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Kenning Jennings (Jeopardy guy) is a pretty 180 dude
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Date: February 13th, 2013 8:53 PM Author: hairraiser library Randomly stumbled upon a Reddit AMA he did recently. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fwpzj/iama_74time_jeopardy_champion_ken_jennings_i_will/
He seems legitimately modest and he basically kills it in _every_ reply he gives.
EDIT: Meant "Ken" obviously. |
Date: February 13th, 2013 8:54 PM Author: multi-colored property He's one of the only people worth following on Twitter. Pretty hilarious dooder. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#22634558) |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 8:55 PM Author: sepia tripping wrinkle Ken Jennings on Manti Teo's fake girlfriend:
"WHOA. I am no longer the most famous Mormon to invent an always-suspiciously-absent 'girlfriend' in college" @KenJennings |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:40 PM Author: Exciting locale police squad lol 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#22634790) |
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Date: September 25th, 2025 3:11 PM Author: Hyderabadass (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#49302731) |
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Date: September 25th, 2025 3:43 PM Author: Ass Hands (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#49302833) |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 8:57 PM Author: red slap-happy location giraffe Hilarious on twitter, unsurprisingly comes off as a little aspie IRL
http://youtube.com/#/watch?v=nvD2dSqsDBs |
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Date: February 14th, 2013 8:45 AM Author: khaki state the few mormons i've met irl have been really nice but a little...off.
in korea i worked w this mormon dude from byu who was like 28 because he'd done his missionary thing. everyone else i worked w was convinced that he had a crush on me and would torment me non-stop. anyway this bro was nice but weird. he'd corner you and start lecturing yo about the peace of westphalia or something... like randomly. and he wouldn't stop until his little spiel was done. weirdest thing ever. he was so nice though that no one wold tell him how we felt about him. |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 8:58 PM Author: supple adulterous chad hes hilarious. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#22634577) |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:01 PM Author: Idiotic Costumed Public Bath Faggot Firefighter Is he just biding his time until Trebek dies? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#22634583) |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:04 PM Author: disgusting business firm stock car (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#22634592) |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:04 PM Author: Chrome glittery international law enforcement agency Homosexual Mormon liberal endearing to XO why. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#22634589) |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:37 PM Author: Indigo chapel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#22634765) |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:39 PM Author: flesh self-absorbed love of her life wtf, he's queer? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#22634786) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2014 9:19 PM Author: impressive plaza No, but he is shitlib. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#25675717) |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:34 PM Author: Cocky Slate Becky Meetinghouse His original run on Jeopardy was insane. He absolutely crushed the competition. The vast majority of his games were locks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#22634756) |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:39 PM Author: avocado pit legend But he loses ToC twice
why? |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:41 PM Author: hairraiser library That Rudder dude I guess is just faster with the buzzer. I'm sure both of them basically knew all the questions. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#22634795) |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:41 PM Author: avocado pit legend Yeah. I still root for Ken. He's my favorite gameshow dude just slightly ahead of Carpenter aka THE ORIGINAL MILLIONAIRE (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#22634803) |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:43 PM Author: hairraiser library I actually just watched the clip of him winning today (resulting from Jennings Googling). Easily the most alpha game show moment of all time.
Though it was sort of surprising the last question was that easy. |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:47 PM Author: avocado pit legend calling your dad to say you're gonna win
so fucking good |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:43 PM Author: effete bat shit crazy dysfunction Carpenter is the true alpha of gaming bros (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#22634813) |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:50 PM Author: avocado pit legend (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#22634858) |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:43 PM Author: flesh self-absorbed love of her life that had to have been fixed. it's statistically impossible that no former jeopardy champ had won more than a handful of games in a row in the 25 year run of the show, and then this guy shows up and runs a clinic for 70 days straight.
