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American game show contestant, host, and writer

This article is about the Jeopardy! champion. For other people named Ken Jennings, see Ken Jennings (disambiguation).

Ken Jennings
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Jennings in 2007
Born

Kenneth Wayne Jennings Three


(1974-05-23) May 23, 1974 (age 47)

Edmonds, Washington, U.Southward.
Alma mater Brigham Young University (BA, BS)
Occupation
  • Game bear witness contestant
  • game show host
  • television presenter
  • author
  • podcaster
Years active 2004–present
Known for
  • Holding the record for all-fourth dimension American game prove winnings
  • Having the longest Jeopardy! winning streak
Spouse(s)

Mindy Boam

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(m. )​
Children two
Website ken-jennings.com Edit this at Wikidata

Kenneth Wayne Jennings III [1] (born May 23, 1974) is an American game show contestant turned host, author, and telly presenter. He is the highest-earning American game show contestant, having won coin on 5 different game shows, including $four,522,700 on the U.S. game show Jeopardy! which he currently hosts, sharing duties with Mayim Bialik.[two] [3]

He holds the record for the longest winning streak on Jeopardy! with 74 consecutive wins. He also holds the record for the highest boilerplate correct responses per game in Jeopardy! history (for those contestants with at to the lowest degree 300 correct responses) with 35.9 during his original run (no other contestant has exceeded 30)[4] and 33.1 overall, including tournaments and special events.[v] In 2004, he won 74 consecutive Jeopardy! games before he was defeated by challenger Nancy Zerg on his 75th advent. His total earnings on Jeopardy! are $4,522,700, consisting of: $2,520,700 over his 74 wins; a $ii,000 2nd-place prize in his 75th advent; a $500,000 second-place prize in the Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions (2005); a $300,000 2nd-identify prize in Jeopardy! 'south IBM Challenge (2011), when he lost to the Watson figurer but became the start person to trounce third-place finisher Brad Rutter; a $100,000 second-identify prize in the Jeopardy! Battle of the Decades (2014); a $100,000 second-place prize (his share of his team's $300,000 prize) in the Jeopardy! All-Star Games (2019); and a $1 1000000 commencement-place prize in the Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time (2020).

During his starting time run of Jeopardy! appearances, Jennings earned the record for the highest American game show winnings. His total was surpassed past Rutter, who defeated Jennings in the finals of the Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions, adding $two million to Rutter's existing Jeopardy! winnings. Jennings regained the record after actualization on several other game shows, culminating with his results on an October 2008 appearance on Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, though Rutter retained the record for highest Jeopardy! winnings and once more passed Jennings' total after his victory in the Jeopardy! Boxing of the Decades tournament. In 2020, he one time once more faced off with and won against Rutter, besides equally James Holzhauer, in a special primetime series, Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time.[6]

Afterward his success on Jeopardy!, Jennings wrote most his experience and explored American trivia history and culture in his book Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive Earth of Trivia Buffs, published in 2006. In September 2020, he signed on as a consulting producer of Jeopardy!, a job that volition include an on-air office reading categories.[vii]

Following Alex Trebek's death on November 8, 2020, Jennings hosted Jeopardy! as the first of a series of guest hosts. His episodes aired from January 11, 2021, to Feb nineteen, 2021.[8] [9] Following Mike Richards' leave early in the 2021–22 season, Jennings and Mayim Bialik were both named hosts; Jennings' hosting duties are exclusive to the daily syndicated series (Bialik'southward duties also involve primetime network specials and syndicated serial episodes).[three] [x]

Early life [edit]

Jennings was born on May 23, 1974,[xi] in Edmonds, Washington, a suburb of Seattle.[12] [13] His begetter was a lawyer employed internationally, and Jennings spent xv years growing up in South Korea and Singapore where his father worked.[14]

Upon returning to the United States, Jennings attended the University of Washington. Following two years every bit a volunteer missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where he was assigned to serve in Madrid, Espana, he transferred to Brigham Young University in 1996. One of his roommates at BYU was author Brandon Sanderson.[15] He also played on the school'due south quizbowl team, at ane point serving as captain, and graduated in 2000 with a double major in English and computer science.[12]

Streak on Jeopardy! [edit]

Earlier 2003, Jeopardy! contestants were limited to five consecutive wins. At the beginning of the show's 20th flavour (in 2003), the rules were changed to allow contestants to remain on the evidence every bit long every bit they continued to win.[16] After this rule change, and until Jennings' run, the record winning streak was set by Tom Walsh, who won $186,900 in 8 games in Jan 2004.

