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To: maineman

I saw it; the Jeopardy staff is clearly writing some of these questions with a distinct political slant (the show is now owned by Sony). BTW, I took the test and qualified as a contestant a few years ago. The show “contestant coordinators” were on site - a very obese guy wearing a remarkably dirty t-shrit out of his trousers (this sloppiness clearly showed contempt for the contestant wannabees) and a less than pleasant elderly lady. The fat guy openly made it very clear that older white guys wearing suits were not welcome as contestants with some comment about they wasted their time traveling for the tryout (most of those who passed the tests that day were older white guys) which astonished me given supposed federal protections against age discrimination.


18 posted on 03/13/2010 4:32:34 AM PST by laconic
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To: laconic

A guy I used to work with back in the 1980s was a contestant. He was an extremely bright U S Army Master Sergeant (MENSA member) but did poorly on the show, not because he didn’t know the questions, but was too slow to hit the button and lost big time.


29 posted on 03/13/2010 5:36:20 AM PST by Ax (I HOPE Obama will CHANGE back into a lizard before long.)
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