no, the jeopardy producers orchestrated it as a publicity stunt; because, if you recall, at the time "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" had stolen jeopardy's thunder, making jeopardy look comparatively small-stakes and uninteresting (compare its average champion's haul of like 45K to winning a cool Million dollars). |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:44 PM Author: effete bat shit crazy dysfunction Lol @ this. Jeopardy is and always will be TCQS. No phone a friend, no fucking audience poll. You either know it or you don't. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#22634816) |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:46 PM Author: flesh self-absorbed love of her life i like jeopardy more, but WWTBAM was a cultural sensation and made Jeopardy look hokey (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#22634831) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2014 8:33 PM Author: excitant station And yet Jeopardy has always raked in massive amounts of cash, even in the Millionaire days. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#25675488) |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:44 PM Author: hairraiser library For most of Jeopardy's run you could only appear 5 times before being retired. They changed the rule around a year before Ken went on his run. I'm not sure what the longest run has been since.
Networks aren't gonna fuck around with fixing gameshows anymore after what happened in the '50s I don't think. |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:45 PM Author: flesh self-absorbed love of her life this isn't the 1950s anymore bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#22634827) |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:48 PM Author: hairraiser library According to Jennings the laws are still really serious as a result of those scandals. Like he wasn't allowed like any contact with Trebeck at all while the show was going on. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#22634845) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2014 8:34 PM Author: excitant station Fuck I forgot about that rule. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#25675491) |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:48 PM Author: avocado pit legend Wrong. Millionaire was no longer prime time at that time. Also rules change. Also Ken being fast with the buzzer. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#22634843) |
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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:52 PM Author: flesh self-absorbed love of her life this doesn't argue against me.
they wanted the publicity for several reasons having to do with WWTBAM: the jeopardy brand had been tarnished, ratings had dropped; plus they saw that there was a far greater potential audience for quiz shows than they had previously believed, but only if they provided audiences with big money stakes and drama (Will Ken keep the streak alive?! Tune in tonight and find out!), etc.
it was a ratings bonanza for them. |
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Date: February 14th, 2013 4:09 AM Author: Flirting nursing home Why hasnt anything close to it happened since?
In decades of running this show, they didnt realize high stakes and drama helped boost ratings? |
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Date: February 14th, 2013 8:37 AM Author: Lilac Fragrant Principal's Office Twinkling Uncleanness What you're missing is that each game he became harder to beat. He got better and better with the buzzer. If you're smarter than everyone and are going to ring in first whenever everyone knows the answer because you've gotten completely acclimated with the buzzer timing, it's going to be really hard to beat you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#22636755) |
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Date: February 14th, 2013 9:25 AM Author: House-broken hell All of reddit operating at a high level in that thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#22636862) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2014 8:30 PM Author: hairraiser library He did another one, http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/227efm/ken_jennings_from_jeopardy_here_wearing_out_my/
Another 180 |
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Date: June 2nd, 2014 8:41 PM Author: excitant station If you could have any 3 historical figures, alive or dead, to play in your ultimate jeopardy game, who would you choose? Assume we could find a fair set of questions for them. permalink
[–]WatsonsBitch[S] 392 points 1 month ago Anne Frank vs Hitler. So satisfying for the home viewer. I don't care who the third player is. Wolf Blitzer. |
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Date: June 2nd, 2014 9:03 PM Author: Pea-brained brunch french chef Maybe Anne will come up with the final solution this time. I'm so sorry. I had to. |
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Date: June 2nd, 2014 9:57 PM Author: excitant station (ken jennings) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#25676044) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2014 9:15 PM Author: Aquamarine piazza goal in life the asian bro people were hating on would have beaten jennings. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#25675704) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2014 9:21 PM Author: hairraiser library I don't think Chu's breadth of knowledge was as deep. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2!#25675728) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2014 9:24 PM Author: curious crackhouse doctorate –]respite 249 points 1 month ago How do you pronounce the "!" in "Jeopardy!"? permalink [–]WatsonsBitch[S] 1757 points 1 month ago In my case, it's pronounced, "Paid for my house." |