I am the Director of the Lawrence Jacobsen Library at the Wisconsin Primate Research Center where have an audiovisual collection which currently houses more than 16,000 images and 1,000 videotapes about nonhuman primates. Have a look at the catalog of primate videos available for loan from the WPRC Library.

Over the past 29 years, I have written trivia quizzes for a variety of live shows, publications, and web sites. From 1996-2001, I served as the trivia master for the New York Times Trivia Quiz. An archive of quizzes covering a wide range of subject matter is still available on the New York Times site. I also post my Question of the Day Monday through Friday to a mailing list of almost 300 players.

As a member of the powerhouse team, Network, I have been a 16-time winner of the World's Largest Media Trivia Contest in Stevens Point, WI. I was also a member of the winning team at the University of Colorado National Trivia Bowl in 1986 and have been elected to the Trivia Bowl Hall of Fame.

I have had more than 1,900 crossword puzzles published in such publications as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Games Magazine, New York Sun, CrosSynergy, Newsday, Simon and Schuster Crossword Puzzle Books, and Dell Champion Crosswords. I am the co-author of "Challenging 30-Minute Crosswords" and one of the writers for the "Star Trek Crosswords" series.

You can find a selected list of my publications listed on my writing resume. You can also read more about me in this Isthmus article.



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Some of my favorite sites:

  1. Ray's Question of the Day
  2. Internet Movie Database
  3. All-Music Guide
  4. Cruciverb.com (Crossword puzzle discussion forum)
  5. Onelook Dictionaries
  6. Information Please
  7. PaperBackSwap.com
  8. Board Game Geek
  9. The Madison Wordplayers
  10. Ken Jennings: Confessions of a Trivial Mind
  11. Netflix
  12. Goodreads
  13. Primate Info Net



You can reach me at: hamel@primate.wisc.edu
URL: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/people/hamel/index.html
Last updated May 6, 2008.