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PT6A posted:Is the Spanish Civil War considered particularly obscure in the US? I keep assuming it's common knowledge, but no one seems to have heard of it (even Jeopardy contestants!) Chevy Chase has.
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PT6A posted:Is the Spanish Civil War considered particularly obscure in the US? I keep assuming it's common knowledge, but no one seems to have heard of it (even Jeopardy contestants!)
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Jan 11, 2018 04:55
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The kind of people who are on Jeopardy know about, like, Hemingway and Guernica, but we don't study the Spanish Civil War in school, so not so much about causes and results.
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Jan 11, 2018 05:04
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Jan 12, 2018 01:30
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Anne Whateley posted:The kind of people who are on Jeopardy know about, like, Hemingway and Guernica, but we don't study the Spanish Civil War in school, so not so much about causes and results. Yeah but a Spanish-sounding name and the word "republican" in the clue kind of narrows it down so that even a passing knowledge that it even happened should have gotten them to the answer.
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Jan 12, 2018 02:07
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Contestants have been pretty bad lately imo.
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I agree, I was saying to my husband that for the last couple weeks it seems like it's usually been more of a contest of who's been the least dumb rather than the smartest.
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Jan 12, 2018 15:39
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Come on, who doesn't know the name of Neptune's largest moon? It orbits backwards and everything. For the Jack White clue, supposedly it's harder for the contestants to see the monitor that has video clues than it is for the audience at home to see them. She didn't even know there was a picture until after she answered.
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Jan 12, 2018 19:11
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Given how lame some answers have been, it seems this year's contestants hold to the notion "they have memorized a ton of stuff, but don't actually KNOW much".
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Jan 13, 2018 01:33
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I can't believe I guessed the right FJ answer with African Countries as the category.
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WampaLord posted:I can't believe I guessed the right FJ answer with African Countries as the category. If only this were a live show, we could've seen if today's "shithole rule" applied here.
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Jan 13, 2018 03:51
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Sir Lemming posted:If only this were a live show, we could've seen if today's "shithole rule" applied here. I notice they work in references to holidays in episodes that air right before or after: maybe they could try something different and predict when Trump will do something despicable?
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business hammocks posted:I notice they work in references to holidays in episodes that air right before or after: maybe they could try something different and predict when Trump will do something despicable? Trump's Twitter: A category based on what he tweeted the morning of taping. Daily double reserved for a tweet when everyone's in the studio.
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business hammocks posted:I notice they work in references to holidays in episodes that air right before or after: maybe they could try something different and predict when Trump will do something despicable? Taping delay is too great, holidays are predictable months or years in advance while despicable Trump acts are not (OK, predicting that he'll do something despicable is a pretty safe bet, but you can't get specific enough to riff on it). PT6A posted:Is the Spanish Civil War considered particularly obscure in the US? I keep assuming it's common knowledge, but no one seems to have heard of it (even Jeopardy contestants!) I think I learned that the Spanish Civil War happened from a comic book in high school, so naturally I will remember it to my dying day.
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Well, IMO they've officially "jumped the shark" on yesterday's show with that "young jerk" show tie-in. I just spun the PVR through the entire thing. My wish for 2018 is for the show to bring back some actual intelligent contestants instead of folks who appear to have "graduated" from some Jeopardy crash-course institute. aside: I'm starting to suspect that there must be such things. There are/were SAT mills in the USA, so Jeopardy mills must also exist, correct? Because there are some really lame contestants lately that seem to have a bunch of stuff memorized, but who don't actually seem to KNOW much of anything.
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sunnyboy posted:Well, IMO they've officially "jumped the shark" on yesterday's show with that "young jerk" show tie-in. I just spun the PVR through the entire thing. Watch what you say https://twitter.com/DadofTwins02/status/930688290159824898
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wa27 posted:Watch what you say Never forget the words of GhostStalker: Jeopardy alumni roll deep.
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I've already forgotten who Lisa was or why people had a problem with her
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banned from Starbucks posted:I've already forgotten who Lisa was or why people had a problem with her She was the contestant last November's Tournament of Champions who got incredibly frustrated with her Double Jeopardy performance (she went into Final with $2,000, like $13,000 behind the other two guys), made it clear visibly that she was pissed off, and prompted three pages of discussion here of people saying "lol she was having a panic attack."
