Talk:Jeopardy! audition process

Would someone do me the favor of auditing this article for anything where a citation might be needed and {{t1|fact}} tagging it? Robert K S 11:02, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

:Citations should be added as liberally as possible so that every statement can be verified as not being original research. Although the recent addition of {{tl|fact}}s are valid, I would also like to see references for the Art Fleming section as well. I will not volunteer to find references, though; that's done better by someone who is much more familiar with the show than I am.

:I'd also like to comment on the recently closed AfD which happened while I was away. If I was !voting, I would have said week keep or merge. I can see how the article reads like a how-to even after Robert's well-intended edits (a contestant goes through this, then this, then this, etc.). I have no idea how to convert how-to prose into encyclopedic prose, and that's possibly why how-tos are included in WP:NOT. If a how-to guide answers the question "How does a contestant get on Jeopardy!?", this article may answer some of that, meaning this article could be a how-to. But a phrase like "20 auditioners are reduced to 10 this way" does not sound like a how-to to me. Most of the non-how-to info is relevant enough to be in the main article, and would have been easy to merge if the main article was not so large.

:As for message board posts as references, regardless of the message board contributors' credentials, they really should be avoided for verifiability reasons. For example, I would learn about television ratings from [http://www.pifeedback.com/ this board], but I would never dare use those postings as references in an article. TLK^'in 05:49, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Whenever I spot a reference dealing with the Jeopardy! audition process, I'm just going to add it to this list, and others are welcome to add as well. Robert K S (talk) 22:12, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

