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From the Ted Talk by Ken Jennings: Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all

Unscramble the Blue Letters


And I can't complain about this. I feel like that was always sort of my destiny, although I had for many years been petrty deeply in the trivia closet. If nothing else, you realize very qikcluy as a teenager, it is not a hit with girls to know Captain Kirk's mddlie name. (Laughter) And as a result, I was sort of the deeply closeted kind of know-it-all for many years. But if you go further back, if you look at it, it's all there. I was the kind of kid who was always bugging Mom and Dad with whatever great fact I had just read about — Haley's coemt or ginat sqiuds or the size of the world's biggest pumpkin pie or whatever it was. I now have a 10-year-old of my own who's exactly the same. And I know how deeply annoying it is, so karma does work. (Laughter)

Open Cloze


And I can't complain about this. I feel like that was always sort of my destiny, although I had for many years been ______ deeply in the trivia closet. If nothing else, you realize very _______ as a teenager, it is not a hit with girls to know Captain Kirk's ______ name. (Laughter) And as a result, I was sort of the deeply closeted kind of know-it-all for many years. But if you go further back, if you look at it, it's all there. I was the kind of kid who was always bugging Mom and Dad with whatever great fact I had just read about — Haley's _____ or _____ ______ or the size of the world's biggest pumpkin pie or whatever it was. I now have a 10-year-old of my own who's exactly the same. And I know how deeply annoying it is, so karma does work. (Laughter)

Solution


  1. middle
  2. squids
  3. comet
  4. pretty
  5. quickly
  6. giant

Original Text


And I can't complain about this. I feel like that was always sort of my destiny, although I had for many years been pretty deeply in the trivia closet. If nothing else, you realize very quickly as a teenager, it is not a hit with girls to know Captain Kirk's middle name. (Laughter) And as a result, I was sort of the deeply closeted kind of know-it-all for many years. But if you go further back, if you look at it, it's all there. I was the kind of kid who was always bugging Mom and Dad with whatever great fact I had just read about — Haley's comet or giant squids or the size of the world's biggest pumpkin pie or whatever it was. I now have a 10-year-old of my own who's exactly the same. And I know how deeply annoying it is, so karma does work. (Laughter)

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
game shows 4
real life 3
show contestant 2
scatter chart 2
line coming 2
golden age 2
human information 2


Important Words


  1. annoying
  2. biggest
  3. bugging
  4. captain
  5. closet
  6. closeted
  7. comet
  8. complain
  9. dad
  10. deeply
  11. destiny
  12. fact
  13. feel
  14. giant
  15. girls
  16. great
  17. hit
  18. karma
  19. kid
  20. kind
  21. laughter
  22. middle
  23. mom
  24. pie
  25. pretty
  26. pumpkin
  27. quickly
  28. read
  29. realize
  30. result
  31. size
  32. sort
  33. squids
  34. teenager
  35. trivia
  36. work
  37. years