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Drew Basile @DrewBasile45

Oxford | Penn | Jeopardy | Survivor 45 | "Dollar Tree Aristotle"

Joined September 2023
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Drew Basile
@DrewBasile45
May 28
Wrote about being on TV, being unemployed & the world of competitive quiz for @thebafflermag. Link below!👇 👇
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Going to UChicago in the fall
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Philadelphia in the summer is like living inside a microwave
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we've lost the sacred texts
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Jun 3
Looking at @Polymarket's front page, and just have zero idea what sports or sports leagues these are. Curious if any followers recognize these team names without having to Google. If I had to guess, maybe some non-NFL pro football league?
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Some of my finest work in Harper’s Weekly Review today. harpers.org/2026/06/weekly-r…
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Knowing Italian Brainrot: unfortunately not enough to win IQC. Read more abt trivia’s toughest comp in The Baffler (courtesy of me)
The Baffler@thebafflermag
Jun 1
In the spring of 2024, @DrewBasile45 won $132,000 on “Jeopardy!” That didn’t necessarily make him a shoe-in at the International Quizzing Championships, where trivia’s best and brightest answer questions that get harder and more obscure by the year. thebaffler.com/latest/the-lo…
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Every line of dialogue in Backrooms was written by ChatGPT
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Rereading Shklovsky today. Russian Formalism always strikes me as a response to the patchy & uneven conditions of industrialization in Russia: the text as a machinic combination of devices, with no other end (yet) than the ‘making strange’ of habitual life.
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Drew Basile
@DrewBasile45
May 28
Wrote about being on TV, being unemployed & the world of competitive quiz for @thebafflermag. Link below!👇 👇
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Wrote about being on TV, being unemployed & the world of competitive quiz for @thebafflermag. Link below!👇 👇
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Link: thebaffler.com/latest/the-lo…

The Loneliness of the Competitive Quizzer | Drew Basile

Quiz is many things to the disciple. It is not simply trivia. It is not simply a hobby. It verges, for the believer, on a way of life.

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Mentioned in the NYT today (and by Junot Díaz no less)!
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Great review nybooks.com/articles/2026/05…

What Happened in Vegas | Charlie Lee

An impulsive trip to America’s “idiot Disneyland” thrust John Gregory Dunne among characters who, like him, sought distraction from their private miseries.

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the heart@Fredward3948576
Apr 23
Critics are calling my most recent act of folly a “return to form”
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Grok, it’s dark in here
Drew Basile
@DrewBasile45
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Claude, what happens when I die
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Claude, what happens when I die
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My girlfriend hates My Method (lying in bed until 5 minutes before we go to the airport)
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in the middle of unc cs, one of my friend's quietly said "14 year old me hits that" and it made me deeply sad
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What I read this month (March)
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An unfortunate media reminder that 2021-2022 might’ve been the last period to jump aboard
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Everyone who works in Hollywood feels like they're enduring an economic depression. We proved it with data. The collapse of entertainment industry employment in five charts. wsj.com/business/media/see-h…
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Truly astounding how bad the AI integration in Microsoft Word is. I’m going back to Libre man
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