Records & Contributions

Game Shows
Jeopardy!
  • Season 32, regular season (fall 2015): 13 wins, $413,612
  • Season 32 Tournament of Champions: runner-up ($100,000)
  • All-Star Games (spring 2019): runner-up (as “Team Ken” with Ken Jennings and Monica Thieu) ($100,000)
  • Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament (JIT) (spring 2024): outcome TBD

Trivia​
  • I've taken part in the World Quizzing Championships each year from 2020 to 2023.
  • 2021 Quiz Olympiad (Krakow, Poland): participant with Team USA
  • Online Quiz League USA: 2nd place, Season 1 Division I (with "Minority Rapport"); semifinalist, International Culture Challenge Season 1
  • Trivia Nationals 2019: several medals and top finishes, including:
    • Pyramidal History, Pyramidal Music, and Pyramidal Arts presented by ACE: 1st place in all
    • Not-A-Race: 3rd place (with Pam M., Brad R., Patrick F., Arianna H., Alan L., Clifford G., Hans V-W.)
    • O’Brien’s Irish Pub: 3rd place (with Yogesh R., Drew S., Daniel B., Steve O., and Idris M.)
    • Sporcle Presents Majority Rules: 1st place (with Brian F., Matt F., Patrick F., Josh H., Daniel B., )
    • Sporcle Presents Think Different: 2nd place (with Hans V-W.)
    • Pairs Quiz: 5th place (with joon pahk)
    • 5x5: Semifinalist
    • Topical Top Dogs: 5th place overall; 3rd in “Kitchen Sink” category; 2nd in “High Brow” category
  • LearnedLeague: As of summer 2019, I compete in “Rundle A,” the most competitive division of play. 
    • Championship placements: 2020 (7th of 510), 2021 (6th of 635), 2022 (9th of 663), 2023 (19th of 786)
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Crossword
  • 2019 Indie 500: 62/198 overall (69th percentile); 6/47 among rookies, no errors
  • 2019 Lollapuzzoola 12: 68/258 overall (74th percentile); 4/52 among rookies, no errors
  • New York Times Daily Crossword personal best solve times (on app):
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
2:15 2:15 2:39 2:46 4:02 5:04 6:05
​Quizbowl 

  • 2022 N. Gordon Carper Lifetime Achievement Award, Academic Competition Federation
  • 2010 NAQT High School National Championship Tournament: All-Star and 2nd-ranked individual scorer (with Georgetown Day)
  • 2010 PACE National Scholastic Championship: All-Star and top individual scorer (with Georgetown Day)
  • NAQT Intercollegiate Championship Tournament: Division II Champion (2011, with Yale B); Division I Champion (2013, with Yale A)
  • ACF Nationals: Champion (2011, with Yale), Champion (2012, with Yale), top individual scorer (2023, with Chicago A)
  • Chicago Open: Champion (2015, with Matt B, Tommy C, and Auroni G), Champion (2023, with Jordan B, Geoffrey C, and Will N)
  • For more, see QBWiki 

Writing

Talks
  • "Secrets of the Memory Champions: How Thousands of Years of Mnemonics Research Can Drive Game Show Success -- And, Perhaps, Offer A Path to Enlightenment," delivered at Nerd Nite DC, April 2019
Other
  • I wrote 90+ quizzes for the The New Yorker magazine's online "Name Drop" feature, from November 2021 through its cancellation in summer 2023.
  • LearnedLeague MiniLeagues: Philosophy 2 (winter 2020), African-American History and Culture (winter 2021), Advice (spring 2022)
  • Charity Trivia Tournament for The Bounceback Foundation (Minneapolis, MN, September 26, 2019; with Erik Nelson and Colby Burnett)
  • Many quizbowl question sets
  • I have done some independent crossword puzzle construction, but have been on indefinite hiatus from that since early 2020.

Miscellaneous
  • I was once described as the Internet's "most GIF-able human." Please don't try to verify this.