On Jeopardy! Tonight -- A Month After My Dream Category
So my appearance on Jeopardy! airs tonight. That was a really fun experience – I’ll tell more of that story later. But I want to share a weird circumstance I noticed.
Just about everyone who’s dreamed about being a contestant on Jeopardy! has fantasized about “their” category coming up, right? Not one that they’re the #1 expert in the world in, just one that they know more about than any random contestant.
Like, say, if you edited a Wikipedia entry for something and that ended up being the exact subject of the category. Maybe, let’s just say, you’ve only created one entry in Wikipedia ever, one you wouldn’t ever expect would be a category on Jeopardy, and then bam, there it is on the game board.
Well, I was exactly one month away from that scenario coming true:
The only contributions I’ve made to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Zachbaker
A month ago on Jeopardy, June 11, 2007 (see the second category)
Let me say I’m not bitter or unhappy at all, just amazed. So I had to mention it. Tune in tonight and see what categories I actually face.