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Hi! Two questions. 1- I'm on my high school's quiz bowl team. Do you have any advice for studying for such competitions (particularly quiz bowl and Jeopardy! It's my dream to get on the show) and for improving buzzer speed? 2- What was it like playing against a computer? I've always wondered what that would be like (though one of my teammates comes close), and if the questions were programmed so that Watson would receive the question at the same rate you and Ken Jennings did.

Well, I can't exactly say that I really study for practice for quiz bowl outside of weekly team practice, where half the point of showing up is the discussion, so it feels good to know I'm in such good company. I guess I'll just keep showing up and watching Jeopardy! because combined with a knack for remembering odd things at the right time, that strategy has worked for the last 5 or so years. I would seriously love to see a new iteration of Watson that is fed the questions at a similar rate that you can read/hear them, so that it has to process information as it receives it.