Jennings' run began during Jeopardy! 's 20th season with the episode aired on June ii, 2004, in which he unseated ii-time returning champion Jerry Harvey, and continued into flavor 21. In that offset episode, Jennings' unabridged winning streak almost concluded before it even began. The Last Jeopardy answer was, "She's the offset female track & field athlete to win medals in five dissimilar events at a single Olympics." Jennings responded with "Who is Jones?" using only the final name of Marion Jones (who was not stripped of her medals until December 2007). Host Alex Trebek said, "We will accept that, in terms of female person athletes, there aren't that many." If the response had not been accepted, Jennings would have finished in third place, and challenger Julia Lazarus would have won the game. Jennings' run was interrupted by the off-flavor interruption (July until September), 2004 Kids' Week, the Tournament of Champions (aired from September 20, 2004, through Oct 1, 2004), the 2004 United States presidential election (aired on Tuesday, Nov 2, 2004, pushing his weeks of episodes to air from Wednesday to Saturday) and the College Championship (aired from November ten, 2004, to November 23, 2004). Every bit a result, he went the entire five months without a loss. He did not participate in the Tournament of Champions, as invitations are extended only to champions who have been defeated (with the exception of the winner[s] of the College Championship).

Cease of the streak [edit]

On Nov 30, 2004, Jennings' reign as Jeopardy! champion ended when he lost his 75th game to challenger Nancy Zerg.[17] Jennings responded incorrectly to both Double Jeopardy! Daily Doubles, causing him to lose a combined $10,200 ($v,400 and $four,800, respectively) and leaving him with $14,400 at the end of the round. As a result, for only the tenth time in 75 games, Jennings did not have an insurmountable atomic number 82 going into the Final Jeopardy! round.[xviii] Only Jennings and Zerg, who ended Double Jeopardy! with $x,000, were able to play Terminal Jeopardy! as third-place contestant David Hankins failed to finish with a positive score after Double Jeopardy!

The Final Jeopardy! category was Business organization & Industry, and the clue was "Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year." Jennings appeared perplexed during the time allowed to write a response, while Zerg finished her response quickly. Zerg responded correctly with "What is H&R Cake?" and wagered $4,401 of her $ten,000, giving her a $1 lead over Jennings with his response nevertheless to be revealed. Jennings incorrectly responded with "What is FedEx?" and lost the game with a last score of $viii,799 after his $5,601 wager was deducted from his score. After his response was revealed to be incorrect, the audition audibly gasped, and Nancy was shocked later on finding out that she won. He was awarded $2,000 for his second-place finish, which gave him a final full of $2,522,700 for his Jeopardy! run. Zerg, whom Jennings chosen a "formidable opponent", finished in 3rd identify on the adjacent show. The audition gave a standing ovation in laurels of both contestants, and Trebek called Zerg a "behemothic killer" as Jennings embraced her.

It took a span of 182 calendar days to circulate Jennings' 75 matches. His losing episode can be seen on the 2005 DVD release of Jeopardy!: An Inside Look at America's Favorite Quiz Show, released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Effect of the streak on Jeopardy! [edit]

Jeopardy! implemented some backstage changes during Jennings' run. Commonly, players only get a short fourth dimension to practise, but more rehearsal fourth dimension was added and so that the new players could become comfortable with the buzzers. Additionally, the person who managed the buzzer system was changed.[19] In his volume Brainiac, Jennings says that the consistency of the original managing director'south timing had given an increasing advantage to standing players, and that the modify made a noticeable difference in the second season that he was on the show. At ane point, journalist Johnny Gilbert stopped announcing Jennings' total wins during the show's opening.

