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28 quotes by Ken Jennings

Kenneth Wayne "Ken" Jennings III (born May 23, 1974) is an American game show contestant and author. Jennings is noted for holding the record for the longest winning streak on the U.S. syndicated game show Jeopardy! and as being the second highest-earning contestant in American 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...
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Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.

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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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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... →

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

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I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.

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As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all... →

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For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., where's there's crocodiles on Florida and apples on... →

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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... →

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

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