Michael, grinning, spoke to the camera: "Today, the crew from Jeopardy – America's favourite quiz show, by the way – are coming to our office to host a game. Of course, it's sponsored by corporate. I think they want to show the nation that Dunder-Mifflin has the biggest brains behind the desks of our office. Well, everyone except Toby. I think he might have failed an IQ test once."

With the camera following him, Michael entered the conference room, where he had assembled the employees of the Scranton branch. "Okay everyone, the Sony crew will be here in half an hour to film the Dunder-Mifflin edition of Jeopardy. Now, before they arrive, you will have to know a lot about a lot of things. I'm not told what topics they have, but I gather they're pretty brainy. I'm allowing everyone to use Wikipedia for 30 minutes to brush up on their skills."

"But Wikipedia isn't the most reliable source of information," Toby objected.

"Toby, did I ask you to offer your pearls of wisdom?" Michael snapped. "Clearly, I didn't, so could you please not ruin this experience for everyone?" Toby didn't speak for a while after that.

"Now, before I was so rudely interrupted" – Michael gave Toby the stink eye – "you are to use the next 30 minutes as research time. Off you go!"

After a frankly unproductive "research time", the Jeopardy crew arrived at reception, including Alex Trebek. "Ah, Alex, welcome to our humble abode," greeted Michael. I mean, it's an office, but you know, it's an abode all the same. I'd better rally the troops

"Oh, it's no problem – we have to get the set ready. We'll tell you when we're done. Your troops are fine."

"Are you sure? I can get Kevin over there to help. He could use the energy." He pointed at Kevin Malone, one of the accountants, as he spoke.

"No, we're quite fine on our end," Alex said, staring at Michael a little. Then he went off with the camera crew to set up.

"I win every game of Jeopardy on television," Dwight explained to the camera. "I don't actually win in real life, of course. I use my highly intelligent mind to correctly guess the answers to the clues. Schrutes are renowned thinkers."

"Dwight, are you sure you have to memorise all the countries of Africa?" Jim asked in an irritated manner. Dwight was mumbling what seemed like names of countries.

"Jim, this is important," he replied snootily. "I want to show the other branches that ours has the mental capacity of a thousand supercomputers."

Jim smirked and returned to Wikipedia's article on panthers.

"I have a feeling the combined intelligence of the office would power an Apple II. I'm being serious," Jim confessed to the camera. "But, our combined procrastination would probably power an Alienware laptop. So there's that."

Alex Trebek eventually emerged from the warehouse. He came to the main office and simply stood there, waiting. All eyes instantly turned to him when he casually coughed.

"We're about to start taping," he explained. "If any of you consider yourselves geniuses, you're welcome to join. There can only be 3 contestants, I'm afraid. Good luck."

"Deciding who will represent our branch is sort of like choosing between John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix or Bono to represent the world's greatest songwriter – they're all brilliant. Toby, of course, is the exception. Even if he got on the show, he'd probably end up with negative 200 dollars."

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