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What’s in a label? A lot, as it happens. Enough to induce litigation, like that of the California attorney general against a school district over its new policy requiring employees

The Halifax-born trivia expert and host of The Backbench podcast reviews three memoirs: Joan Didion's Where I Was From, Emma Healey's Best Young Women Job Book and Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart.

On this date in 2004, "Jeopardy!" contestant Ken Jennings finally lost, after winning a record 74 consecutive games and more than $2.5 million. The next five longest win streaks after Jennings' run include:1) Amy Schneider, a software engineer who had been voted "Most likely to appear on Jeopardy!"

In the Jeopardy masters structure,  six competitors play and get the chance to participate in Game 3, and then in the finale, winner gets the prize of $500,0000.

Many of Jeopardy!''s most successful contestants, including James Holzhauer, have adopted the effective but irritating "Forrest Bounce"

Podcast critic Nicholas Quah, policy expert Vass Bednar and podcast host Mattea Roach talk about how the podcasting industry, both in Canada and abroad, has reacted to the CRTC’s first step in implementing the Online Streaming Act.

Jeopardy super-champion Amy Schneider had kind words for Ken Jennings as a host and supported his claims that hosting is harder than it looks.

Find out what the champ shared with this hopeful.

As the three most recent Jeopardy contestants from Metro Vancouver that I knew of, I thought it would be fun to gather them together so they could talk about their experience. I thought it would be fun to learn some of their secrets. 

Aug. 31 is We Love Memoirs Day. So celebrate with a good book!