01-14T23:32:49Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] 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! [/QUOTE] Scared of your skills? Remember who they tried to discourage by calling him up dead last, even after the dog… ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/6 "2008-01-14T23:37:16Z")
[QUOTE=picunurse] 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: [/QUOTE] Have someone else type in your answers this time. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/7 "2008-01-15T00:09:52Z")
Link? ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/8 "2008-01-15T00:13:51Z")
Try this one: [http://www.sonypictures.com/tv/shows/jeopardy/onlinetests/national2008/flash\_index.php?hs308=email](http://www.sonypictures.com/tv/shows/jeopardy/onlinetests/national2008/flash_index.php?hs308=email) ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/9 "2008-01-15T00:15:58Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/10 "2008-01-15T01:32:57Z")
[QUOTE=ShibbOleth] Have someone else type in your answers this time. [/QUOTE] Well, there’s my husband, wh is dyslexic, and our three cats. Out of the five of us, I think [Max](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/picunurse/kitties%20from%20all%20over/MaxxII1.jpg) may be the fastest typist. Of course, his spelling is beyond any help. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/11 "2008-01-15T05:00:30Z")
Great. There’s a typing test? LOL. I signed up here too, with encouragement from the husbear. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/12 "2008-01-15T07:19:37Z")
[QUOTE=supervenusfreak] Great. There’s a typing test? LOL. I signed up here too, with encouragement from the husbear. 😃 [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/13 "2008-01-15T08:00:57Z")
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!]_ ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/14 "2008-01-15T14:20:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/15 "2008-01-15T14:48:33Z")
… 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. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/16 "2008-01-15T14:53:26Z")
[QUOTE=DrFidelius] Scared of your skills? Remember who they tried to discourage by calling him up dead last, even after the dog… [/QUOTE] 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. [QUOTE=SenorBeef] 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? [/QUOTE] Yes. I’m going to spend more time working on that in case I do get called in again. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/17 "2008-01-15T16:35:23Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/18 "2008-01-15T20:30:05Z")
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 … ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/19 "2008-01-15T22:21:36Z")
Well, I’m registering! And I’m keeping an eye out for college auditions. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500/20 "2008-01-15T22:27:45Z")
[QUOTE=Sean Factotum] 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 … [/QUOTE] Even though you excluded books written by previous contestants, I have to plug [Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy!](http://www.amazon.com/Prisoner-Trebekistan-Jeopardy-Bob-Harris/dp/0307339564) 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!” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-jeopardy-auditions-return/433500.md?page=2)