Ken Jennings

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May 23, 1974 in The United States

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Kenneth Wayne Jennings III (born May 23, 1974) holds the record for the longest winning streak on the U.S. syndicated game show Jeopardy! Jennings won 74 games before he was defeated by challenger Nancy Zerg on his 75th appearance. His total earnings on Jeopardy! are US$3,022,700 ($2,520,700 in winnings, a $2,000 consolation prize on his 75th appearance, and $500,000 in the Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions). Jennings held the record for most winnings on any game show ever played until the end of the Ultimate Tournament of Champions (first aired on May 25, 2005), when he was displaced by Brad Rutter, who defeated Jennings in that tournament.

After winning, he began working on a book, Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive,...more

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Books by Ken Jennings

Average rating: 3.85 · 1,948 ratings · 461 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks 3.89 avg rating — 1,048 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Brainiac: Adventures In The Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World Of Trivia Buffs 3.80 avg rating — 857 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac: 8,888 Questions in 365 Days 4.21 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Greater Goal: Connecting Purpose and Performance by Ken Jennings, Heather Hyde, Ken Blanchard (Foreword) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	My rating:
	Don't Look in the Microwave!: The Truth About Your Parents' 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Don't Look in the Microwave!: The Truth About Your Parents' Direst Warnings 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Colossal Book of Wordplay by Martin Gardner, Ken Jennings 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:

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“After all, we're currently living in a Bizarro society where teenagers are technology-obsessed, where the biggest sellers in every bookstores are fantasy novels about a boy wizard, and the blockbuster hit movies are all full of hobbits and elves or 1960s spandex superheroes. You don't have to go to a Star Trek convention to find geeks anymore. Today, almost everyone is an obsessive, well-informed aficionado of something. Pick your cult: there are food geeks and fashion geeks and Desperate Housewives geeks and David Mamet geeks and fantasy sports geeks. The list is endless. And since everyone today is some kind of trivia geek or other, there's not even a stigma anymore. Trivia is mainstream. "Nerd" is the new "cool.”
― Ken Jennings, Brainiac: Adventures In The Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World Of Trivia Buffs

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“There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls to us, won’t let us look anywhere else in the room if there’s a map on the wall.”
― Ken Jennings

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“What are those bulb things you're slicing?"
"You've never seen fennel? It looks like celery and tastes like licorice.”
― Ken Jennings, Brainiac: Adventures In The Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World Of Trivia Buffs

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