On December 1, 2004, the day after his defeat, Jennings fabricated a guest advent at the start of the broadcast, during which host Alex Trebek best-selling his success and enumerated the various game testify records he had cleaved.[20]

Co-ordinate to the Nielsen Tv National People Meter, Jeopardy! 's ratings were 22 percent higher during Jennings' run than they were during the same period the previous yr. For several weeks of the winnings' streak, Jeopardy! was ranked as TV's highest-rated syndicated program.[21] Past the end of Jeopardy! 's 20th season several weeks later, the show had surpassed sis program Wheel of Fortune in the ratings, though Bike even so benefited from the streak in markets where Jeopardy! is its atomic number 82-in in the common scheduling tactic for both shows.[22]

Media appearances and coverage during the streak [edit]

Jennings has received a good bargain of American media coverage. After his 38th win on Jeopardy! during the summer intermission betwixt tapings, Jennings made a guest appearance on Live with Regis and Kelly. There Jennings revealed that he had failed to qualify for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, in one case hosted by Regis Philbin. During that guest appearance, Jennings said, "Jeopardy! is a human'southward game... it's not similar Millionaire."[23] All the same, he finally made information technology onto Millionaire a few years later during Terry Crews' only year as host. Jennings appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman to present Letterman's "Top Ten Listing" ("Top X Ways to Irritate Alex Trebek"). He appeared again on the programme on the night his last show was televised, in addition to interview segments airing that night on local belatedly evening news programming and on Nightline. Barbara Walters selected Jennings as 1 of the "Ten Most Fascinating People of 2004" for her twelfth annual ABC News special, which aired on Dec viii, 2004. While on his media bout following his final game, Jennings taped a segment for Sesame Street. Television receiver Guide featured a segment of "The Elevation X Tv Moments of 2004", in which Jennings' loss placed third. On Dec i, 2004, A&Due east aired an episode of Biography on Jennings and other Jeopardy! notables, including Frank Spangenberg and Eddie Timanus.

Jeopardy! tournaments [edit]

On December 28, 2004, Sony announced a 15-week, 75-prove Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions. It featured Tournament of Champions, College Championship, and Teen Tournament winners from the testify'due south 21-year run, as well as over 100 five-time champions. Jeopardy! 'due south executive producer, Harry Friedman, explained, "The 2003 rule modify, which allows Jeopardy! players to keep playing until they're defeated, raised the question nearly how other five-time champions might have played under this rule. This tournament is an opportunity to give those past champions another chance to shine." The field totaled 145 players including Jennings, who, unlike the other competitors, was automatically placed in the finals. The Ultimate Tournament of Champions offered substantial cash prizes; with a g prize of $2 million to the winner, $500,000 for the first runner-upward, and $250,000 for the second runner-up. Guaranteed prize coin was offered to all contestants.

In the final round of the Ultimate Tournament, Brad Rutter decisively defeated Jennings and Jerome Vered, with respective last scores of $62,000, $34,599, and $20,600. Jennings won the $500,000 prize for second place, merely as a upshot of the Ultimate Tournament, Rutter temporarily displaced him as the highest overall winner of money on game shows. Jennings has said he is yet happy with his second-identify stop.

From Feb 14–sixteen, 2011, Jeopardy 's "IBM Claiming" featured the visitor'southward Watson against Jennings and Rutter in two matches played over three days.[24] The winner of the contest was Watson, winning $1 million for ii charities, while Jennings was second and Rutter was third, receiving $300,000 and $200,000, respectively. Jennings and Rutter each pledged to donate half of their winnings to charity.

This was the first-e'er homo-versus-automobile competition in the testify's history. At the end of the commencement episode, in which only the first match's Jeopardy! round was aired, Rutter was tied with Watson at $five,000, while Jennings was in 3rd with $2,000. After the second episode in which the first game was completed, Jennings remained at third with $4,800 while Rutter at 2nd had $x,400.[25] The competition concluded with Watson with $77,147, Jennings with $24,000, and Rutter with $21,600.[26] Below his response during the Final Jeopardy! round, Jennings wrote on his screen "I for ane welcome our new computer overlords." It was the commencement fourth dimension Rutter had been defeated confronting any human thespian, although the defeat is non on Rutter'southward Jeopardy! official record, as the contest was deemed an exhibition.

Jennings wrote virtually playing confronting Watson for Slate.[27]

In 2014, Jeopardy! aired a special v-calendar week Jeopardy! Battle of the Decades tournament. Jennings made it to the finals forth with Brad Rutter and Roger Craig. Jennings placed second, winning a $100,000 prize, and Rutter won first place, securing a $1-million prize.

