Audition report--

Ah... shades of the infamous 100,000 Dollar Pyramid audition lo these many years ago. Win Ben Stein's Money is a trivia-based show and as such the audition process requires passing a written trivia test. The test is thirty questions long. A score of fifteen correct or better qualifies one to continue in the auditioning process. I will not be continuing.

I received the call from Harv last week and he mentioned our It Takes Two adventure last year and that he was now working at Comedy Central's show. I warned him that I felt the show was too tough and not up my alley. He gave me a 10-question test over the phone and I got seven correct. Such a high score seemed to indicate that I should give it a shot. What the high score really indicated was that they dumbed the questions down a bit for the phone interview to get more bodies in for the audition.

Jacqueline Samuda, my It Takes Two partner, also suffered the same cruel fate. She and I both fell below the magic 15. So the two of us went out and played some Scrabble at a local restaurant so we could both feel smart again.

Let's see how you would do. Of the thirty questions, I remembered twenty. (See, a memory test I could have passed.) They are as follows...

  1. What Shakespeare play includes the line, "I am a Jew... If I am pricked, do I not bleed."?

  2. What Latin phrase means "genuine" or "in good faith"?
  3. What Alaska rodent's migration sometimes results in the animals being so scared they throw themselves into the water?
  4. What amendment allows Americans the right to keep and bear arms?
  5. Who is the current Head of State in France?
  6. Who beat Napoleon at Waterloo?
  7. What language do have the people in Belgium speak?
  8. What state is Duke University in?
  9. What group's latest album was "Bridges to Babylon"?
  10. What country are the Appenine Mountains in?
  11. What is the name for the symbol '&' ?
  12. What plant has Cattleya and Chrimbium varieties?
  13. Who was convicted of killing Medgar Evans?
  14. What was Bill Clinton's last name at birth?
  15. Though originally 3, how many Greek muses are there?
  16. What is the sash on a Japanese kimono called?
  17. What country is UN Secretary General Boutros-Boutros Ghali from?
  18. What nursery rhyme character had "pretty maids all in a row"?
  19. What gas is the second element of the Periodic Table?
  20. What country does The King and I take place in?

Of those twenty, I think I got eight right. Of course, to be on par, you would need to correctly answer ten of these, so I did not quite have what Ben Stein wanted. They did not give out the answers, but they were provided by Christian Pippia. Once you've made your guesses, click here.

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