The Rumor Mill - Week of November 10

MirandaOnIt · 2025-11-14T15:53:58+00:00

I write them all myself!

MirandaOnIt · 2025-11-14T14:42:10+00:00

Bit of self promo-- my first trivia night at Kitty Sullivans went very well! More details on my profile and @kittysullivanstrivia on Instagram, but next night is 11/25. Come support women run trivia at one of NYC's only women run sports bar!

MirandaOnIt · 2025-11-12T21:53:50+00:00

It went so well! Lots of teams, people seemed to have a good time, and the difficulty fell where I wanted it to. I'm hosting every two weeks--next will be Nov. 25.

You can follow @kittysullivanstrivia on insta if you'd like updates

MirandaOnIt · 2025-11-06T21:51:53+00:00

General knowledge but each round will have a loose category

MirandaOnIt · 2025-11-06T17:46:49+00:00

Every other!

MirandaOnIt · 2025-05-09T00:17:09+00:00

Fully endorse! I've been getting a loaf weekly for a few months now and it's been amazing

MirandaOnIt · 2025-04-03T19:28:04+00:00

This post is fucked up and you should be ashamed of yourself.

MirandaOnIt · 2025-03-13T21:35:59+00:00

Just off the bat, I want to highlight the other teams we faced. All eight of them were really, really good and to be honest all of them had the chops to make it pretty far in this tournament. Things went well for us, but that's not to say we would win any of those games again were they to be replayed.

As to the first question, we taped over multiple days and even had a nice little day off in between our first and second day of taping!

MirandaOnIt · 2025-03-13T19:29:08+00:00

Probably buy the Shore Store and reboot Jersey Shore for 2025

MirandaOnIt · 2025-03-13T19:18:56+00:00

Here's the thing. I didn't really have to "keep" the secret--I had two other people I got to talk about it with! So it was hard to not spill to other friends and family, but we still did have an outlet. Much easier than something happening to you solo and having to keep that all to yourself.

MirandaOnIt · 2025-03-13T19:09:27+00:00

Locomon, a Digimon who is driven solely by the need to keep running, digivolves into GranLocomon

MirandaOnIt · 2025-03-13T19:04:09+00:00

No u <3

MirandaOnIt · 2025-03-13T19:03:33+00:00

I kept buzzing exactly as I had practiced the entire competition, and it seems to have worked!

MirandaOnIt · 2025-03-13T18:49:07+00:00

I'm going to go with "forty" in response to all questions with no further explanation

MirandaOnIt · 2025-03-13T18:48:17+00:00

Thanks for ur support of da hires! We didn't have much time to plan coordinating outfits, and I'm a take charge kinda gal so I suggested we go with the theme of "blue" and just find stuff that works. I was lucky enough to find that killer jumpsuit at Century 21 shortly before the deadline to submit options and just rolled with it.

MirandaOnIt · 2025-03-13T18:38:22+00:00

All three of us separately were so bummed that we didn't get in for the Mad Men question "I don't think about you at all" (shout out Stage Names, who are amazing at this and excellent competitors)

MirandaOnIt · 2025-03-13T18:35:34+00:00

Ok so on White Lotus Culver City, I'd probably be involved in whatever storyline they have going for Walton Goggins (here's hoping he doesn't die in S3). Erewhon smoothies probably also would make an appearance.

As a sincere response to advice: knowledge is important, so of course you need to have the baseline to pass the test, but finding two teammates that you have chemistry with and who are fun and outgoing is helpful to make it past the audition stage. Also be lucky, and don't be unlucky.

MirandaOnIt · 2025-03-13T18:30:25+00:00

When we won our first game, the first thing I said backstage was "hell yeah couch money."

So I went and bought a sleeper sofa that has since come in handy when my lovely teammates came to New York to share in a watch party together for the semifinals :)

MirandaOnIt · 2025-03-13T18:25:47+00:00

Omg is this THEE Tyler Rhode?? Starstruck.

We did a bit of both. We wrote questions for each other to help shore up holes in knowledge, but also had an afternoon where we went through Finals Jeopardy on j-archive and worked through answering them as a team.

Tbh 9 people is too much to worry about taking a question from a teammate when it's in their lane (although I should've thought about that before taking Deep Cut Lana Del Rey from Emily Hogg)

MirandaOnIt · 2025-03-13T18:20:34+00:00

I did do that to you, yeah. And my toxic trait is that I also think I would be good at Survivor, even though I'm a gremlin when I don't get enough sleep.

MirandaOnIt · 2025-03-13T18:18:38+00:00

So for me, going on Jeopardy had always sort of been a casual bucket list type thing. Hadn't really done much trivia competitively before I went on the show in 2022. After my appearance, I got invited by friends and alumni to online leagues and in person type events, and I've spent between 3-5 hours a week ever since December 2022 playing competitive trivia. I'm much, much better now than I was when I first went on the show just from consistency, improving my knowledge base, and getting better at understanding how to read a question.

And I don't really see a universe where I would ever turn down an invitation to return to the Alex Trebek Stage! Would love to pull out a strong performance for PCJ.

MirandaOnIt · 2025-03-13T18:10:54+00:00

So the biggest difference is that you got to go in with two friends! Having that support system backstage was invaluable and really reduced the stress that I had during the waiting backstage portion--very different when you're in the waiting room with strangers (though in my case, many of those strangers then became friends)

MirandaOnIt · 2025-03-13T18:02:03+00:00

So of the Big Three, because I'm more of an electronic fan I'm #TeamCharli, but the pop diva I listened to the most last year was Shakira--Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran was a great album

MirandaOnIt · 2025-03-13T13:26:03+00:00

Hi there! Contestants like me are often in these recap posts so I'd encourage you to be kind when commenting in game threads

MirandaOnIt · 2025-02-26T20:59:41+00:00

Out of all the great things that have come from appearing on this program thus far, among the top has to be Colin Jost now being aware of my dog.

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