"I get up, I make a coffee, I go on the computer and I do quizzes. I take a break for lunch and then get back on the computer for more quizzes, he says. It sounds like an illness, and others may diagnose it as that, but I am that obsessed. It's not an exaggeration to say I treat it as an eight-hour job a full-time day. Schultz is Australia's #1 ranked quizzer, the name for the people who take trivia very seriously."
"For about six weeks a year, Schultz films the Channel 7 show The Chase Australia, where he serves as one of the quizshow's chasers the experts whom contestants must topple if they want to take home the prize money (his nickname on the show, fittingly, is The Supernerd). The rest of the time, he's just brushing up on his African capitals, AFL drafts or Academy Award winners."
Issa Schultz follows a daily routine centered on quizzing: coffee, computer-based quizzes, a lunch break, then more quizzes, which he treats as an eight-hour, full-time day. He is Australia's #1 ranked quizzer and structures his life around the hobby. For about six weeks annually he films The Chase Australia as a chaser nicknamed The Supernerd; the remainder of the year he studies topics like African capitals, AFL drafts and Academy Award winners. Schultz is single with few responsibilities, enabling intense practice. Quizzing is a global pursuit that demands far greater obscurity and difficulty than pub trivia.
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