Back when the connection from my brain to my mouse and keyboard was faster, I always took the online Jeopardy! entrance test when it came up. I think I usually passed, but they don’t tell you unless you’re selected for an audition, and I never was.
To me, the contestant-interview part of the program is usually boring; some viewers even fast-forward it. I resolved not to be fast-forwarded, and to have the required “Five interesting facts about me for Alex” ready well in advance.
They were:
- Three-day winner with wife on 1961 Merv Griffin’s Play Your Hunch
- Convinced my grandmother not to throw the cat out the window
- Wrote worst poem ever for poetry contest, still got Honorable Mention
- Played daily at abandoned US Radium plant, now a Superfund site
- Captained a sailboat at age 12 by studying a how-to book
For extra credit,
- Had my picture in Ebony magazine
- Coined the term technoboner