Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.

Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer

There’s just something hypnotic about maps.

I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.

I remember one of my last shows, the Final Jeopardy! clue was something like 'These two boys' names are top 10 boys' names in the U.S., they both end with the same letter, and they're both names of Jesus' apostles.' Now, obviously that's not a knowable fact.

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.