The first time I tried to get on Jeopardy! I was still in college and went to an old-school cattle-call at the Mall of America. You (and like 15,000 other people) took a ten-question test. If you got eight or more correct, you took a second test, this time 50 questions on a video monitor in a room of 50-100 people. It stopped at this point for me.
Fast-forward to 2004. I’ve moved to Texas. I got a weird phone call. It was the contestant department. [I assume I passed an online test to get the phone call, but this is a weird interim phase where they had just made the transition from the cattle-call audition to their present no-hurt-feelings-welcome-to-contestant-limbo system.