In the 2019 Jeopardy! All-Star Games, with 18 former champions, Jennings was i of six captains, choosing 2015 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions runner-up Matt Jackson and 2012 Jeopardy! Higher Champion Monica Thieu (who coincidentally eliminated Jennings in a 2022 episode of 500 Questions) to complete his 3-person "Team Ken".[28] Squad Ken finished 2nd to the team captained by Rutter, with Jennings winning $100,000, one-third of the $300,000 second-place prize.[28] This brought his lifetime Jeopardy!-related winnings to $3,522,700.

In June 2019, Jennings said a future confront-off betwixt him and Jeopardy! tape-holder James Holzhauer would be "irresistible."[29]

A November 18, 2022 annunciation past ABC named Jennings, Holzhauer, and Brad Rutter would render to Jeopardy! in a tournament to determine who is the "Greatest of All Time" scheduled to air on January seven, 2020.[xxx] Jennings won the championship to be crowned with the "Greatest of All Time" title and a first-place prize of $1 one thousand thousand.[31]

Exterior Jeopardy! [edit]

Taking advantage of the notoriety of Jennings' losing Final Jeopardy! answer, H&R Cake offered Jennings free tax planning and fiscal services for the rest of his life.[32] H&R Cake senior vice president David Byers estimated that Jennings owed about $1.04 one thousand thousand in taxes on his winnings.[33] [34] Besides, BBDO created an advertisement for FedEx in the Usa Today newspaper three days after his terminal game, stating "There'southward but one fourth dimension FedEx has ever been the wrong answer" and congratulating Jennings for his streak.[35]

In a 2011 Reddit AMA, Jennings recalled how in 2004 the Autonomous politicians Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid unsuccessfully asked Jennings to run for the United States Senate from Utah. He commented, "That was when I realized the Autonomous Political party was f@#$ed in '04".[36]

Jennings has written several books. Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive Globe of Trivia Buffs details his experiences on Jeopardy! and his research into trivia culture conducted after the completion of his run.[37] Ken Jennings' Trivia Almanac: 8,888 Questions in 365 Days, a hardcover book, is a compilation of trivia questions—with 3 categories and about 20 questions per day of the yr.[38] Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird Earth of Geography Wonks explores the globe of map and geography enthusiasts.[39] Because I Said And so! is a humorous exam of "the myths, tales & warnings every generation passes down to its kids".[40] He also has written five books for his children'due south series, Junior Genius Guides. [41]

Jennings also had a column in Mental Floss magazine called "6 Degrees of Ken Jennings", where readers submitted two wildly different things that Jennings had to connect in exactly half dozen steps, in the style of the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game.[42] The column ran from November 2005[43] to the September–October 2010 upshot.[44]

According to Diverseness.com, Jennings and television producer Michael Davies teamed upwardly as executive producers on a new game show format for Comedy Central. Co-ordinate to Comedy Cardinal execs, information technology was planned that Jennings would co-host and participate.[45] The series was planned to premiere late in 2005 or in the first quarter of 2006. Every bit of Apr 2006, development had stalled, and the show's future remained uncertain. Jennings explained on his website that "Stephen Colbert'south show was doing so well in its mail-Daily Prove spot that Comedy Primal decided they weren't in the market for a quiz show anymore." As of mid-2006, he was still shopping a potential game show titled Ken Jennings vs. the Rest of the World.[46]

Jennings appeared on The Colbert Report on September thirteen, 2006. During the interview, Colbert discussed Jennings' volume, Brainiac, and mocked him for non knowing the number of pages in the book. Subsequently Colbert coined a discussion to describe intellectual nerdiness, "poindexterity", Jennings deliberated what the correct noun for "poindexter" was. Jennings noted, equally he had done earlier that day on NPR's Talk of the Nation, that since his streak, people "seem to have an extra-hard trivia question" in case they run into him.[47]

He also appeared twice on NPR'southward Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! program. In his February 25, 2006, advent on the "Not My Job" segment, he answered all iii questions correctly, winning for a listener Carl Kasell'due south voice on that person's home answering motorcar. Jennings said, "This is the proudest moment of my game-show life."[48] On June 1, 2013, he made his debut every bit a panelist on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.

