Alex Trebek Has Led a More Interesting Life Than All of Us

The Application Process Isn't Easy

Every year, over 100,000 people take an online quest seeing whether they qualify for Jeopardy! The producers are then tasked with narrowing down the pool to 3,000 applications, who are selected to individually audition. After a one-on-one interview, potential candidates are subject to a written quiz of 50 questions and a live round of Jeopardy! with actual buzzers. Only then do the producers select 400 people to appear on that season of the show. Despite the exhausting process, it's all worth it in the end.

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The More You Know

  • There's only one country in the world that doesn't use the metric system.
  • A pack of chihuahuas once terrorized a town in Arizona.
  • The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
  • People write love letters to trees in Australia via email.
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