Today's episode is an encore presentation of my conversation with Victoria Gross.

It's part of an ongoing series for playing some of my all-time favorite episodes.

Victoria Gross is the world's greatest trivia quizer.

And she is having a year to remember, first she won the inaugural Jeopardy Invitational Tournament, and that earned her a spot in the Jeopardy Masters Tournament, which she also won collecting $500,000 in prize money.

Not only that, she won the World Quizing Championship, the marquee competition for

hardcore quizzes. After meeting Victoria, I was inspired to try to get good at trivia myself

using her learning strategies.

I've been trying pretty hard the last few years, even competing against her in a few

competitions.

And oh my God, it was so humiliating the gap between the top quizzers and people like me is so big. You can't believe it.

But still, even getting trounced by Victoria, it's impossible not to like her.

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

the very mention of her name sends 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'm concerned, I have the best shot in trivia.

Welcome to people I mostly admire with Steve Leavitt.

How does someone become world-class at trivia? Or maybe a better question is why

would someone want to become world-class at trivia? And how can knitting be used as

a form of intimidation? Hopefully I can give 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

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