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

Yes, several.

jmc you asshole! i tried out for jeopardy like ten years ago, at the mall of america -- whole crazy story there -- and got in, but never got "the call"

congratulations, this is awesome!

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

xp

hahah

Next time I see you, if you have a new fur coat and a pimp hat, I'll know what happened.

THIS... IS.... AMAZING!

very cool

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

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.

wanted to hit trebek in the mouth so hard that his mustache grew back for that

seriously. I bet his son's Mexican restaurant sucks, too

i took the test online tonight kind of on a whim, i know i got at least half of them right, but i think 35 out of 50 is the cutoff so idk abt that. im gonna forgot about this for a few months then watch a grip of episodes on netflix again and say "hey maybe i should take the jeopardy test."

how long does the test take?

sorry, i'm not sure why i asked that. what is about 50 questions x about 5-10 seconds each?

correct. you have control of the board.

(it may have been 15 seconds per question, i just went into a fugue state and tried pretyping "what is" before i read each clue)

i'm about 4 beers in, have been high since the obama administration. it's time for me to take the test

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!