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

  • A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
  • A cow-bison hybrid is called a "beefalo."
  • If you take all the letters from the word "wizard" and swap them with opposite letters (a->z, b->y), it spells wizard backwards.
  • Tic Tac mints are named after the sound their container makes.
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