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

I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours..

You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic pla….

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

I can't relax and sink back in the couch and watch 'Jeopardy!' the way I used to..

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….

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,….

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 s….

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 fu….

Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a world wh….

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes..

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

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

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….

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

Sure I have a cell-phone, so I don't have to remember everyone's number anymore, but that really wasn't a core part of my brain..

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

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

People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often as simple as a piece of Tupperware hidden in the ….

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….

I have always loved maps..