Jennings has written and edited literature and mythology questions for the National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT), a quiz bowl organization.[49] He has read questions as a moderator at the 2005, 2006, and 2009 NAQT High School National Championship Tournaments in Chicago.[ commendation needed ]

Entertainment Weekly put his performance on its end-of-the-decade "best of" list, proverb, "Reply: A software engineer from Utah, he dominated the quizfest for a record 74 shows in 2004, amassing $2,520,700. Question: Who is Ken Jennings?"[50]

Jennings narrated the audiobook version of Alex Trebek'south autobiography, The Answer Is.... His rendition was nominated for the Grammy Laurels for Best Spoken Word Album at the 63rd Grammy Awards.[51]

Other game show appearances [edit]

Jennings appeared on the commencement two episodes of the NBC game show ane vs. 100 on October thirteen and 20, 2006, equally a mob member. He incorrectly answered the question, "What color is the number i space on a standard roulette wheel?" as "black" instead of "red" in his second episode, eliminating him from the game.[52] He left the show with $714.29, his share of a $35,000 prize shared among 49 mob members. He returned to the show for a special "Last Homo Standing" episode aired on February 9, 2007. He was eliminated on the last question, which asked which of three people had been married the most times; he answered Rex Henry Eight, while the correct answer was Larry Male monarch. It was the first time Jennings had a adventure at a rematch confronting rival Brad Rutter, who was as well function of the mob and was eliminated before Jennings.

In 2007, Jennings was invited to exist a contestant on the game show G Slam hosted past Dennis Miller and Amanda Byram, besides a Sony Pictures production. It debuted on Game Prove Network (GSN) on August four, 2007, and featured 16 former game-show winners in a unmarried-elimination tournament. Jennings, seeded second behind Brad Rutter, won the tournament and became the 2007 Grand Slam Champion afterwards defeating Ogi Ogas (a second-circular winner against Rutter) in the finals. He earned $100,000 for his victory.

Jennings was a contestant on an episode of Are Y'all Smarter Than a 5th Grader? [53] that aired on October 10, 2008, which held the possibility of exceeding Rutter'due south total game testify winnings. After winning $500,000, enough to surpass Rutter's total, Jennings chose not to endeavour the final $1-million question, which would have deducted $475,000 from his winnings if he missed information technology. As is customary on the show, Jennings was and then shown the question to see what would take happened, and he provided the correct answer. Had he risked his winnings and correctly answered the question, he would have become the show'southward 2d $1-million winner.

From 2008 to 2009, Jennings appeared on GSN on Fridays for the trivia game Stump the Master, where home viewers submitted questions via the GSN website. Four callers were put on hold and Jennings selected from i of the categories. The caller for the category he picked came on the line and read the question. If Jennings didn't answer or was incorrect, the caller won $1,000 or more. When Jennings was correct, the jackpot was increased by $ane,000. All callers were given a small prize whether they participated on-air or not.

Jennings has appeared on multiple episodes of Doug Loves Movies, hosted by Doug Benson, and has won a few times.

Jennings also appeared on two other Sony Pictures Boob tube game shows, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, as a frequent expert for the lifeline "Ask the Good", and also taped a airplane pilot for the proposed 2009 CBS revival of Sony'southward The $25,000 Pyramid. [54]

Jennings appeared on Millionaire in 2022 as a contestant during Guinness Globe Records Edition themed calendar week, where he won $100,000 after deciding to walk away on his $250,000 question. If he had gone for it, he would have been right and would accept won $250,000.[55]

Jennings appeared on the second-flavor premiere of 500 Questions on May 26, 2016[56] and was eliminated on the fourth question by winter 2012 higher champion Monica Thieu, leaving with no winnings. Jennings later teamed upwardly with Thieu, along with Matt Jackson, in the Jeopardy! All-Star Games in 2019.

