Seinfeld Trivia Questions

Andy Bockelman: The anxious moments of my 'Jeopardy' tryout

What is a dream?

For some people that may be a question, but for me it’s the answer, or at least the way it has to be phrased.

Allow me to elaborate. For as long as I can remember, I have had a knack for retaining trivia tidbits, layer upon layer of informational items that are useful to some depending on how just how much you need to know about a given subject.

Growing up, much of my knowledge wasn’t something that was likely to turn a profit, as I had yet to see a booth at career day for people who specialized in lyrics to “Weird Al” Yankovic songs, vintage Nintendo games or “Seinfeld” catchphrases. But, once I hit my sophomore year at Moffat County High School, one thing led to another, yadda-yadda-yadda, and then I was part of the school’s Knowledge Bowl team.

As part of the team, eventually serving as captain in my senior year, I thought I had hit my peak in the question-and-answer world when my fellow eggheads and I finally qualified for the state tournament in 2004 only to be quickly shot down in a blaze of glory, to borrow a phrase from Jon Bon Jovi.

Most serendipitously, I was proved wrong last month when a fateful email entered my inbox. I learned that I had qualified for an official audition for “Jeopardy!”

Yes, that “Jeopardy!”

It all began in February, when I logged onto the show’s website for the annual online test, the yearly ritual to prove whose IQ measures up in the eyes of Sony Pictures Television. Having taken the adult version of the quiz every year since it was first offered in digital form, I was ready for a grueling trek lasting 50 questions guaranteed to make me feel like a nitwit.

Truth be told, after this engagement, I didn’t have the highest hopes to move on to the next level of the tryout process, constantly questioning my responses for the rest of the week.

Was it Monet, Manet or another artist entirely?

Was Jordan the correct country beginning with “J” or was I even in the right part of the globe when I typed that answer?

Why haven’t I read more works by Charles Dickens so that I could remember which characters are from “Oliver Twist,” which are from “David Copperfield” and which are from “Great Expectations?”

But, as life wore on, I forgot that such an assault on my smarts had ever taken place, content to getting back into the swing of things watching the show and its “Wheel of Fortune” follow-up day after day and never daring to dream that I would ever stand at one of those neon podiums.

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