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….

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, wo….

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

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….

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

There’s just something hypnotic about maps..

When you make a decision you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all in Google somewhere you may not….

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

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

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 ….

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

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….

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….

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 have always loved maps..

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes..

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….

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

If youre a vegan who ran a marathon & got your dogs from a shelter, how do you decide which thing to wedge into the conversation first?.

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

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird..