Quotes by Ken Jennings

Ken Jennings

Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a world where nonstate actors — malleable entities like ethnicities, for example — are as powerful and important as the ones with governments and borders. Where on a map can you point to al-Qaeda? Or Google, or Wal-Mart? Everywhere and nowhere.

Ethnicity

Government

Powerful

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 the answers, so it’s just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.

Night

Trying

Winning

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.

Nerd

Pay

Sometimes

During the whole ‘Jeopardy’ experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. ‘Jeopardy’ tries very hard to keep their secrets.

Flying

Secret

Trying

Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

Earth

Firsts

Men

For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., wheres theres crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.

Apples

Children

Florida

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

Devoted

Kids

Reason

I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.

Comic

Kids

Vacation

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

Cities

Library

Smell

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

Relax

Watches

Way

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America

Answers

Apples

Atlas

Being True

Blue

Boards

Boring

Boys

Brain

Buzzers

Cameras

Car

Cells

Century

Children

Cities

Comedian

Comic

Decision

Delaware

Devoted

Dog

Earth

Ethnicity

Exotic Places

Firsts

Florida

Flying

Games

Google

Government

Gps

Guy

Hours

Hypnotic

Ifs

Illiteracy

Internet

Jesus

Kids

Knowing

Library

Lifetime

Littles

Looks

Maps

Men

Names

Nerd

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Quotes by Ken Jennings

Ken Jennings

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 the answers, so it’s just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.

During the whole ‘Jeopardy’ experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. ‘Jeopardy’ tries very hard to keep their secrets.

Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., wheres theres crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.

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

I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.

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

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

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