Letters to the Editor
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"Fifth Avenue"
and "Lee Aspin", which was Jeopardy's mistaken crediting of a wrong answer to my opponent, but we won't get into that.
Heck, my wife and I got a wonderful week in Aruba, and if I'd won I'd have qualified for the lunch they serve after three games, which wasn't Kosher for Passover so I couldn't have eaten it.
Trivia is a cultural phenomenon that, apart from Jeopardy and its shorter-running progeny on cable, usually exists well outside the notice of popular culture. Indeed, you'll find, say, an athlete or artist who has become a trivia question (say, Floyd Rayford or Pete Best; I'll explain Rayford at the bottom), either shying away from the celebrity that induces or embracing it in a Danny Bonaduce way. Yet, the culture does exist; I've been part of it for over a decade, hosting a weekly trivia game on AOL since 1995. Some people play for the trivia, some for the camaraderie and sense of community that comes from a shared interest in knowledge, some for a chance to kick butt without eating bugs or exerting themselves physically.
Floyd Rayford was the Orioles third baseman on May 30, 1982, when Cal Ripken, Jr. was moved to shortstop and started his consecutive games streak.