I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a 'cyborg,' not a 'robot.'

We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.

For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., wheres theres crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.

I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.

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