Going on Jeopardy

Going on Jeopardy is not that easy. If you happen to live near LA, testing takes place in Culver City throughout the year. There are online tests which are open periodically, and the “Brain Bus” travels to various cities. Basically you have to pass the on-line test or the Brain Bus pre-test in order to be invited for an in-person audition. At the in-person audition, you have to take a fifty question written test, then play a brief game of Jeopardy, complete with buzzers, and then participate in a personality interview. If you make it through all that, you’ll be put into an “active pool” of potential contestants for 18 months. If you ever do get onto the show after all that, you have to hope that the category gods favor your knowledge set, and you don’t freeze on the buzzers. On the whole, seeing as how we live in Bennington Vermont, writing a book might be an easier task.

Writing and publishing a book today in many ways is much easier that it has ever been, although the publishing and printing businesses are both in complete shambles.