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Interesting article.

http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/pop-vox/2009/09/06/my-audition-for-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire.html

"I told them exactly what they wanted to hear."



I'm gonna redo my application, just incase by a miracle I pass the test somehow I need to be sharp during interview.


Help me out here. What are the best BS answers for these:


What makes you unique. Spirituals, quirks, rituals, etc...?


What is one thing you do that makes people laugh?


How would 1 million dollars change your life?


If you could nominate yourself best-_ or 'most likely to_", what would be your vote?


You'd never believe it but I once......
 
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Interesting article.

http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/pop-vox/2009/09/06/my-audition-for-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire.html

"I told them exactly what they wanted to hear."



I'm gonna redo my application, just incase by a miracle I pass the test somehow I need to be sharp during interview.


Help me out here. What are the best BS answers for these:


What makes you unique. Spirituals, quirks, rituals, etc...?


What is one thing you do that makes people laugh?


How would 1 million dollars change your life?


If you could nominate yourself best-_ or 'most likely to_", what would be your vote?


You'd never believe it but I once......
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That's the shit I had a hard time coming up with for Jeopardy. At least for Jeopardy they just wanted 5 anecdotes and you could go pretty much any direction you want. These guys are specific.

I could adapt my answers to those questions but I don't think my answers adapt to you. I don't know you well enough to know the right answers for you to those questions.

I feel like you've got to take that part very seriously. They want someone cool and urbane in the hot seat. If you had a lot of time (which I know you don't) I would suggest writing out a tidy little paragraph, expanding on each brief answer you put on the application. Try to work in a humorous turn of phrase or two. And basically memorize them so you can repeat them effortlessly. Of course you'll have to ad lib during the interview but it is good to have some foundational stuff in mind I think.

One thing I did was put funny little leading comments on my application. Stuff that someone sees and wants to ask more questions. Like one of mine was: I am the King of the Barbecue. Or another one was Snoopy broke my leg. And then I had a little planned paragraph to explain what I meant.



Of course I haven't succeeded in getting on Jeopardy yet so who knows how useful my advice is?
 
Thanks for the input, muddy. I was just trying to brainstorm on some good generic answers. It doesn't have to cater to my actual personality type, since it is only like a 2 minute interview. I figured I could just play it off and let them hear what they wanted.
 
Why are people so useless?

Why does that driver whose lane is going to end because of construction - and the lane closing is warned of way ahead of time - and there is no other traffic in his lane in front of him and he has perfect visibility - and there is little traffic in the lane beside him and he could easily slide over there smooth as can be a hundred different times - why does he not react until he is practically on top of the construction pilons?

Why do guys not flush the urinal? For the most part, guys flush the toilet. There are always going to be exceptions but it is pretty automatic. But when I walk up to a urinal that does not auto-flush, 78.4% of the time it will still have the urine of the last person to use it and the associated odor wafting upwards.

Why are people so useless?
 
Why do people at the grocery store stop to look at produce or whatever and leave their cart splayed out in the middle of everything, completely blocking off traffic in multiple directions - and then when you walk up to them and they realize you are obviously wanting to get by, they start scrambling around to get out of the way and seem completely taken by surprise, like it never occurred to them in a million years that other people might be trying to get around the grocery store?
 
The lyrics in U2's One seem to follow up on Frank Zappa's I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth.

Did I disappoint you
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it's...

Too late

:oops:
 
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