TALKING TRIVIA and SHOP

by Tim Rich Mr. Grant DeYoung made TOTW in OQLUSA S12 WK 3 the same time he appeared on TV on Jeopardy! After my jaunt to Canada, I flew down to Prescott, AZ and met up for pizza with the four time recent champ.  Rich:  How did you first get into trivia? DeYoung: I’ve never not been into trivia. Some of my earliest memories revolve around it, mostly through the lens of game shows.  I remember watching Jeopardy! very young and being excited when the background of the set changed from blue to red before the second round. I’ve seen home movies of me using a Sit-n-Spin toy to host mock Wheel of Fortune games (Big Money! Big Money Pat - peeeeeeeeooooooooowww [Bankrupt Wedge noise]).  We would spend summers with my grandparents when I was young, and they would put the Regis Philbin-lead Who Wants to be a Millionaire? on in the living room and its knockoff rival Greed on the bedroom TV, and watch with great delight as five-year-old me raced down the long hallway separatin...

I recently caught up with Whistler's  Hannah McIntyre, who made TOTW in Week 3. She is the captain of BABS, a Jeopardy! champion, and an author. Tim:  You got 18(7) in Week 3 for TOTW. What was the question that you missed to get a full house? What did you like about Seat A1? Hannah: I missed the Roman Holiday question. TV and film is my weakest category by far, and while I certainly have heard of the movie, and I know the Vespa scooter poster, etc, I wasn’t pulling it in fifteen seconds. I generally take seat 1 on my team, mostly because it was our former captain’s seat, but I’m not picky. I’ll go wherever if someone else ever wants it. I do like going first, though, and in OQL UK where about half the time I get to choose whether my team goes first or second, I will always choose first.  Tim: How did you first get into trivia as a hobby? Hannah: I was on my school’s Reach for the Top (kind of Canadian quiz bowl) team in high school, but I never realized there was a real ...