Jennings appeared on an episode of @midnight aired May fifteen, 2017, during the fourth season, which he won. As a issue, he served every bit the funniest person on the internet for May 16, 2017.[57]

An annunciation in Apr 2022 named Jennings as ane of eight recurring "Trivia Experts" for the new Game Evidence Network program All-time Ever Trivia Bear witness, hosted by Sherri Shepherd. The show premiered at iv:00 p.m. ET on June 10, 2019.[58] He was also ane of the vi trivia experts on Best Ever 'southward successor, Master Minds, which premiered at 4:00 p.thou. ET on April 6, 2020, with Brooke Burns as the host.[59]

In Nov 2020, information technology was appear that Jennings would exist one of the 3 chasers on the ABC revival of The Chase, hosted by Sara Haines with Rutter and Holzhauer every bit the other chasers,[lx] joined by Mark Labbett in season 2. Jennings left subsequently the 2nd season.[61]

American Crossword Puzzle Tournament [edit]

Jennings won the rookie division of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in 2006.[62] In his offset time competing, Jennings placed 37th overall. He likewise served as the award'south presenter, becoming the start contestant to nowadays an laurels to himself. He has not competed in the tournament since.

Kennections [edit]

Jennings had a weekly trivia column, Kennections, in Parade magazine.[63] In it, five questions were posed whose answers were continued to a mystery topic, which the readers had to guess. Parade ceased the quiz in early 2015, and removed links to archived quizzes in March 2015. Kennections now appears in the online version of Mental Floss magazine.

Tuesday trivia emails [edit]

Every Tuesday, beginning July 4, 2006, Jennings sent out an electronic mail containing 7 questions. The 7th, a question asking what several items have in common, was designed to be Google-resistant.[64] Subscribers responded with the answers to all seven questions and the results are maintained on a scoreboard on Jennings' blog.[65] Every 10 weeks, the respondent with the almost 7th questions correct was awarded a signed copy of his newest book. After 800 quizzes, as of November 16th, 2021, due to an ever-increasing amount of commitments related to Jeopardy!, book tours, and only starting to run out of textile for the seventh question, Jennings decided to discontinue this email.[66]

Controversial tweets [edit]

Jennings is an active Twitter user, and some of his tweets have been subjects of controversy. On September 22, 2014, he received criticism subsequently tweeting, "Null sadder than a hot person in a wheelchair."[67] [68] [69] [70] The tweet reignited controversy after resurfacing in 2020, which led to condemnation from noted inability rights activists such as Rebecca Cokley.[71]

On Nov x, 2015, he was criticized when he tweeted a joke about the death of Daniel Fleetwood, a lifelong Star Wars fan who died of cancer. Fleetwood'south dying wish was to meet Star Wars: The Force Awakens, fearing he likely would not alive to see the film when information technology opened in theaters in Dec 2015. An online campaign was started on his behalf and his wish was granted just days before he died. Jennings said, "It tin't be a skillful sign that every fan who has seen the new Star Wars motion-picture show died presently thereafter."[72]

Jennings over again faced controversy when on May 31, 2017, he tweeted a joke involving Barron Trump, the youngest kid of U.Due south. President Donald Trump. Afterward xi-twelvemonth-old Barron saw an image of Kathy Griffin holding a bloody Trump mask, he believed it was real and screamed. Jennings wrote, "Barron Trump saw a very long necktie on a heap of expired cafeteria meat in a dumpster. He thought it was his dad & his trivial heart is breaking."[73] After the tweet garnered controversy, Jennings said, "The joke doesn't mock Barron. It mocks using him for political cover."[74] In August 2018, Jennings was criticized for his description of an elderly woman tweeting nigh her deceased son. When she tweeted about her son's love for the 1980s television character ALF, Jennings responded with "This awful MAGA grandma is my favorite person on Twitter."[75]

In Dec 2020, Jennings offered an amends on Twitter for some of his past comments.[76]

In Jan 2021, Jennings faced controversy over again when his friend and podcast co-host John Roderick posted a Twitter thread where he discussed preventing his 9-yr-old daughter from eating until she learned to open a can of baked beans using a manual can opener, which he approximated took half-dozen hours.[77] [78] [79] The incident acquired controversial past tweets to resurface in which Roderick made comments that were seen as using anti-semitic, homophobic, racist, and other derogatory linguistic communication. Jennings defended Roderick, saying he was "a loving and attentive dad who ... tells heightened-for-result stories."[80] [79] [81]

