Lynn Abbey Quotes

I think I'm a trivia nerd. I love to learn about everything. I'm curious.

God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

I love anything quiz related.

I think when I started to write 'The Mysterious Benedict Society' that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that.

I've been working on 'The New York Times' crossword puzzle on the subway. I can make it until about Wednesday.

Our whole life is solving puzzles.

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing is the key ingredient that makes 'Jeopardy!' so great.

Never leave a crossword unfinished.

It's easy to get good table talk going if you have a little help in the form of questions, games, newspaper articles, books with fun statistics, things like that.

'The Da Vinci Code' and films of that nature are the ones that I really enjoy because you are learning and working out riddles as you go along.

Basically, I'm a bit of a nerd and I've always wanted to solve a Rubik's Cube.

Word games are very easy for me.

I play along with 'Pointless' and I love 'The Chase.' I'm not bad either - geography, biology and history are my strong points.

Biffy didn't like enigmas - they were out of fashion.

When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?

Every time I see Dan Quayle I feel like buying a vowel.

Lucy Fry and I became very good friends on the set…I called her ‘Royal Higness’ & she answered, ‘Yes, my Guardian.

I'm such a goofball - I need someone who can make fun of me.

I was just kidding, shuck-face," Minho said. "Let's all go over there. She could have an army of psycho girl ninjas hiding in that shack of hers." "Psycho girl ninjas?" Newt repeated, his voice showing he was surprised, if not annoyed, by Minho's additude.

The thing about Donald [Trump] is the jokes write themselves. I don't even think of it to be trolling. What he says is the joke.

My favorite people to have fun with are police officers 'cause they're so serious, you know.

I was in my friends garage, and he had; a kite, a yo-yo, and a boomerang. I was like "Dude, you have abandonment issues"

Wheel of Fortune was an important SAT prep for me.