Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.
I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.
It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.
There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls to us, wonโt let us look anywhere else in the room if thereโs a map on the wall.
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.