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April 09, 2008
JEOPARDY!
Guess What Y'all!?!
I qualified to make it onto Jeopardy!
I never really thought of myself as that smart, just full of random knowledge whose use is only to interject awkward esoteric comments to make an otherwise dull party a little more on the edgy side.
But apparently they'll even let me on. Which is probably good news to the reader of this blog. Unless you can't read, in which case you have no chance of getting on the show.
Moving on, my acceptance into Jeopardy! is proof that you can go out and drink the night before, and still pull enough random knowledge out of your head to make it on the show. I was severely hungover too. It was just a mess. But somehow, I still was able to beat out all the other nerds.
How exactly does one train for Jeopardy? A good memory is a start, but is that enough? A desire to read is also probably a good asset. But what else? Access to knowledge is a given (by the way, all the other finalists in my heat were librarians or had some relation to books).
A desire to compile and mentally sort information and a talent at doing so is probably the key fundamental ability that enables one to be a good competitor. From then on, it's just about how much material you can get your hands on.
Maps, books, news sources, television and movies are just the start. Wikipedia will do the rest. Honestly a single person cannot view every single classic movie that is out there. Well, at least I can't. Sitting through all those crappy movies just does not sound like a good time. I'll take the cliff notes on Wikipedia, please.
That reminds me.
CITIZEN KANE WAS WAY TOO LONG. AND NOT WORTHY OF BEST MOVIE STATUS ON ANYONE'S LIST, UNLESS YOU WERE BORN BEFORE 1930.
I'll admit that it wasn't total crap. I just think it could have been shortened up a bit. The story is a good one though.
Posted by piep0058 at April 9, 2008 07:20 PM | Home
Comments
How did you qualify? Did you have to go somehwere to take the test or is there a test online?
I have always wondered where they got their contestants but just never looked into it.
Posted by: Treadmill at April 16, 2008 11:19 AM