text: Jasmine Thompson attends Davenport Elementary School. When she walked into the classroom today, she realized she had forgotten about the geography quiz. She begins to panic as the paper is placed in front of her on the desk. She is a perfectionist and must get all of them right. Jasmine is relieved as she goes over the questions because she remembers much of what was on the quiz. What is Maine's capital? What country is located to the south of the United States? Jasmine breezes through the 10-question quiz and hands it into her teacher, Mr. Colson. Mr. Colson was grading geography quizzes that night while watching the news on television. He arrives at Jasmine's quiz and examines her answers quickly. He is surprised when she gets question number 10 wrong, "what is the tallest mountain in the world?" "Sorry, Jasmine, Mount McKinley is not the tallest mountain in the world; Mount Everest is," Mr. Colson says to himself. A breaking news banner flashed over the TV that Mr. Colson was watching as he was ready to place the quiz in the completed pile. "We have some breaking news this afternoon: seismic activity in Alaska has caused Mount McKinley, also known as Denali, to rise 10,000 feet in elevation. Mount McKinley has now surpassed Mount Everest in height due to this seismic event, and it is now the tallest mountain in the world." Mr. Colson pulls Jasmine's quiz from the stack, looks at question number 10, and changes it from incorrect to correct. He knows Jasmine will be surprised and happy when she sees her quiz tomorrow. Mr. Colson considers Jasmine's answer a fluke and prepares tomorrow's science quiz. Little does he know that Jasmine will get another question wrong on the science quiz. What team of scientists discovered the double helix structure of DNA? "Lewis and Clark," Jasmine answers. The correct answer is "Watson and Crick." At the end of the day, another teacher enters Mr. Colson's room and informs him that they have located Lewis and Clark's missing journals. The lost journals discuss double-helix DNA, right down to its molecular structure. "The explorers are said to have discovered the double helix DNA structure 150 years before Watson and Crick!" "It's not possible!" Mr. Carlson looks at Jasmine's quiz, and lo and behold, Jasmine's answer is now correct. When Jasmine gets a quiz question wrong, reality corrects itself such that she gets the question right. Mr. Colson decided to put this to the test, so on tomorrow's Shakespeare quiz, he poses a question that none of his students will know: "In the play Romeo and Juliet, who is Juliet's cousin?" The answer is Tybalt, but the students wouldn't know that because they haven't read it yet. Every student in the class, including Jasmine, failed to answer Tybalt on the quiz, just as he had predicted. Mr. Carlson waits, remembering that the Mount McKinley transformation did not occur until he graded the quizzes. He takes out the quizzes to grade them; he immediately turns to Jasmine's; her answer is, Franklin. Mr. Colson shakes his head, filled with skepticism. How will reality change for this to happen? He marks the answer wrong, then takes out his cell phone and waits. Refresh, refresh, and refresh on the news website that he uses. All of a sudden, there it is: "Historians have discovered an alternative text to Romeo and Juliet; the only difference they see is that Shakespeare had not yet come up with the name of Tybalt, inserting the more modern Franklin in its place." He can't believe his eyes; this proved it once and for all, whenever Jasmine puts for an answer on a quiz becomes a reality. In tomorrow's quiz, Mr. Colson has asked, "Who is the richest man in the world?". Jasmine raised her hand during the quiz and asked, "We never studied this in class?" "That's OK. Just put in Brian Colson, and you'll get it right." "But you're not the richest man in the world; it's Jeff Bezos?" "OK, this is a bonus question; I won't count it against you as long as you put my name." When the quizzes are returned, he sees that Jasmine entered his name for that question. As soon as the students had gone to lunch, he got out the quizzes and scored Jasmine's, marking it incorrectly and waiting. He stayed up until 12:30 a.m., hoping for something to change, but nothing did. Concerned, his wife came down to the living room where he was waiting on his phone, and he told her about the strange situation with a student in his class. After she looked at him like he was insane, but wanting to go to bed, she pretended to support his crazy idea. "What if she needs to believe it for reality to change? You told me she already knew you weren't the richest man in the world?" "Makes sense, so it must be something fresh I taught her. Any ideas?" "The Super Bowl is this Sunday; how about asking who will win?" "You're brilliant!" Mr. Colson tells his students that the Rams will win the Super Bowl during class. He teaches it like an actual lesson giving bulleted notes and sound reasoning. Despite a few arguments from the boys in the class, the class took his word for it. On this question, Jasmine has circled the Rams to win the Super Bowl. When school was out on that Friday afternoon, Mr. Colson went straight down to the casino to place $100 on the Rams to win. He wanted to bet more, but he figured there would be time for that if she could predict the winner. He won! On Monday, though, he was called to the principal's office. "Can you explain why you chose to teach about sports rather than the curriculum?" Mr. Colson was startled but was let off the hook when he promised never to do it again. He was disappointed he had to toss away his NBA lesson for today, but he decided that perhaps something good could come from this. He taught about how the world was at peace. For the first time in human history, he told the students that there was no war and no one was killed in battle. He asked the quiz question, "Is there world peace?" Jasmine responded with the answer she was taught, yes. The major news that night was that everyone had called off all wars. He told his wife, who was completely taken aback. His wife was now a true believer and wanted to seize the opportunity. "How about you teach the class that a woman named Marilyn Colson received $10 million dollars she had no idea existed?" He told students the next day about a woman named Marilyn Colson, giving them her address and other identifiers, who had received $10 million dollars out of nowhere. He asked on the quiz, "What was the name of the woman who unexpectedly received ten million dollars?" To answer the question, Jasmine gave Mr. Colson's wife's name. Mr. Colson felt a rush of exhilaration as he drove home that afternoon, knowing that this could all come true. He was so engrossed that he failed to notice the truck crossing the median. The truck collided with Mr. Colson's car, and he died immediately. Her husband's death saddened his wife. The next day she found out he had a life insurance policy that she didn't know about; it was worth $10 million dollars.