By JULIA SELDEN
Your happy family PC may not seem so friendly once you get hooked on the online netshow called 'You Don't Know Jack.'
A product of beZerk, an online entertainment network, the netshow 'You Don't Know Jack' is a form of the same game available on CD-ROM, according to the 'You Don't Know Jack' website. Full of insults, quick wit and off-the-wall questions, 'You Don't Know Jack' is not just a website, it is an interactive trivia game that includes commercials, an automatic scorekeeper and the voice of a host that irreverently narrates the game.
But 'You Don't Know Jack' can be much more than a source of entertainment and insults. Those who register and play the 'You Don't Know Jack' and 'You Don't Know Jack Sports' netshows at least once a week will be entered into a weekly grand prize drawing, according to the website. While scores are not counted for the June weekly prizes (which are four trips to a Club Med resort), a high score may be required to claim other prizes, according to the website. To have your scores tracked, you must register electronically and play all games from the same computer or reregister if you play from a different computer, according to the website.
You can play by yourself (if you do, be prepared to be made fun of for not being able to find a partner) or you can play with a friend (this, too, will probably draw an insult). Either way, each game, consisting of 15 questions, a 'Jack Attack' and a few short commercials, takes about 10 or 15 minutes to play.
Questions are given to you based on which category you choose, and you are awarded or deducted 'money' based on your answer. Sounds fairly basic, right? Obviously, you don't know jack, because these aren't your run-of-the-mill Trivial Pursuit questions. While you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure them out, they have a wacky slant that definitely requires you to have on your thinking cap.
New episodes come out Mondays and Thursdays, but you only have to download the program once, according to the website.
'You Don't Know Jack' can be found at http://www.bezerk.com.
And, as Jack says, 'If you have any questions, please feel free to keep them to yourself.'