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Ken Jennings Biography

Kenneth Wayne Jennings III (born May 23, 1974) is an American game show contestant and author. Jennings holds the record for the longest winning streak on the U.S. syndicated game show Jeopardy! and as being the second highest-earning contestant in game show history. In 2004, Jennings won 74 Jeopardy! games (in a row) before he was defeated by challenger Nancy Zerg on his 75th appearance. His total earnings on Jeopardy! are $3,196,300, consisting of $2,520,700 over his 74 wins, a $2,000 second-place prize in his 75th appearance, a $500,000 second-place prize in the Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions, a $100,000 win for second-place prize in the Jeopardy Battle of the Decades, as well as half of a $300,000 prize in the IBM Challenge, when he competed against Watson.

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I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.

Delaware, Hours, Maps, Stare

If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true.

Being True, Gotta, Ifs, Internet, True

People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often as simple as a piece of Tupperware hidden in the woods. You go to a website, you get the latitude and longitude to get the specific location of a certain specific hiding space, and then you go there and see if you can find it.

Gps, Latitude, Longitude, Simple, Space

I threw the opening pitch at a Blue Jays game, and after the pitch, the mascot asked me if I wanted him to sign the game ball, which I thought was funny. What would he write? "Best Wishes, Some Guy in a Bird Suit"?"

Blue, Games, Guy, Opening, Wishes, Writing

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.

Looks, Map, Maps, Our World, Wall, Way

It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.

Boring, Guy, Rooting, Same, Winning

I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

Cities, City, Library, Sense, Small, Smell

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.

Nerd, Pay, Pays, Sometimes

I can't relax and sink back in the couch and watch 'Jeopardy!' the way I used to.

Back, Couch, Relax, Watches, Way

For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.

Devoted, Kids, Reason

I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.

Geographic, Illiteracy, Kids, Lifetime

We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.

Anywhere, Century, Cities, Drive, Realizing

The thing you like
are good at is a sacred thing.

Good, Sacred, Sacred Things, Thing, Things You Like

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics. ' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

Boards, Old, Physics, Plain, Poetry, Watches

Sure I have a cell-phone, so I don't have to remember everyone's number anymore, but that really wasn't a core part of my brain.

Anymore, Cells, Number, Numbers, Part, Phones

If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.

Car, Littles, Navigation, Screwed, Talking

I have always loved maps.

Loved, Maps

When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all in Google somewhere, you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment.

Brain, Decision, Fingertips, Google, Moment

There’s just something hypnotic about maps.

Hypnotic, Maps

You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.

America, Exotic Places, Know, Live, Want

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