My guest today, Victoria Gross, is likely the world's greatest trivia quizzer, the

very mention of her name since waves of panic through her competitors.

She's not as high profile as past Jeopardy Champion and Jeopardy host Ken Jennings, but

like Ken, she's parlayed trivia greatness into her own TV gig on ABC's The Chase.

As far as I've concerned, I have the best shot in trivia.

Welcome to People I Mostly Admire with Steve Levin.

How does someone become world-class of trivia?

Or maybe a better question is, why would someone want to become world-class of trivia?

And how can knitting be used as a form of intimidation?

Hopefully, I can get Victoria Gross, the queen of trivia to answer those questions and

many more.

We certainly have had remarkable success in trivia competitions the last few years.

In the world quizzing championship, you finished third and seventh in the Learned League

Championship, which is the biggest US-based trivia league with over 25,000 competitors.

You are one of only two people who finished in the top ten three years in a row.

So I suspect there are some people out there who are blown away by these achievements,

and I suspect there's a much larger group saying themselves, I didn't even realize there's

a subculture of adults who obsessed with competitive trivia.

There's a knitting writer I like who once described herself as being a very big name in

some very small rooms.

I think that's an excellent description of this community.

So like any hyper competitive activity, there's a standard path to becoming elite from a

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