What Is Jeopardy!'?

"What's a lot?"

"A lot."

The questions appeared on a TV monitor as Trebek's disembodied voice read along. I felt as if I were taking a midterm in a class I'd forgotten to attend.

"What is the only female animal that has antlers?"

"Who wrote the novel on which Carmen is based?"

"What's the name of Isaac Newton's dog?"

Right about then I drifted off. I was shaken from my reverie by Floyd. "It's all over now. Baby Blue," he hissed. Dylan again. Floyd passed me his sheet. Every blank was filled in; some answers were even annotated.

I looked down at my own sheet. The doodling along the margins suggested a convention of M&M's. I didn't even bother to stick around for the results.

I began feeling a little hungry. Thinking of M&M's has that effect on me. I walked to the Mexican cantina across the street.

"What is a panucho?" I asked the waitress.