Formerly "Neil Stone Updates"

Friday, July 30, 2010

The Making of a Champion

Here's a little advice for game show wanna be's:
1.  Glean information where ever you can get it.  You'd be surprised what you can learn in a discussion with the family pet.

 2.  Get some hands-on experience in as many categories as possible--like "pastries".

3.  Yes, even sports.

4.  Consult with experts on how to look poised under pressure.

5.  Practice your on-stage bantering skills.

6.  It doesn't hurt to practice early for writing your name on the podium screen.

7.  And last of all, read...

read...

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and read some more.

Many thanks to all who shared in the Jeopardy! excitement with us.  We had so much fun watching Alison shine.  You can read about her experience on the "Winners' Blog" here.  If the next champion's blog gets posted here, you may have to look Alison up in the drop-down archives menu on the left--she would be July 26.

Congratulations, Alison!


4 comments:

Trinyan Mariano said...

We LOVED seeing Alison compete on Jeopardy. She was perfect to our minds, winning or losing (though 3 out of 4 means mostly winning!)

We also loved this blog post with all the photos documenting her "preparation." It's pretty obvious where Alison gets her brilliance from (and I don't mean the cat).

Polly said...

This is the cutest post!! I love all the pictures, they are darling.Thanks for putting this together, it was really cute.

Debbie C said...

Wow! I haven't checked since your Mr. McGregor post and have missed what seems to have been a couple of GREAT weeks! Happy birthday to the boys and congrats to Alison! As usual, your blog brought tears to my eyes!

Alison + Brandon said...

Awesome pictures! It was especially fun to see the guest appearances by Archie and Ruby Jean.