Ken Jennings Quotes

• 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.

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• 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.

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• When you see people who are really good at game shows, the one common attribute is a cool head under pressure: an ability to perform as well in the studio, surrounded by lights and noise, as you do on your couch.

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• 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.

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

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• There’s just something hypnotic about maps.

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• The future is here.

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• The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you can’t know. And so it’s not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.

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• It’s so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing.

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• It’s really changed me. For the first time I’m in favor of the Bush tax cuts.

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

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

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• 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.

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  I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.

   

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• I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.

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• I remember one of my last shows, the Final Jeopardy! clue was something like ‘These two boys’ names are top 10 boys’ names in the U.S., they both end with the same letter, and they’re both names of Jesus’ apostles.’ Now, obviously that’s not a knowable fact.

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

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Ken Jennings (28)

Birth:	23rd May, 1974
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Computer Scientist

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