JAYMC on Jeopardy! TODAY! (SPOILERS Y'ALL)

question: did you bring any magic feathers with you or mementos so you know that when everyone's watching you on jeopardy, you have that special stolen spoon from ihop on your pocket or whatever?

congrats dude! i hope to join those ranks someday

oh this is so awesome! Yay jaymc! I'm sure you made ilx lolproud.

question: what did you wear? how did you choose your outfit(s)?

I was somewhat lacking in the nice-clothes-to-wear-on-national-television department, so I went to Banana Republic and bought a few things. I showed up in a slate gray shirt and black tie (no jacket).

question: did you bring any magic feathers with you or mementos so you know that when everyone's watching you on jeopardy, you have that special stolen spoon from ihop on your pocket or whatever?

Nah. I did wear nice underwear, though.

rootin' for you, jaymc (tho i haven't watched jeopardy in years).

Hey, neither had I! It's on at 3:30 in the afternoon here.

wagered 12 grand in Final Jeopardy on Steve Shasta's Soc Sec number

xp

― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, March 19, 2010 1:41 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark

lmbo

awesome dude! can't wait til this shows up on my dvr. where's that "most famous alumni of your high school" thread so I can brag about being in the same classes as a quiz show supastah?

hey, this is sort of awesome. i will add this to my calendar.

were you able to get in any surreptitious shout outs?

"What is masturbating in front of a baby?"

"What is an AOL beef?"

So cool! Congrats on making the show, I hope you won lots of $$.

Daily Double was gabbneb's shoe size

this is the coolest thing ever

lol morbs

I got a thrill when he wrapped his arm around my side.

Art Fleming, ya died too soon.

did Ken Jennings (?) have the same leadtime before air?

I dunno, it does seem awfully long, doesn't it?

is it weird that i know three people who have been on jeopardy now (two college jep)

well like you said, your taping was at the end of the season, so that's prolly why the lag is longer than usual

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DUDE.!

i wonder if trebek goes on 4-month peyote-fueled vision quests between tapings or something

"What is... the question, man?"

I thought he had been laying low for a while.

i heard he is a right winger

yeah, I just read on Gawker that he has GOP fundraisers at his house

Blame Canada

He's also donated to Chuck Hagel.

did you run him through the .xls before you visited the set?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU2w72KAkQQ

sajak's on the right too i think

yeah sajak is some kind of climate change denialist men's rights let's kill the arabs kind of dude

first, congrats JMC. this is totally totally awesome. we'll be watching out here in SF!

back in like '02 i awaited the call from Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? after making it all that way. the call never came. so i'll live vicariously through you on this one.

― andrew m., Friday, March 19, 2010 6:22 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

^^ me too! when i interviewed, they asked me about music and, for whatever reason, i was effusive that day about the velvet underground's third album. UH yeah, no callback.

damn, awesome. congrats! I've been trying for three years myself!
Anyway, you will be tivo'd.

Wow, this is fantastic. Start the countdown now...

congrats JAYMC! I applaud your good fortune & at the same time can't help but be a little jealous b/c I came very very close to being on lolcollege jeopardy when I was in lolcollege.

Yeah, it's tricky. You have to wait until these lights around the game board light up before you can buzz in, and if you buzz in beforehand, you're locked out for a split second. Truth be told, I mostly ignored the lights and just buzzed in a beat after Alex finished the clue.

While in the tryout process, I got to the point of competing using the buzzers & found them totally frustrating. I tend to be very impulsive when I am nervous & kept constantly getting locked out. I now understand (& sympathize with) the contestants who are repeatedly clicking the buzzer, to no avail. They clicked in too early & got locked out!

july 26: tv party tonight

i had no idea so many ILXors had Jeopardic ambitions!

It makes sense, though. As internet discussion forums go, there seems to be a high percentage of smrt ppl on ILX.

Yes, I'm sure lots of people here would do quite well on the show.

well sure, but i'm reasonably smart and i have no ambition to be on jeopardy. (no jokes about my intelligence pls). just sayin that not every smart person wants to be on a quiz show.

I don't watch the show religiously, tho I have at various points in the past. I often wondered why there weren't more academics on the show, profs & such, who would likely have a fairly competitive edge w/ a good base of general knowledge. Is it just that many academics don't want sully their integrity by appearing on a game show (pretty silly imo) or are they not allowed to compete b/c they would have too much of an edge?

either that or they don't want the pressure/are afraid that they'll muff it under pressure? people have all kinds of reasons, i would guess.

They're definitely allowed to compete. One of the other contestants there on taping day (six episodes were taped on the day I was there) was an English professor.

so you were in six or fewer episodes dot xls

And yeah, I think you're right, Amanda. Weirdly, it's only in retrospect that I realize what a crazy thing it was to do. A co-worker who's really smart and well-read said to me yesterday, "I could never do that. You must have a lot of courage."

xp Or I'm the current champion and will have to fly back to tape more episodes later.

this is craaaazy, wtg jaymc, i now know two ppl from chicago that have been on jeopardy within the last year O_O

I think a lot of us would throw up right before the taping.

omg john this rules! congratulations!

hey, congrats. my sister was on Millionaire but lost on the 9th or 10th ? so she only got 5 grand.

i'm gonna take the teen practice test

https://www.jeopardy.com/be-on-j/practice-tests

ANSWER:

B
J

What is B on J?

i got 13 of 30 on the practice test. so basically, if i try harder and focus more, i got this.

wait, i have to make a MYJEOPARDY! account in order to do this for real? uuuuuugh...i can't do this

i got 13 of 30 on the practice test.

ended up taking the adult one. i think i will go ahead and do the teen and college ones too though! wild sunday

16/30 on the practice test without cheating (20/30 with quick googling)

patrick's record-setting low score tonight was a very rough watch

oops meant to put this on the general jeopardy thread but oh well!