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...kind of pleasantly surprised,” she said. “When I came back I could only remember the questions I got wrong; I couldn’t remember any of the ones I’d gotten right.”And despite her ultimate loss, Naam managed to answer a number of tricky questions correctly over the course of the program...
Asked to put together a pun involving the telephone’s inventor and a common ingredient in a garden salad, the Yalie jumped to ask, “What is bell pepper?”—the wrong response. Naam, however, buzzed in with “What is Alexander Bell Pepper,” which the judges ruled correct. Basin had no reply to the puzzler...
That consultation with the show’s judges appeared to take only a moment to television viewers, but Naam said a similar controversy involving one of the Eli’s responses had in fact taken far longer in person than it did on screen...
...amazing how fast they made everything go,” Naam said...
...after meeting Trebek in person, Naam also chalked up the host’s patented on-screen charm to the show’s producers...