Timepiece Trivia Nerds: This One's For You

Here’s a fun fact most people don’t know about me: In 1997, I was a contestant on the very first episode of Win Ben Stein’s Money, Comedy Central’s irreverent answer to Jeopardy! I have the VHS tape to prove it. Although I ended up in second place, losing out to a two-time former Jeopardy! champion named Mitchell, who did, in fact, take Ben Stein’s money, I thoroughly enjoyed my experience on the show, which made me modestly famous among my group of friends and acquaintances when the network aired and re-aired my episode. All this is by way of saying I’m a big-time trivia nerd (Don’t even think about calling me at 7 pm.

on weeknights—Jeopardy! is a sacrosanct tradition in my home!) When longtime watch journalist and former WatchTime editor Norma Buchanan sent me a revised edition of her 2006 classic, The Watch Buff’s Book of Trivia, a few weeks ago, she . Source