John McQuaidAn interesting window on the "quizzing" or "trivia" subculture and its relationship to the (distinct) Jeopardy! subculture, and how subcultures and their participants can take themselves extremely seriously https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kelseyweekman/jeopardy-facebook-posts-yogesh-raut
To most people the idea that "Jeopardy!" is not a serious kind of quiz show seems odd because it is the only enduring nationally-broadcast and popular quiz show in American culture, and it's not easy to win. Of course there are harder, more purely knowledge-based quiz games and lots of people participating. But should that necessarily influence how anybody feels about Jeopardy? (Really the Raut rants seem to be mainly a post-hoc rationalization about winning Jeopardy! only 3x)
tjanger@johnmcquaid Gotta master the buzzer too!