11 things no one tells you about competing on Jeopardy!

I was a two-day Jeopardy! champ. Here's what I learned.

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"Did you win?"

That's the first thing everyone asked me after I finished taping my episodes of Jeopardy!. That or "How much did you win?" (For the record, I won two episodes that aired this week before getting bounced in my third, and made a cool $38,801.)

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Terri is a freelance writer at TheWeek.com. She's a graduate of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism and has worked at TIME and Brides. You can follow her on Twitter.