"Confessions of a 'Jeopardy!' champion": Anderson Cooper

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CNN: Confessions of a 'Jeopardy!' champion
By Anderson Cooper

Editor's note: Anderson Cooper anchors CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360°," which airs weeknights at 7 p.m. ET. He also is a regular contributor for Details Magazine. This article was published in the June-July 2004 issue.


....They tape a week's worth of shows in just one day, and by the time I got to the set Tucker Carlson had already creamed Bob Woodward and Peggy Noonan. The green room was abuzz because Woodward had missed a question about Watergate.

Al Franken had also beaten MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and CBS's Gretchen Carlson....

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I heard them say my name, saw myself wave, saw the buzzer in my hand -- but it all felt as if it were happening to someone else....

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I tried to read the clues faster than Trebek did, so when he finished I was ready. I'd wait a beat. Buzz. He kept calling my name....

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By the commercial, I was up thousands (for the American Heart Association). "Does this buzzer work?" (Kweisi) Mfume asked jokingly....


http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/16/jeopardy/index.html