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Gina Barreca, Ph.D. is Professor of English at UConn, and author of It's Not That I'm Bitter: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World. See full bio

June 19, 2009, Anxiety

Comments on "Risk and Television: My Mastermind Story"

Risk and Television: My Mastermind Story

By Regina Barreca, Ph.D. on June 19, 2009 in Snow White Doesn't Live Here Anymore

At one BBC party, as I was trying to shove as many shrimp as possible into my cheeks in order to get some kind of protein into my system, a producer asked me to appear on a TV show that was a sort-of grown-up version of College Bowl.

The show was called "Mastermind" and was very popular in Britain at the time.

You sat under a spotlight on a stage and an announcer fired questions at you concerning a special subject and what was vaguely titled "general knowledge." Read More

From another MASTERMIND contestant

Submitted by Anonymous on June 20, 2009 - 1:17pm.

Well done.

Quiz Shows

Submitted by Stephen Benedict-Mason on June 21, 2009 - 5:43am.

Buck Up Doc,

My wife and I (both Ph.D. university professors with MENSA IQ's)did a few quiz shows when we first arrived in Southern California...the TV home of such media fare. We both failed.

Now I watch JEOPARDY and get one third of the answers but rarely as quickly as the people on-screen.

Knowledge is only part of the equation. It also takes a certain talent to do well.

Steve Mason
PT Blogger

PS I'll bet you know Utah's highest point now.