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Speaker B

The more quiz questions I answer, the more I see that they tend to fall into distinct categories, and that every contestant has his or her own preferences. Personally, I'm into those which ask about something hardly anybody knows the answer to, but which include the right clues, so that, with some logical thinking and a talent for joining the dots, the contestant has some chance of giving the correct answer. A well-composed question will give you a sense of excitement not because you've answered it correctly but because the mental exercise of rooting around for the answer gives you such a thrill. Some questions are so clever that you don't mind getting them wrong. It's the challenge, not the result, that counts.

Speaker C

To tell you the truth, trying to learn a lot of trivial facts all at once doesn't work for me. In fact, I find getting ready for a quiz show extremely frustrating. Although there's very little you can do to prepare yourself for the fast pace of a show like Jeopardy!, I've found it helpful to make a practice buzzer and buzz along at home while watching the show. It's hard to substantially improve your reflexes, so contestants who have naturally quick reactions are at an advantage. You have to trust your instincts. As soon as you get an inkling of the answer, you hit the buzzer. To win you also need to be okay with the prospect of losing the large sums of cash which are at stake. I got to the final that way. My optimal strategy has always been, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained".

Speaker D

Quiz show contestants are often teased about committing countless obscure facts to memory only to satisfy their intellectual vanity and make a quick buck. However, I strongly believe that quizzing is never just about shallow recall. It's an exercise in quick thinking, and possibly the only forum where everything a contestant has ever seen, read, tasted, heard of, or lived through – can be treated as pure knowledge. A friend of mine, an English professor at a college in Bangalore, calls answering quiz questions an act of bricolage. This French term refers to how a number of things can be combined to create something new and innovative. The bricolage process holds a sense of limitless possibility – as far as ideas are concerned, it means that we can deduce many things we never knew, out of the relatively few things that we do know.