It all had to come to an end sometime, right? My third game of the day brought two new and formidable opponents, and once again, I felt the same during this game as I did during the others: out-gunned. I don’t know if I just never got the hang of it, or if I was […]

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Once again, I did not expect to be running back to the dressing room between shows as the Jeopardy! champion, but I excitedly changed into another dress shirt and headed back out on stage. I was up against two more formidable opponents, and once again felt somewhat out-gunned on the buzzer. Watching the show tonight, […]

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My first two games taped on a Friday, but the crew wasn’t due to return to taping until more than a week later, on that next Tuesday. I think it was related to the IBM Challenge; either way, it gave me ten days of being the reigning Jeopardy! champion, without of course being able to […]

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I began my second game, the last game to be taped that day, happy that I had won once and aware that I should be satisfied with that outcome. Of course, once you win once, you start thinking “Hey, I like this, I can keep this up,” and you don’t want to the feeling to […]

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On the morning of the big day, Aimee and Grace dropped me off at the Sony Studios lot at 8:30, just after we saw the Radisson shuttle pull in bringing out-of-town contestants from the hotel. I was glad to have been to a taping before, having seen how the process works and gotten some of […]

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I’m going to be on Jeopardy! tomorrow night. This is the story of how that happened. I wasn’t a huge Jeopardy! watcher as a kid, and watched even less of it as an adult, but I’ve always enjoyed playing along at home, and it’s hard not to be amazed at the show’s longevity. At various […]

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Now that we’re home for awhile, we had a chance to venture out to explore another Los ANgeles “small town,” after our trips to Calabasas and Montrose. This time, it was another spot we’d previously visited, but one we hadn’t really explored: South Pasadena. It’s a beautiful spot, with lot of independent businesses, picturesque neighborhoods, […]

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