Getting on Jeopardy is No Trivial Matter

Associated content quizical author Jennifer Cruz outlines How To Get On Jeopardy. In her excellent article she lists the requirements of appearing on the game show Jeopardy. 



Many Stay-Home-Moms are the programs most enthussiastic fans and it is easy to see why. Jeopardy is a program that can be watched in segments and still be satisfied with the results. That is, you can take care of what needs to be done immediately while watching the show; the sibling dispute can broken-up and the bruised knee band-aided and when you return the show still makes sense.

Before we link to How To get On Jeopardy there is something you should know about the audition process: 30,250 people compete every year be one of the 400 contestants. But there are other outlets for trivia fans, writing for one of the ever-growing number of websites devoted to the collection of knowledge that was in the past considered just suitable for family-night games of Trivial Pursuit, which did become somewhat of a competitive "sport " for a time.

Ken Jennings won 74 consecutive games and $2,500,000 in 2004 to become the all-time champion of television's Jeopardy. He has just had his book published, Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs. Ken Jennings is also an historian of trivia and the story of how he became a Jeopardy celebrity is intertwined with his chronlogy of trivia.

Robert Ripley, believe it or not, was the first trivia buff to make use of a growing newspaper industry that was always on the lookout for unusual stories to amaze and shock readers, and sell newspapers that came in morning, afternoon, evening and Five-Star-Final Editions.