# You’re on Jeopardy: what’s your interview anecdote? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** reality-or-game-show\ **Created:** [July 21, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-re-on-jeopardy-what-s-your-interview-anecdote/1021150 "2025-07-21T14:43:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-re-on-jeopardy-what-s-your-interview-anecdote/1021150/21 "2025-07-21T20:08:54Z")
“[Losers in other words](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcBc2XV1ijY)” I hear undead Alex Trebek say in my head to me describing any one of my hobbies or interests. Any cocktail anecdotes seem like boasting if they’re out of context and there is not context for Jeopardy contestant burbs. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-re-on-jeopardy-what-s-your-interview-anecdote/1021150/22 "2025-07-21T20:10:49Z")
I once met Geraldo Rivera at a baggage carousel in Kabul shortly after 9/11. He asked my Afghan female interpreter if she wanted a picture with him and she politely said yes. I still have it somewhere, it’s Geraldo and an Afghan woman who has a “who the hell is this?” look on her face. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-re-on-jeopardy-what-s-your-interview-anecdote/1021150/23 "2025-07-21T20:24:46Z")
When I was a kid of about 12, I watched Jeopardy with my invalid (but still sharp of mind) grandmother. Art Fleming was the host. Other than that, I got nuthin’. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-re-on-jeopardy-what-s-your-interview-anecdote/1021150/24 "2025-07-21T20:30:49Z")
I once found myself standing next Jose Feliciano while waiting for a connecting flight at JFK. I didn’t recognize him immediately because he wasn’t wearing his glasses, but I overheard him calling all his friends on his mobile to let them know he was back in town. I thought of introducing myself, but I didn’t want to disturb him. I doubt he even knew I was there. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-re-on-jeopardy-what-s-your-interview-anecdote/1021150/25 "2025-07-21T21:03:19Z")
I was an 6-time Frisbee Golf Tournament Champion of my local club, once scoring 8 birdies in a row on the back 9. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-re-on-jeopardy-what-s-your-interview-anecdote/1021150/26 "2025-07-21T21:27:00Z")
Spice Weasel and her husband met during freshman orientation in college. They’ve been together 23 years and have a five year old math genius son. Spice Weasel writes action romance and is a member of a writers group called the [silly name redacted.] We’re called International because we have two Canadians! I don’t know. I’m pretty boring. The parts of my life that aren’t boring are not suitable for a game show. (I hate these kinds of icebreakers. I never knew what to say.) ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-re-on-jeopardy-what-s-your-interview-anecdote/1021150/27 "2025-07-21T21:27:14Z")
Here’s an old thread that asked this same question. > [@You're On Jeopardy! - Now Regale Us with an Amusing Anecdote](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-on-jeopardy-now-regale-us-with-an-amusing-anecdote/395340): > > Dedicated to all of those in the Jeopardy! thread [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=405264) You know when Alex is doing the little interview segment with the contestants. You don’t have the time for any long drawn-out yarn. (My guess is that they get but 10 seconds.) Also there isn’t the need to provide your most inspiring tale of triumph -in fifty words or less- you have to save the good stuff for what to say as a returning champion. Since the contestants obviously decide ahead of time what they want to share, what would you g… ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-re-on-jeopardy-what-s-your-interview-anecdote/1021150/28 "2025-07-22T15:14:57Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > What you got? Ideally, we’d discuss something that leads into Warhammer 40,000, but that might be crossing a commercial line somewhere. I don’t want to waste my once-in-a-lifetime chance on America’s Greatest Quiz show to shill for Games Workshop. Maybe that would come up on a subsequent day if I because a multi-day champion. Instead, Ken could lead with asking about how I got to see Greg Kihn perform before he died. He told the audience that he was grateful to Weird Al Yankovic because by parodying Kihn’s song “Jeopardy” and including Kihn in the music video, Al made it possible for Kihn to meet famed television announcer Don Pardo in real life. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-re-on-jeopardy-what-s-your-interview-anecdote/1021150/29 "2025-07-22T15:27:51Z")
These are all true. I coached a junior high school chess team even though I’m terrible at chess. I spent a summer guiding rafts down a whitewater river in North Carolina. I won my school’s Young Authors contest in 1970-something and got to meet either Judy Blume or Beverly Cleary, someone who was big in children’s lit at the time. My grandmother had me and my cousin convinced that the two ghosts in her house were named Memphis and Chattanooga (and I didn’t realize until geography class in 5th grade that I was being played). ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-re-on-jeopardy-what-s-your-interview-anecdote/1021150/30 "2025-07-22T19:24:13Z")
I once played Rock Band for 24 straight hours as a fundraiser. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-re-on-jeopardy-what-s-your-interview-anecdote/1021150/31 "2025-07-22T19:41:05Z")
I guess he was wearing contacts. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-re-on-jeopardy-what-s-your-interview-anecdote/1021150.md?page=1)