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Wiktionary: kayfabe
(professional wrestling) The act, situation, or code of portraying staged events, performances, rivalries, etc as authentic or spontaneous.
(figurative) Similar fakery or suspension of disbelief in other contexts.


Wikipedia: kayfabe

I came across the term on this page:
James Holzhauer Delivered the Greatest ‘Jeopardy!’ Burn of All Time, which reposted one of James' tweets:
Thanks to [profile] kenjennings and [profile] bradrutter for a hell of a match. Ken and Brad are great [personal profile] jeopardy players but even better people, and have been incredibly good sports about my kayfabe feuding and trash talk.

That confirms suspicions I've had after hearing those type of contestant interactions a few times on Jeopardy, that (while amusing) they were likely to have been scripted.
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Great Language Game - I got 550 points on my first try. I missed out on Somali, Estonian, and Macedonian.

The Somali sample sounds sort of like Arabic and Hebrew to me.
The Estonian sample has a slight Russian sound to it, but not much. A lot of "sh"s.
The Macedonian sounds very Russian/Slavic to me.

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Wednesday, December 6th, 2006 11:25 pm
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According the the www.personaldna.com test, I am a...
Considerate Idealist

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Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 08:36 pm
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What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The West
 

Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.

The Midland
 
Boston
 
North Central
 
The Inland North
 
Philadelphia
 
The South
 
The Northeast
 


Well I was born out West even though I haven't lived there since I was a toddler.

Note: The copy/paste code for the quiz results doesn't seem to display the graphs correctly, so I copied the HTML from the results page.

What American accent do you have? Quiz

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Monday, August 28th, 2006 11:37 am
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You scored as Neither. You think neither like a man nor like a woman. What you are you may decide for yourself. Most people will consider you strange, alien, weird or funny. You are probably quite interesting.

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Neither

54%

Either

50%

Male

50%

Female

36%

Should you be MALE or FEMALE?*
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