Ep 55: Jayanthi Viswanathan, Keith De La Rue (September 21, 2012; originally aired Otober 15, 2010)

Rounds: Here.


Jayanthi Viswanathan is back, getting her first turn in the champion's seat.  Richard mentions that Jayanthi loves to travel and asks her about her favourite destination.  Jayanthi responds that the place she has been to most is India; the more she goes, the more she discovers about the country and where she came from, and she thinks that is really important.

Tonight's challenger is Keith De La Rue, a knowledge management consultant with a degree in applied science.  Keith travels the world as a keynote speaker, but Richard wants to know what knowledge management is.  Keith explains that organisations depend a lot on what people know, and knowledge management is about enabling that knowledge to be shared so that the whole organisation can benefit from it.


Jayanthi got out to an early lead, outdoing Keith in the first three rounds to be ahead by twenty points at the first break.  That was too much to overcome, in the end; Keith managed to match her in the second third of the game, but the final letters round ensured her victory.  Keith got the consolation prize of solving the conundrum, but Jayanthi got the win, 56 to 39.

I was in rather spotty form, struggling with a few letters rounds.  Twice I saw the best option with only a second left on the clock and not enough time to get it written down; that was frustrating.  The words were in my grasp, but not quite fast enough.  There was a minor consolation in finding one longer word than David, and aside from the first two rounds it was a pretty satisfactory game.