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Prisoner of Trebekistan
Bob Harris
A Decade in Jeopardy!
Crown
September 2006
On Sale: September 5, 2006
352 pages
ISBN: 0307339564
EAN: 9780307339560
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir | Humor
A.: This is the story of a working-class guy from Ohio
with little real knowledge of Ambidextrous Presidents,
Things Made from Rubber, and hundreds of other categories,
but who nonetheless plunges so far into cramming for
Jeopardy! that it changes his relationships, bends his
worldview, and literally leads him to the ends of the earth,
trying to understand it all.
Q.: What is Prisoner of
Trebekistan?
Welcome to a world where obscure
information is crucial to survival, vast sums of cash are at
stake, and milliseconds can change not just a game but the
course of your entire life. (Plus, you could win two Camaros
and enough Bon Ami cleanser to scrub a small
nation.)
Prisoner of Trebekistan is Bob
Harris’s hilarious, insightful account of one man’s unlikely
epic journey through Jeopardy!, gleefully exploring
triumph and failure, the nature of memory, and how knowledge
itself can transform you in unpredictable ways—all against
the backdrop of the most popular quiz show in
history.
In Prisoner of Trebekistan, Bob
chronicles his transformation from a struggling stand-up
comic who repeatedly fails the Jeopardy! audition
test into an elite player competing against the show’s most
powerful brains. To get there, he embarks on a series of
intense study sessions, using his sense of humor to
transform conventional memory skills into a refreshingly
playful approach to learning that’s as amusing as it is
powerful.
What follows is not only a captivating
series of high-stakes wins and losses on Jeopardy!,
but also a growing appreciation of a borderless world that
Bob calls Trebekistan, where a love of learning reigns and
the smarter you get the more you realize how much you don’t
yet know.
Filled with secrets that only a veteran
contestant could share—from counterintuitive game strategies
to Jedi-like tactics with the Jeopardy! signaling
device—Prisoner of Trebekistan also gives you the
chance to play along with the actual clues that led to
victory or defeat in high-level tournaments, plus candid,
moving reflections on how the games affected Bob’s offstage
life—and vice versa.
Not only an irresistible treat
for Jeopardy! fans, Prisoner of Trebekistan is
a delight for anyone who loves a rollicking tale that
celebrates the unpredictability of life and the sneaky way
it has of teaching us the things that really matter.
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