text=NOAH TARNOW is the Big Quiz Thing's quizmaster, producer, and writer: It is his cluttered mind from which the BQT's trivia springs. He's been called "a geek savant" (Gawker) and an "impish impresario" (Citysearch). He's hosted quiz events both major and minor throughout the city and around the country, and was a contestant on both the VH1 game show Name That Video (champion-won a car) and Jeopardy! (second place-curse you, Trebek!). Elsewhere and elsewhen, he's the chief copy editor for Time Out New York, a sometime writer whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone and Jane, a stand-up comedian, and a karaoke singer of stunning ferocity.