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Mayim Bialik asks the questions on Jeopardy — but that doesn’t mean she thinks she could answer them.

In an interview with Bill Maher on his podcast Club Random, the Blossom and Big Bang Theory actress explained how she thinks she’d fare as a contestant on the game show.

“There’s a rhythm that winners get into – there’s a huge psychological component,” Bialik said. “If you get something wrong, it can be debilitating. I would cry, I think.”

Bialik made it clear that she’s not the one writing the questions on Jeopardy. “People ask if I know all that stuff, and I’m like, ‘no.’ No,” she said. “Answering things like that under pressure with a timer is not gonna happen for me. It’s hard!”

Tyler Golden/ABC via Getty Images Host Mayim Bialik on…

In the latest episode of the Inside Jeopardy! podcast, Jeopardy!‘s longtime producer, Sarah Whitcomb Foss, shared the advice she gave to Mayim Bialik when she first began hosting the show, and the ways they asked her to change.

Bialik was named one of the official hosts of Jeopardy! in 2022 alongside former super-champ Ken Jennings. It was a bit of a learning curve for both, but particularly for Bialik, who found it difficult to hide her astonishment at the contestants’ vast knowledge.

“I did not expect to enjoy watching while I’m up there as much as I do, and it’s hard not to get honestly starstruck by the contestants up here,” Bialik said…