As I sat on my flight back from LAX to PDX in November 2022, reflecting on my time on J!, I thought I had maybe proven myself to be pretty smart. I had won over $98,000, been part of J!’s only “Perfect Game” since the 20th century, and capped it all off with a fun night at O’Brien’s, the so-called “hardest pub quiz in the country.”
Waiting for the plane to take off, I started playing the find-the-hidden-object game on the monitor in front of me. The woman next to me saw what I was doing and began playing too. It didn’t take long for her to completely outpace me. Eventually, her boyfriend commenced as well, and he zoomed past me in no time at all.
Oh, right, I reminded myself. There’s many different flavors of “smart.” And so I got over myself and went back to my life.
Source: Yogesh Raut Reflects on Winning the 2024 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions | J!Buzz | Jeopardy.com