"Recapping the 2024 'Jeopardy!' Tournament of Champions"
Originally Published 1 year ago — by Jeopardy!
Yogesh Raut reflects on his experience winning the 2024 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, highlighting the diverse forms of intelligence and the importance of creativity and curiosity in quizzing success. He discusses the impact of his upbringing as a child of immigrants on his drive for learning and the significance of knowledge in navigating exclusion. Raut emphasizes that quizzing is not about robotic memorization but about making the world memorable by investing it with meaning, and suggests that for less privileged individuals, trivia can be a matter of survival.