{"id":17497,"date":"2017-06-20T08:49:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T12:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=17497"},"modified":"2017-10-12T12:19:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T16:19:41","slug":"made-utc-grad-contestant-tonight-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/made-utc-grad-contestant-tonight-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"What is: I made it! UTC grad a contestant on \u2018Jeopardy!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"well span3 pull-right\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" data-attachment-id=\"17506\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/made-utc-grad-contestant-tonight-jeopardy\/jeopardylogo-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/JeopardyLogo-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1050,591\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"JeopardyLogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/JeopardyLogo-1-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17506 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/JeopardyLogo-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/JeopardyLogo-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/JeopardyLogo-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/JeopardyLogo-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/JeopardyLogo-1-580x326.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/JeopardyLogo-1-610x343.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/JeopardyLogo-1-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/JeopardyLogo-1-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/05\/JeopardyLogo-1.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Jeopardy! by the Numbers<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The original daytime version of \u201cJeopardy!\u201d debuted on NBC in 1964 and ran until 1975. The current daily syndicated version premiered in 1984 with Alex Trebek as host.<\/li>\n<li>Alex Trebek has hosted more than 7,300 episodes.<\/li>\n<li>More than 450,000 clues have been played over 33 seasons.<\/li>\n<li>Contestants have won more than $100 million in prize money since 1984.<\/li>\n<li>Jeopardy! has won 33 Emmys and holds the Guinness World Records record for the most Emmy Awards won by a TV game show.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>It had been 18 months since Justin Braddock went to the audition in Atlanta and, since no one had called, he figured, \u201cOh well, I didn\u2019t make the cut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then the phone rang last January and the caller asked if he could be in Los Angeles in February.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d made the cut; he&#8217;d made it on \u201cJeopardy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Braddock, a UTC graduate who earned bachelor\u2019s degrees in electrical engineering and applied math in 2012 and a master\u2019s in business administration in 2015, was on \u201cJeopardy\u201d Monday night. He didn&#8217;t win, but still enjoyed the experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very, very cool,\u201d says Braddock, who works as a power engineer at TVA. \u201cYou tick something off your bucket list.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He taped the show on Feb. 22 \u2014 or perhaps taped the &#8220;shows,&#8221; since they run through five episodes a day. Win one and you go on to the next.<\/p>\n<p>The day starts at 7 a.m. when a shuttle picks up contestants at the hotel, but actual taping doesn\u2019t start until about 10:30 a.m. In the meantime, contestants sign tax forms and go over the rules, among other tasks, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Before taping starts, contestants are brought into the studio to play a couple of mock games with producers, who stand in for host Alex Trebek.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt gets the brain thinking so you\u2019re not just sitting there and the show starts and it\u2019s, \u2018Here you go!\u2019\u201d Braddock says.<\/p>\n<p>The pre-game buildup also helps contestants get accustomed to using the buzzers and gives producers a chance to offer some instructions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey say, \u2018Smile more. Speak up.\u2019 They want to put on a good show,\u201d says Braddock, who flew out to L.A. with his wife then met up with his parents, who live in California.<\/p>\n<p>For some, however, the hours before showtime are a time for nerves to start jangling and anxiety to ramp up, but Braddock says that didn\u2019t really happen to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not that afraid to be up in front of a crowd,\u201d he says, \u201cbut I can see how, if you\u2019re not comfortable doing something like giving a speech, you might be more nervous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for boning up on knowledge before heading out to L.A., Braddock says there really wasn\u2019t much he could do. He received some advice from people who had been on the show, he says, and there are some websites that have \u201cJeopardy\u201d shows going back decades. Basically, though, you know the stuff or you don\u2019t, he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did a little bit of studying, but there\u2019s not really many things to study.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watching the show on a regular basis is the best tool and is something he\u2019s done for years, he says. Familiarity with the categories and the way the answers are written can help you figure out what the correct question is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If they say \u2018German composer,\u2019 it\u2019s probably going to be Wagner,\u201d he says. \u201cIf there\u2019s \u2018iron\u2019 and \u2018French engineer,\u2019 it\u2019s going to be Eiffel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He can\u2019t say much about which categories came up when he played, but he will say he did well on \u201cStates by Beer.\u201d Contestants don\u2019t know what the categories are \u201cuntil they pop up onscreen,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p>And no, contestants don\u2019t get to hang with Trebek. The host didn\u2019t show up onstage until just before taping started and, except for the brief time when he talks to contestants near the beginning of each show, he\u2019s not a chitchatter, Braddock says.<\/p>\n<p>Still, that didn\u2019t matter, he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a blast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\"src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I8V8N-jBuQY?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;autohide=1&#038;showinfo=0&#038;controls=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It had been 18 months since Justin Braddock went to the audition in Atlanta and, since no one had called, he figured, \u201cOh well, I didn\u2019t make the cut.\u201d Then the phone rang last January and the caller asked if he could be in Los Angeles in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/made-utc-grad-contestant-tonight-jeopardy\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1105,"featured_media":18090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,123864,59,48048,57,52],"tags":[12764,7392,12763,48423,48421,48422],"class_list":{"0":"post-17497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-advancement-and-alumni","8":"category-college-of-engineering-and-computer-science","9":"category-electrical-engineering","10":"category-college-of-business","11":"category-graduate-school","12":"category-news","13":"tag-alumni","14":"tag-college-of-engineering","15":"tag-college-of-engineering-and-computer-science","16":"tag-contestant","17":"tag-jeopardy","18":"tag-trebek","19":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What is: I made it! 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