The Wall Street Journal reported in August 2022 that Jennings was intended to be Alex Trebek's successor, but his social media controversies hurt his standing, with poor ratings from focus groups and Sony executives fearing his choice could cause backlash.[82] [83] [84]

Omnibus podcast [edit]

On September seven, 2017, HowStuffWorks unveiled a new prove entitled Omnibus, co-hosted by Jennings and John Roderick, frontman of the indie-rock ring The Long Winters. They will pick topics they fright might be lost to history and discuss them.[85]

Washington Country honor [edit]

On March 3, 2020, the Washington Country Legislature approved Senate Resolution 8704, congratulating Jennings for his achievements on game shows.[thirteen] [86]

Endorsements [edit]

Jennings agreed to a deal with Microsoft to promote its Encarta encyclopedia software (which was later discontinued). He is also engaged in speaking deals through the Massachusetts-based speakers' agency American Program Bureau.[87] In 2005, Cingular Wireless (now AT&T) featured Jennings in commercials portraying him equally having lots of "friends and family" (coming out of the woodwork).

University Games produced a Tin You Shell Ken? board game, in which players vie against each other and Jennings in an endeavour to earn $2.six million first. Each question in the game was asked to Jennings, and his answers, both correct and incorrect, are recorded on the cards.[88]

Jennings has been an agile fellow member of the trivia app FleetWit, regularly playing in the alive trivia races.[89] Equally of March 2018, on average, he had answered 89 pct of questions correctly and has won over $ii,000.[xc] Jennings regularly competes in LearnedLeague under the name "JenningsK".[91]

Personal life [edit]

Jennings and his wife Mindy[12] have a son, Dylan, built-in November 22, 2002,[92] and a girl, Caitlin, built-in November 13, 2006.[93]

During his Jeopardy! winning streak, Jennings was a software engineer for CHG Healthcare Services, a healthcare-placement firm in Holladay, Utah.[94]

Jennings is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-twenty-four hour period Saints.[95]

See also [edit]

  • List of notable Jeopardy! contestants
  • Strategies and skills of Jeopardy! champions

Bibliography [edit]

  • Jennings, Ken (2018). Planet Funny: How One-act Took Over Our Civilization. New York: Scribner. ISBN978-1501100581.
  • Jennings, Ken (2016). Ken Jennings' Junior Genius Guides: Dinosaurs. New York: Piffling Simon. ISBN978-1481429566.
  • Jennings, Ken (2015). Ken Jennings' Inferior Genius Guides: Ancient Egypt. New York: Trivial Simon. ISBN978-1481429528.
  • Jennings, Ken (2015). Ken Jennings' Junior Genius Guides: The Homo Trunk. New York: Piffling Simon. ISBN978-1481401739.
  • Jennings, Ken (2014). Ken Jennings Inferior Genius Guides: Outer Infinite. New York: Piffling Simon. ISBN978-1481401708.
  • Jennings, Ken (2014). Ken Jennings' Junior Genius Guides: U.Southward. Presidents. New York: Little Simon. ISBN978-1442473324.
  • Jennings, Ken (2014). Ken Jennings' Junior Genius Guides: Greek Mythology. New York: Petty Simon. ISBN978-1442473300.
  • Jennings, Ken (2014). Ken Jennings' Junior Genius Guides: Maps and Geography. New York: Little Simon. ISBN978-1442473287.
  • Jennings, Ken (2012). Because I Said Then! The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids . New York: Scribner. ISBN978-1451656251.
  • Jennings, Ken (2011). Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird Earth of Geography Wonks. New York: Scribner. ISBN978-1439167175.
  • Jennings, Ken (2008). Ken Jennings's Trivia Annual: 8,888 Questions in 365 Days. New York: Villard. ISBN978-0345499974.
  • Jennings, Ken (2006). Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs . New York: Villard. ISBN978-1400064458.

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External links [edit]

  • Official website Edit this at Wikidata
  • Omnibus podcast web site
  • Jennings' February 2013 TED talk (video), "Watson, Jeopardy, and me, the obsolete know-information technology-all"
  • Ken Jennings at IMDb
  • 2006 IMNO Interview with Ken Jennings
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Preceded past

Mike Richards (2021)

 Host of Jeopardy!
(syndicated; rotating with Mayim Bialik)
2021-present 		Succeeded by

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