[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
Hey DB, check out this article (scroll down near bottom of page 1)
I was going to post that the other day. Probably some better links out there with more detailed information on his findings.
DB did you ever get on? My sister got on recently.
[quote]byukid wrote:
DB did you ever get on? My sister got on recently.[/quote]
No. I did NOT get on. The live audition was ugly. It seemed like every category was “Iconoclasts within the Baroque Movement” or “19th century Romanian opera” or “Unpublished Sonatas from Chopin” or “Broadway”. I got fucking annihilated in about half the categories and dominated in the other half. I probably scored a 90% on the categories that didn’t have to do with the opera, classical music (which I actually have a decent understanding of) or Broadway. Like I know who conducted the London Philharmonic between 1985 and 1993.
But I’m going to sign up again. Apparently the tryouts are only once a year, but I promise all of the T-Nation that I will try out every fucking year until I make it, or I’ll die trying. And when I DO make it on the show I’m going to fucking eat all of my opponents alive and shit whatever parts of their bodies I can’t digest all over their living relatives.
But until then, I’d appreciate it if you don’t bring up my abysmal failure. I feel like I let down the whole T-Nation, or what’s left of it, by losing this year. I’ve certainly done irreparable damage to RAPEAXE!!! Enterprise’s stock value. I’m ashamed of myself for not knowing what the name of Salieri’s third opera was.
Well, it’s almost that time of year again. I’ve been studying up in my spare time and I’m ready to fucking redeem myself after my abysmal collapse under the pressure last year. I’ve sent multiple threats to that fucking cokehead, Trebek, so that should give me some extra insurance in case I perform poorly again. If he values his life he will make sure I get on.
And to the people who run this site, I will wear a T-Nation shirt and play under the name “www.Biotest.com: mention this Jeopardy episode for a 1% discount on your first $1000 purchase” if they give me a lifetime supply of the Anaconda Protocol or whatever the hell they call it. I think it would be reasonable to send me a full array of their nootropic products in order to increase my chances of getting on and endorsing their products.
Hell, is anyone else planning on signing up this year? I don’t think the registration period opens up for another month or so, but it’s never too early to start boning up on “East European Ballet Stars of the 1970’s”.
T-Nation should just fucking bombard that show with contestants. A free lifetime supply of RAPEAXE!!! products for anyone on here who can make it on to the show and post the air date so we can all revel in your glory. I certainly plan on doing so when/if I make it.
Since I discovered you’re a history teacher I’ve found a new faith in you.
You should do very well.
Well, I just got the email inviting me to sign up for the tryouts again and, needless to say, I signed up. I have my online test either January 7th, 8th or 9th. I won’t find out which day until later this week, but I will DOMINATE once again.
Two weeks ago the Final Jeopardy category was “Broadway Plays”. The clue was something like “This 1962 play’s first scene takes place at 2am in the living room of a college professor and his wife, who have invited a younger collegiate couple over for drinks.”
None of the contestants knew the answer. Can anyone here guess what the answer was?
What is…WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
^So have you picked out a casket for the poor fucker that was sitting next to you?
Few years ago I could have won a really nice Flying V on a phone in trivia question. It was on Much Music which is the Canadian version of MTV.
Anyway they had Dave Mustaine on the phone and he came up with this one to win the guitar.
Who inspired Dave to play the Flying V design?
My brain farted out one player, which wasn’t the correct answer, then I got the right one a half a second later. Roughly three heartbeats.
Go…
I tried out online earlier this week. I should know whether I made it to the next stage within a month or so.
This week has been a really strange week for Jeopardy! so far. Tonight, for the third time this week, no one got the Final Jeopardy! answer correct. I knew the answer for one of them, didn’t know it for another and tonight I knew it but I’m not sure if I would have come up with it in time to write anything down. Earlier in the week no one knew the answer even though all three contestants were pretty smart and each had about $13K in money to wager with, which is a REALLY high total for all three contestants to get. There were barely any wrong answers the whole game.
The category tonight was legal terms and the question was “This term from Old French means ‘to speak the truth’”.
