trivia
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Buzzers and Blazers: How I Prepared for Jeopardy
When most people get The Call from Jeopardy!, they spend the next six weeks cramming. They memorize Best Picture winners, potent potable ingredients, and presidential terms. This may, at best, net you a few extra thousand dollars. To even get… Continue reading
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The Weird World of Competitive Quizzing
After my failure on Millionaire, I immersed myself in my career. Five years later, hoping to rekindle my love of trivia, I joined a pub quiz meetup in New York. There, the leader tried to explain women’s breasts and the… Continue reading
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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Me)
I was living the millennial dream in summer 2011: having graduated college without a job, I moved back to my parents’ house in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. By day, I waited tables at Applebee’s. By night, I belted out “Me and Bobby… Continue reading
Kristen VanBloggin’ 