• {{ cite news | last=Justin | first=Neal | title='Jeopardy!' tryout proves a humbling, B-minus experience | publisher=vcstar.com | newspaper=Star Tribune | location=Minneapolis | url=http://www.vcstar.com/news/2008/apr/06/jeopardy-tryout-proves-a-humbling-b-minus/ | date=2008-04-06 | accessdate=2011-03-04 | quote=Of the more than 225,000 people who try out for 'Jeopardy!' each year, only 400 make it on the show. }}
• {{cite news | last=Ganster | first=Kathleen | title=A newsmaker you should know: O'Hara student on 'Jeopardy' teen tournament | url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11041/1124169-54.stm | date=2011-02-10 | accessdate=2011-03-05 | newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | quote=[Steven Ho] logged on to 'Jeopardy's' website again, and auditions were open. He completed the online application, including a round of testing, made the first round of cuts. He was asked to come to Philadelphia for a live audition. Steven and his parents had to pay their own expenses for this trip. ... During that round of eliminations, Steven played mock games with other finalists. At the end of the process -- in July -- he was told that he would hear in August if he'd been chosen for the tournament. }}
• {{ cite news | last=Barnes | first=Jeff | title=Del Cerro Resident To Compete In Jeopardy! Teen Tournament | url=http://www.missiontimescourier.com/article/Community_News/Local_News/Del_Cerro_Resident_To_Compete_In_Jeopardy_Teen_Tournament/29008 | date=2010-12-10 | accessdate=2011-03-05 | location=San Diego | newspaper=Mission Times Courier | quote=Each year, thousands of teenagers take an online test in hopes of being one of about 300 who will get to audition in person. From there, 15 contestants are selected. }}
• Here's a [http://www.nwtntoday.com/news.php?viewStory=4323 November 30, 2007] press release Jeopardy! put out boasting that their online test had helped bring more women contestants to the show. (Original archived [http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20081009143951/http://www.jeopardy.com/announcement_20071129_femalecontestants.php here].)
• [http://www.pisspoor.com/jepteen.html Teen Tournament audition] first-hand account on Karl Coryat's website
• {{cite news | last=Bockelman | first=Andy | title=Andy Bockelman: The anxious moments of my ‘Jeopardy’ tryout | date=2011-06-15 | accessdate=2011-06-20 | location=Craig, Colorado | newspaper=Craig Daily Press | url=http://www.craigdailypress.com/news/2011/jun/15/andy-bockelman-anxious-moments-my-jeopardy-tryout/ | quote=As part of the “Jeopardy!” audition, representatives from the show make a point of telling all the hopefuls that the next stage, depending on how well their tryout was, is for them to be entered into a contestant pool for the next 18 months. The first wave of contestants, of which they cycle through about 400 during the year, will be contacted in July, with the first episodes of the show’s new season taping in August. }}
• {{cite news | last=Wright | first=Zeke | title=How’d she do? Watch Elaine Garrett on Jeopardy Friday | date=2001-06-22 | location=Bennington, Vermont | newspaper=Bennington Banner | url=http://www.benningtonbanner.com/ci_18333935 | quote=An avid viewer of Jeopardy! for years, Garrett took the online test more than a year ago and traveled to New York for a live audition in April 2010. She was among a crowd of 50 at that stage of the process, and said that she was told she would be in the contestant pool for 18 months.}}
• {{ cite news | last=Yusko | first=Dennis | title=Galway girl on “Jeopardy” | location=Albany, New York | date=2011-07-06 | newspaper=Times Union | url=http://blog.timesunion.com/saratogaseen/galway-girl-on-jeopardy/9309/ | quote=Two years ago, a commercial for 'Kids Jeopardy' came on the TV, and her parents joked that she should apply to be on it. She did. Brooke Martin answered 30 questions in an online test in August 2009. She was then invited to an audition in Boston. She took another written test in the spring of 2010, and attended another audition, this time in New York City. Of 10,000 kids who took the tests, about 300 were invited to auditions. Only 15 kids were selected for five shows.}}
• {{ cite news | last=Del Ciello | first=Deanna | date=2011-07-07 | title=Answer: He Lives in Bridgewater and Was on 'Jeopardy.' Question: Who is James Ma? | url=http://bridgewater.patch.com/articles/question-he-lives-in-bridgewater-and-was-on-jeopardy-answer-who-is-james-ma | newspaper=Bridgewater Patch | quote=In order to become a contestant on the show, those who audition must qualify for an in-person interview by passing the online test or attending an authorized contestant event and passing a test. The in-person audition consists of taking a 50-question written test, playing a short version of "Jeopardy" and participating in a personality interview. For those who do well in all aspects, they are put in an active file for 18 months, which does not guarantee appearance on the show. }}
• {{ cite news | last=Panteldis | first=Michael | title=Queens teen to appear on Jeopardy! | url=http://www.queenscourier.com/articles/2011/06/30/news/top_stories/doc4e0b7997e6c53240937954.txt | location=Queens, New York | newspaper=The Queens Courier | date=2011-06-30 | quote=The first step he took in applying for the show was passing a 30-question, online test. The youths who pass are then auditioned in person. The auditions consist of another written test, a computerized round of Jeopardy, in order for producers to audit how the teens play the game and brief face-to-face interview. Francis was eventually chosen, along with 14 other contestants, from a group of approximately 200 participants. }}
• {{ cite news | last=Bach | first=Jim | title=A Trivia Titan: University alumnus wins debut on Jeopardy! game show | url=http://www.diamondbackonline.com/news/a-trivia-titan-1.2483107 | date=2011-06-30 | newspaper=Diamondback Online | quote=Amoros, a 24-year-old former Diamondback editor and staff writer, took an online Jeopardy! test; a timed, 50-question evaluation on a wide array of topics, early in 2010. Just weeks later, producers invited him to an audition for the show in New York. Every year, 100,000 people take the test nationwide, from which only 4,000 are invited to auditions, Amoros noted. The audition phase consisted of a much harder 50-question test, a mock game of Jeopardy! with two other people and a 15-minute personality test, Amoros said. Amoros had auditioned four times: once in each his sophomore, junior and senior years, and the fourth coming last April. It was not until this fourth time that he finally moved forward to the next stage, where between only 300 and 400 people are selected, according to Amoros. }}
• {{ cite news | last=Watkins | first=Billy | title='Jeopardy!' a natural fit for fan | url=http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20110703/FEAT0507/107030330/-Jeopardy-natural-fit-fan | newspaper=The Clarion-Ledger | location=Jackson, Mississippi | date=2011-07-03 | quote=Approximately 10,000 youngsters took the test in February 2010. Meg answered 18 of 20 questions correctly but heard nothing until July, when she was invited to an audition in Chicago. 'She went through a written test, an on-screen interview, and then they brought out the signaling device they use on the show and she tested against other kids,' says Brenda, 41, who works in the accounting department for Cellular South. 'About 250 kids auditioned and only 15 were chosen. So we knew the odds were tough.' Producers said those selected to appear on the show would be notified by phone in October. "When the calendar turned to 2011 and we hadn't heard anything, we figured she didn't make it and Meg was already talking about trying out again," Brenda says. Then she got the call in late January, saying Meg had been chosen. }}
• {{ cite news | last=Thoele | first=Cathy | title=This is Jeopardy!: Wheeler native's episode airs Tuesday | url=http://effinghamdailynews.com/local/x1295778281/This-is-Jeopardy | newspaper=Effingham Daily News | location=Effingham, Illinois | date=2011-11-21 | quote=Abby Drwecki had taken the online test to be a contestant on Jeopardy! before, but this time she was surprised when she got the call to audition for the television game show. ... In June, Drwecki, who now lives in the Denver suburb of Arvada, auditioned for the show in Kansas City and was selected to be a contestant. }}
• [http://www.tennessean.com/article/20111202/NEWS04/312020035/Hillsboro-High-teacher-headed-Jeopardy-]
• [http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20111129-NEWS-111290321]
• {{ cite news | last=Shanahan | first=Mark | title=Just how hard is it to make it onto ‘Jeopardy’?: I’ll take ‘Out of my League’ for $400, Alex | url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2015/07/20/take-out-league-for-alex/Liia88Ueq2MawhZx6FYLhJ/story.html | newspaper=The Boston Globe | location=Boston, Massachusetts | date=2015-07-21 | accessdate=2015-07-20 | quote=More than 70,000 people took the online test last year, but only about 3,000 were summoned to one of the regional auditions, and just 400 of them will be selected to be on the show, which begins taping its 32d season in Los Angeles in August. }}

While this article is not long, I believe the Wheel of Fortune section should become its own stub article. Two different subjects in one article. Us441(talk) (contribs) 12:18, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

:I agree. For the Wheel of Fortune article, the production information section should be expanded to include contestant selection similar to the section featured on the article about The Price Is Right here while most of it will be in that article. I am currently working on it in my sandbox, which can be found at User:Sjones23/Wheel of Fortune audition process. Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 22:13, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

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