This is Jeopardy
Weekly Standard Advertising Director Nick Swezey has made the cut to compete on the popular brainiac game show “Jeopardy!”
At a contestant search in Washington last month, Swezey endured the typical weeding-out process that
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separates the pretenders from true “Jeopardy!” material. According to the show’s Web site, which includes a 50-question written test, a short version of the game (complete with buzzers) and a “brief personality interview.”
Apparently, Swezey’s brain and personality are both up to snuff, because producers have invited him to stare down host Alex Trebek and two other contestants during a taping July 18 and 19 in Los Angeles. Of course, Swezey can’t tell anyone how he fared until the show airs, a silent treatment that could test whether Swezey can hold a secret in a town famous for leaks.
There is one problem, however, and it has nothing to do with a Daily Double: Swezey has received a summons to serve on federal jury duty that same week, so there still are some details to sort out.
However he does on the quiz show, it’s already been a big year for the 35-year-old. Last fall, he founded a literary imprint called Mug Shot Press with friends Cortright McMeel and Michael Langnas. The trio published its first book, an anthology of crime fiction called “Murdaland.” And, earlier this year, he became a father for the first time as he and his wife, Cathy, welcomed son William into the world.