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Lisa was being a crybaby. Plenty of contestants lose horribly without acting anywhere near that upset about it. Come at me Jeopardy nerds. Some Pinko Commie fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Jan 16, 2018 |
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biracial bear for uncut posted:I said that Lisa was being a crybaby, not that she was having a panic attack. lol 
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Jan 16, 2018 20:56
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Jeopardy! Contestant Audition in Vancouver on xxxxx at 2pm Congratulations! You have been selected for a follow-up appointment at an upcoming Jeopardy! contestant search for the Vancouver area, exclusively for those who successfully passed the online test. 
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Jan 16, 2018 22:49
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I guess I need to learn what the American civil war was all about and also the names of your millions of colleges.
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HookShot posted:I guess I need to learn what the American civil war was all about and also the names of your millions of colleges. [ein cooler typ enters thread, out of breath] it was about states' rights
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HookShot posted:I guess I need to learn what the American civil war was all about and also the names of your millions of colleges. Don't forget to bone up on rivers, they loving love rivers.
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Jan 16, 2018 22:58
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And popes, and sports teams and books of the Bible and
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Soothing Vapors posted:[ein cooler typ enters thread, out of breath] it was about states' rights WampaLord posted:Don't forget to bone up on rivers, they loving love rivers. Geography and history are literally the only two things I'm covered on. haveblue posted:And popes, and sports teams and books of the Bible and
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Congrats! The audition process is a lot of fun, I hope you get to meet Maggie. Good news is that you probably know stuff about Canada, thus guaranteeing that Alex will love you.
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Thanks!! I'm actually super excited, I never really imagined that I would actually get an audition, especially since IIRC the test was so long ago, I just kind of chalked it up to "ok yeah maybe next year... again". And yes, Canada is basically one of the few things I know anything about. Wikipedia is about to be my best friend for the next month.
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I honestly wouldn't go too crazy studying for your audition. You already passed one test, the one at the audition is just to make sure you didn't cheat. Focus more on speaking up, buzzing, and being the most outgoing, interesting version of yourself. If you do get The Call go nuts and hit the books.
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Practice buzzing with a Bic pen. Guaranteed to intimidate people.
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zakharov posted:I honestly wouldn't go too crazy studying for your audition. You already passed one test, the one at the audition is just to make sure you didn't cheat. Focus more on speaking up, buzzing, and being the most outgoing, interesting version of yourself.
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Anne Whateley posted:Imo the in-person written test is significantly harder than the online test and the show itself. Sorry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It's definitely harder than the show, it's specifically the most difficult material. I found it about as difficult as the online test. YMMV.
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Anne Whateley posted:Imo the in-person written test is significantly harder than the online test and the show itself. Sorry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ zakharov posted:It's definitely harder than the show, it's specifically the most difficult material. I found it about as difficult as the online test. YMMV. I didn't notice any difference in difficulty between the two tests. But yeah, zakharov's advice for practicing the buzzer and feeling comfortable on camera is on point. Good luck to you, and I also hope you meet Maggie. Glenn and Corina are cool too.
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Cool, thanks for the advice, guys! My score for this year's online test was higher than any of the others I've ever taken by around 6-7 right answers, so I hope I don't totally bomb the audition one  I'll be ok with being comfortable on camera; I was on my high school's Reach for the Top team, which is basically Canadian high school Jeopardy (but in team format) so I've done that part of it before, even if it was like 10 years ago.
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Do they send all the audition invites at the same time? I thought I did really well on the last online test.
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They sometimes send a second round of they have open spots. There's random selection also, not everyone who does well gets an invite.
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zakharov posted:They sometimes send a second round of they have open spots. There's random selection also, not everyone who does well gets an invite. This. They had to reschedule my original audition (on the same day, just earlier) because I needed to get back to them whether or not my professor would let me miss class for it (of course he did when he found out what it was for). If slots open up, they'll let you know. Also, Jeopardy contestant get well video for Trebek (that I forgot to make a picture for, dammit!) apparently was sent to Maggie the first day that he was back in the office after surgery. They posted it on their Facebook too, and the response from Alex was pretty good.
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A bit off the current subject, but I came across this and wanted to say that one of the positive things about Jeopardy fans is the homebrew crowd who put together not just their own games as well as the systems for running games as well:
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