Weinberg sophomore Katie Singh will be buzzing in on national television Friday afternoon, when she appears on the “Jeopardy!” College Championship.
Her episode airs Friday at 3:30 PM CST on ABC7.
This is Singh’s first appearance on the show, after being cut during the audition round last year. She said she decided to take the online test again in February to qualify for the championship and was granted another audition in Chicago.
The audition consisted of a 50-question test, a mock game of “Jeopardy!” and an interview. This time, Singh passed.
“[They were] looking for personality, knowledge and people who would be personable, interesting and confident on TV,” Singh said.
To practice, Singh said she watched episodes of the show and worked on “buzzing in.” When she knew the answer to a question, she would click on a pen that she received at the audition.
When she told her friends that she had made the show, she said she remembered them saying, “You would be the person to go on Jeopardy.”
Singh said she always knew the answers to all the questions when she watched Jeopardy at home.
“We studied together … she has an amazing general knowledge,” Weinberg sophomore Yasha Saxena said. “She watches the news a lot.”
When they would go to Kafein together, Saxena remembers Singh knowing all the answers to the cafe’s trivia cards.
“I knew that she was super smart, but not Jeopardy smart,” SESP sophomore Jennie van den Boogaard said. “She knows a lot of things from all parts of life since she’s pre-med and a political science major.”
Although she said being on the show was fun, Singh admitted that she was nervous.
“I didn’t want to make a fool of myself on national TV, like fall on my face or say something stupid,” she said.
Despite the fact that it was a game show, Singh felt that there wasn’t any competitive atmosphere during her time on the show. When she left, she had made 15 new friends.
“I met a lot of awesome people,” Singh said. “It was one of the best experiences I could ask for.”
