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

The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing.

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.

It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.

Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

I threw the opening pitch at a Blue Jays game, and after the pitch, the mascot asked me if I wanted him to sign the game ball, which I thought was funny. What would he write? "Best Wishes, Some Guy in a Bird Suit"?"

For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.