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?.

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

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

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

I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours..

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,….

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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….

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….

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes..

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

I have always loved maps..

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….

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

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….