Current Events > Jeopardy - how do the contestants know the answers to all this shit?

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Random obscure questions that they somehow have the majority of the answers committed to memory

How the fuck do they pull it off?

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they are NEETs and spend every day expanding their minds

but I guess their job is jeopardy so they aren't NEETs??
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Damn_Underscore posted...

they are NEETs and spend every day expanding their minds

but I guess their job is jeopardy so they aren't NEETs??

They aren't NEETs. The first thing every show opens with is what the person does for work

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They don't they know the questions.

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It's rigged like the movie Quiz Show

They're fed the answers in through an earpiece

As someone who is very good at trivia, the questions on Jeopardy the show are written in a way that even someone who doesn't know the specific fact will be able to deduce the answer via context clues.
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REMercsChamp posted...

They aren't NEETs. The first thing every show opens with is what the person does for work

what would happen if a Jeopardy contestant is unemployed? Would they actually say that?

makes you wonder how many Jeopardy contestants are unemployed and they just say a fake job title.
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Damn_Underscore posted...

what would happen if a Jeopardy contestant is unemployed? Would they actually say that?

makes you wonder how many Jeopardy contestants are unemployed and they just say a fake job title.

They'd be introduced as "self-employed", "entrepreneur", "freelancer" etc

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Damn_Underscore posted...

what would happen if a Jeopardy contestant is unemployed? Would they actually say that?

makes you wonder how many Jeopardy contestants are unemployed and they just say a fake job title.

"I'm a freelancer who specializes in the production of carbon dioxide from organic molecules."

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Some people are just great with trivia. I've been trying to low-key convince my father to try it for years.

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Might as well try it guys. You can't do any worse than the guy who became champion with $1

REMercsChamp posted...

They aren't NEETs. The first thing every show opens with is what the person does for work

Isnt professional gambler basically a NEET?

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Back a few years ago, I applied to be on the show. They give you the subject matter to study up on.

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They give you a list of subjects to go over. Not all of what they give you will be actual questions, and there are a few surprises, but it's nothing insane. The show would be boring if people were constantly getting answers wrong.
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Hey TC, on average, what percentage of the questions do you know the answers to? Half? 25%?

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harley2280 posted...

They give you a list of subjects to go over. Not all of what they give you will be actual questions, and there are a few surprises, but it's nothing insane. The show would be boring if people were constantly getting answers wrong.

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also I don't think these are true

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They watch the show a lot

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I assume they give you some kind of study guide. I dont know 70% of the questions on that show >_>
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There's a user over at RI who's very good at trivia and she managed to get on the show a few times.

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The clues on the show are easier than those on the test, so as to facilitate quick, good play.
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They are literally given the categories to study for prior to the game.

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DuranOfForcena posted...

contestants are not given a study guide or what the categories are or any information about the game they are going to be participating in before the game begins. i don't know where people get these ideas from. they are wrong. contestants are however put through a rigorous try-out process consisting of an online test, in-person test and practice games.

Rachel Lindgren, yeah, she did very well in her regular run and then participated in the most recent tournament of champions.

100% wrong!

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They give you stuff to study before the actual show but it's all random on what questions will be asked. So if you have a good memory you'll win.

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KINDERFELD posted...

They are literally given the categories to study for prior to the game.

no they aren't @KINDERFELD

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KillerKhan420 posted...

They give you stuff to study before the actual show but it's all random on what questions will be asked. So if you have a good memory you'll win.

they don't give you anything to study @KillerKhan420

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Ever heard the saying a mile wide but an inch deep? Thats jeopardy. If youve got a good memory, you dont need a huge understanding of much. All the categories are asking pretty basic stuff.

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@harley2280

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It's not like the questions are things people couldn't actually know...

I know like 25% of the answers yet my cousin gets like 80% nearly everytime. He's not a genius or anything but dude is always reading something to learn.
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Ive never gotten a jeopardy question right. Youd have to give me no time limot and and easy answer.

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DuranOfForcena posted...

@KINDERFELD

so i guess you got nothing then

If you know you're correct, why keep hassling me to prove you wrong?

Are you that much a simpleton?

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DuranOfForcena posted...

lmao you don't get to tell me i'm 100% wrong, with no evidence, about something i'm right about and then call anyone else a simpleton

not if you want to be taken seriously by anyone here, that is

You are correct.

Now git!

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Jeopardy does not provide contestants with any semblance of a study guide. You are put through a rigorous qualification process to determine first and foremost that you are knowledgeable enough to warrant being on the program. But the entire point of Jeopardy is to have a well-rounded breadth (and ideally depth) of knowledge of various subjects; to provide a study guide would be antithetical to that. Contestants such as Ken Jennings and James Holzhauer have spoken about this.

Quite simply: you just have to know a lot of shit.