How does one become a contestant on JEOPARDY!?
• Qualify for an “in-person” audition by either passing the Online Test or attending a Brain Bus event and passing the pre-test. • If you pass the online test and are invited to an “in-person” audition, you will then take another 50 question written test. Your application will be judged based on your in-person test score as well as your online test score. • Everyone at the audition will play a short version of JEOPARDY! – Three at a time, just like on the actual show, complete with buzzers! • Participate in a brief personality interview. The in-person audition test presents 50 clues from 50 different categories in the familiar JEOPARDY! format. Each clue is read aloud and simultaneously projected as text on a screen. The material covers a wide range of categories and response time is limited. Once the test is over, the contestant coordinators will lead the group through a brief game-playing tutorial, after which everyone will take turns playing a mock version of the game. At the end of
