What is it like to be on Jeopardy?

Technology journalist Glenn Fleishman appeared on Jeopardy on Thursday and wrote up a piece for Boing Boing on his experience.

The secret of Jeopardy, what defuses the reality-show aspect, is that we all universally wanted each other to win even though we knew that only one person took home the big money and would return to fight again.

Here’s Glenn’s Final Jeopardy from that night:

I wouldn’t have gotten that question in a millions years. Maybe in high school…

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