The answer was “verdict”. Incidentally, there was a tie for first place and two of the three contestants are returning for tomorrow night’s episode. Neither of them knew it. I’ve always felt that when you go into Final Jeopardy! in second or third place you should just wager everything you’ve got no matter what because it’s so rare to see the person in the lead get the question wrong and still win, but it happened twice this week.
I’ve been crushing Jeopardy (from my living room) lately. I seem to go in streaks. Some shows its like I can’t get an answer right, others I feel like I’m running the table.
Oh and are you sure that was the answer? In law school they told us Voire Dire was derived from the old french “to speak the truth,” which is when you ask the jury about their biases before they get empaneled.
I just googled this:
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
I’ve been crushing Jeopardy (from my living room) lately. I seem to go in streaks. Some shows its like I can’t get an answer right, others I feel like I’m running the table.
Oh and are you sure that was the answer? In law school they told us Voire Dire was derived from the old french “to speak the truth,” which is when you ask the jury about their biases before they get empaneled.
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Voire dire was the term that the answer was derived from. I can’t remember exactly how the question was worded but it was worded so that the contestants knew that the term Trebek was looking for was not the Old French term but the term derived from it. One of the contestants actually wrote down voire dire but she was wrong. She still made it to tomorrow’s show since she finished tied with another guy who came up with nothing. The dipshit who lost wrote down “role call”. She didn’t even write down “roll” properly.
God I loved the episode. I didn’t even have to watch the video before I started laughing. The categories were genius.
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
God I loved the episode. I didn’t even have to watch the video before I started laughing. The categories were genius. [/quote]
LOL! Exactly!
It would be cool if DBCoop got on the show and the categories were:
“The Works of Edward Albee”
“Broadway 1962”
“Stage to Film Greats of '66”
“Films About Professors and their Wives”
“Taylor/Burton Collaborations”
“Academy Award Nomination Categories '66”
lol
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
God I loved the episode. I didn’t even have to watch the video before I started laughing. The categories were genius. [/quote]
LOL! Exactly!
It would be cool if DBCoop got on the show and the categories were:
“The Works of Edward Albee”
“Broadway 1962”
“Stage to Film Greats of '66”
“Films About Professors and their Wives”
“Taylor/Burton Collaborations”
“Academy Award Nomination Categories '66”
lol
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You forgot dwarf pudding. LOL!
I used to work with a lady who was on Jeopardy. She lost to Ken Jennings though lol.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
What is…WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?[/quote]
I saw that episode and was like, “Y’all are dum!”
I have a friend that was on 3 times (won twice)…he said it was the most painful thing ever and that he hasn’t watched Jeopardy since. They film like a week’s worth of shows at once, so my friend played 3 games in one day.
You could see that dude Ajosh…Ashok…or whatever, who won 3 games last week looked like he was just spaced out in the final game he lost. She Say, Sen Jr. and I were all pretty confidend it was his third game in one day and he just wanted to go the hell home.
[quote]sen say wrote:
I have a friend that was on 3 times (won twice)…he said it was the most painful thing ever and that he hasn’t watched Jeopardy since. They film like a week’s worth of shows at once, so my friend played 3 games in one day.
You could see that dude Ajosh…Ashok…or whatever, who won 3 games last week looked like he was just spaced out in the final game he lost. She Say, Sen Jr. and I were all pretty confidend it was his third game in one day and he just wanted to go the hell home.[/quote]
He probably did too much coke with Trebek the night before the taping. I saw that same guy. Did you watch any of the episodes last week? I can’t remember if he was on last week or the previous one (I think he might have won on Thursday and Friday and then lost the following Monday)?
I always tell people that WHEN I get on if I’m not in first place by Final Jeopardy! I’m going to wager everything I’ve got no matter what the final category is since it’s pretty rare to see anyone win when getting the question wrong anyways, so you may as well go all-in and try to crush whoever gets the answer wrong if you get it right.
Well, last week four times NO ONE got the Final Jeopardy! answer correct. I was shocked and now it’s made me rethink my whole strategy.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
Well, last week four times NO ONE got the Final Jeopardy! answer correct. I was shocked and now it’s made me rethink my whole strategy.[/quote]
Saw them all, but those were some unusual final jeopardies. We got ‘verdict’, but it was only through collaboration.
And stop that crazy talk about rethinking your whole strategy. You get out there and you win big little fellah!