Who Wants To Be A Millionaire Try-Outs

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Ever do one?

How was it?

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Yes.

Not that hard.

Passed the test, failed to delight them in the personal interview – got the “thanks, you’re not in the pool” test. (As did the person I went with, who was also a successful Jeopardy! alum.)

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Yes, I did try out - after the faster finger phone thing, for the syndicated version with Meredith Viera.

The test was not super difficult - I’d say it was medium difficulty, if you’re a trivia buff. The toughest test I’ve ever taken was the one for Win Ben Stein’s Money. I think Millionaire was slightly easier than Jeopardy!, but I think it’s shorter (30 questions, IIRC).

If you pass they interview you with the staff at the test. You need to have a good story ready to go. After my interview with one guy, I met another a few minutes later - same deal, but I figured that was a good sign (or that the first interviewer thought I was borderline). I started to really get into the interview then. Both were less than 5 minutes.

I got a postcard, then a call, and did the show in September '04. Lots of fun. Good luck!

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Yeah I went about three months ago and tried out for both a movie week and general trivia. I passed both tests which was kind of uplifting, but I got the postcards a few weeks letter that said ‘thanks but no thanks’ unfortunately. There’s a longer version of the story on my MySpace page (check out my SDMB profile if you want to read it)

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I tried out for the college edition, whenever I was in college, I dunno, 2000 or 2001? I got through the door (the hardest part - you wouldn’t believe!) and past the quiz, and they took an interview, and told me they’d call or not call on a specific day between these specific hours. They didn’t. I missed the hotness quotient, I imagine. Wasted a whole day of a holiday weekend sitting with my parents in my dorm room.

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I tried out at the Naval Base in Norfolk when they had the tryouts there for active duty military (2002?). Pretty much the same tryout as above. I sat in an auditorium, watched a video featuring Regis, answered a battery of questions, and then found out I didn’t score high enough for the interview. But a friend of mine made it onto the air. And sat there the whole time during those special shows, never winning a Fastest Finger. I call him “Slow Hand” now.