This recent Jeopardy! obsession and paranoia has mostly been inspired by my current reading of Ken Jennings's Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs (but also influenced heavily by my recent surprise birthday party awesome trivia experience). Of course, I am a huge nerd, and Ken is one of my heroes. He's also a pretty good (at least funny) writer. There are a bunch of quotes in his book that I would like to have in my commonplace book, but I really don't want write all of the out right now as I read them. So, I think I'll write them down here under the chapter titles. It's humorous and fun, and I just thought it might be something neat to share. So, all the quotes and chapter titles that seem trivia and Jeopardy! related are all from Ken Jennings, they are not my own invention.
"A book about trivia has, potentially, the same problem that rock criticism or a sex manual does: it's never as much fun as the real thing."
-Ken Jennings
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