Glenn Fleishman for Boing Boing:
If you have access to this quaint thing called “broadcast television,” whether over the air or through cable or satellite receivers, you might have seen me win $15,199 last night by ultimately correctly recalling Karl Marx’s name in the nick of time. That was a squeaker. I’ll be on again this evening, and you’ll see how I perform this time around.
Glenn Fleishman will be familiar to many readers for his work at Macworld and elsewhere. He’s wicked smart, so it’s no surprise to me at all that he was on Jeopardy, and that he did well.
I was great at the game if watching it on a laundromat television in 1989 counts. I can’t imagine what it’s like to undergo the pressure of holding the buzzer in your hand.
Aw, Peter, thanks! Jeopardy is a seeming test of knowledge, but also endurance (staying on form and ready to go for entire days), reflexes (the buzzer action is down to milliseconds), and bladder control.