Jeopardy! Teen Tournament
Jeopardy! Teen Tournament
Anybody on the Jeopardy! teen tournament active in quizbowl?
Re: Jeopardy! Teen Tournament
Ben Schenkel from Moravian (PA) will be on this Wednesday. He was an all-star (#14 individual scorer) at HSNCT last year.wd4gdz wrote:Anybody on the Jeopardy! teen tournament active in quizbowl?
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Top 4 non-winners (wildcards) make it in. Ben's guaranteed a spot.AndyBrindlee Mountain wrote:Ben from Moravian got 3rd after blanking on Moby Dick in Final Jeopardy. I think they're having a wild card game though, se he may still make it to the semis. I could be wrong though.
Is he the only quiz bowler who made it?
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I'm not sure I would call his answer "blanking". If you keyed in on "wrecked" then Robinsoe Crusoe was tempting. If you focused on "whaling ship" then Moby Dick was the choice.AndyBrindlee Mountain wrote:Ben from Moravian got 3rd after blanking on Moby Dick in Final Jeopardy. I think they're having a wild card game though, se he may still make it to the semis. I could be wrong though.
Is he the only quiz bowler who made it?
Moravian's team won the varsity division of the Delaware Fall Open, with Ben in the captain's chair. He told me he had made it that day.
I don't know about the other 13, but I can tell you David from Wilmington Friends is not a quizbowler. Friends does not even have a team, and does not do Delaware Comcast tournament. Charter had 3 in the pool, but alas none were picked. We got our revenge when an unhappy David finished second at the WorldQuest competition a few weeks ago.
For a broader topic of conversation: does anyone else think Jeopardy is shying away from quizbowlers since Ken Jennings' success?
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I've always told people who try out for Jeopardy!: it is a casting call. It's not merit-based. It's a question of who the producers think look good on camera and can carry themselves as likeable competitors to an audience. I doubt that they are deliberately avoiding qb players; they know they're out there, and they have recruited people who compete at qb the last few times. However, playing qb is not sufficient to get recalled onto the show.
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I disagree with the avoiding. But I do think that its about who they think will work well on TV. I mean, if you were a casting director, would you pick a genius who, albeit smart, might faint on TV. Granted, there's a ridiculous amount of luck and/or personality going into the choice, but discounting merit completely is unfair to the process. I mean, in order to be eligible, you have to take a test which is reasonably hard to pass.
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Well, remember that a lot of people at home like to follow along with the questions and 'play along'. If Jeopardy takes the top merit-qualified candidates that also fulfill the other criteria (e.g. telegenic nature, personality, appearance, demographics), people would not drop any questions, people would answer all the questions very quickly and not get many questions wrong.
Jeopardy takes a variety of people (who are at least qualified by the test) in terms of merit, because they want to make it interesting. They want people who will answer many questions successfully, people who will miss questions, people who the audience can relate to on an intellectual/knowledge level, etc.
(At least this is how I see it...if anyone can correct me with a better explanation I would greatly appreciate it.)
Jeopardy takes a variety of people (who are at least qualified by the test) in terms of merit, because they want to make it interesting. They want people who will answer many questions successfully, people who will miss questions, people who the audience can relate to on an intellectual/knowledge level, etc.
(At least this is how I see it...if anyone can correct me with a better explanation I would greatly appreciate it.)
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I admit that, at first, I was thinking Robinson Crusoe, but then, 2 things popped into my head that made me change my answer: 1) It said whale ship and 2) Robinson Crusoe is believed to be largely based on Alexander Selkirk and his sailing mishap.Stat74 wrote:I'm not sure I would call his answer "blanking". If you keyed in on "wrecked" then Robinsoe Crusoe was tempting. If you focused on "whaling ship" then Moby Dick was the choice.AndyBrindlee Mountain wrote:Ben from Moravian got 3rd after blanking on Moby Dick in Final Jeopardy. I think they're having a wild card game though, se he may still make it to the semis. I could be wrong though.
Is he the only quiz bowler who made it?
I've never been on the show though, so I can't say what I'd have done.
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Jeopardy does want a variety, but the test doesn't provide for it. Most people have a problem with the timing issues of the test. Only the people who can digest the information quickly enough can pass the test. I think they said the average score with the time limit is like a 25 and the average score with 2 seconds more per question is like a 35. Something like that. The nature of the tryouts is such that the people who pass will be quick thinking and smart. And as far as missing questions, that's close to impossible to figure out. Like I had a horrible accuracy level on the show, but in tryouts I didn't miss any questions, and I believe I got a 49 on the test. Just goes to prove, while they look for variety, it's ridiculously hard to find.
Jeopardy does want a variety, but the test doesn't provide for it. Most people have a problem with the timing issues of the test. Only the people who can digest the information quickly enough can pass the test. I think they said the average score with the time limit is like a 25 and the average score with 2 seconds more per question is like a 35. Something like that. The nature of the tryouts is such that the people who pass will be quick thinking and smart. And as far as missing questions, that's close to impossible to figure out. Like I had a horrible accuracy level on the show, but in tryouts I didn't miss any questions, and I believe I got a 49 on the test. Just goes to prove, while they look for variety, it's ridiculously hard to find.
They just announced on tonight's Jeopardy that they will be having this year, for the first time, a second teen tournament that will air in July. So I'm thinking she's part of that. Congratulations to her!mhanna wrote:Aiken's Amy Varallo travels to LA on March 10th for Jeopardy competition to be aired in July. Is this new? I didn't know that there was more than one teen tournament.
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