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Kenning Jennings (Jeopardy guy) is a pretty 180 dude

Randomly stumbled upon a Reddit AMA he did recently. http:/...
Fantasy-prone mauve elastic band heaven
  02/13/13
He's one of the only people worth following on Twitter. Pret...
sticky piazza water buffalo
  02/13/13
Ken Jennings on Manti Teo's fake girlfriend: "WHOA. ...
bisexual free-loading idiot candlestick maker
  02/13/13
lol 180
Adventurous Bull Headed Incel Voyeur
  02/13/13
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Hyderabadass
  09/25/25
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Ass Hands
  09/25/25
Hilarious on twitter, unsurprisingly comes off as a little a...
Sadistic Insecure Nibblets Kitty Cat
  02/13/13
the few mormons i've met irl have been really nice but a lit...
clear odious space
  02/14/13
hes hilarious.
Twisted becky
  02/13/13
Is he just biding his time until Trebek dies?
swollen bat-shit-crazy police squad home
  02/13/13
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bat shit crazy people who are hurt
  02/13/13
Homosexual Mormon liberal endearing to XO why.
multi-colored stag film
  02/13/13
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ruddy at-the-ready state
  02/13/13
wtf, he's queer?
hot love of her life stage
  02/13/13
No, but he is shitlib.
Frozen light school cafeteria weed whacker
  06/02/14
His original run on Jeopardy was insane. He absolutely crush...
Ocher forum skinny woman
  02/13/13
But he loses ToC twice why?
Chest-beating copper immigrant
  02/13/13
That Rudder dude I guess is just faster with the buzzer. I'...
Fantasy-prone mauve elastic band heaven
  02/13/13
Yeah. I still root for Ken. He's my favorite gameshow dude j...
Chest-beating copper immigrant
  02/13/13
I actually just watched the clip of him winning today (resul...
Fantasy-prone mauve elastic band heaven
  02/13/13
calling your dad to say you're gonna win so fucking good
Chest-beating copper immigrant
  02/13/13
Carpenter is the true alpha of gaming bros
Glittery Drunken Rehab Hunting Ground
  02/13/13
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Chest-beating copper immigrant
  02/13/13
that had to have been fixed. it's statistically impossible t...
hot love of her life stage
  02/13/13
Lol @ this. Jeopardy is and always will be TCQS. No phone ...
Glittery Drunken Rehab Hunting Ground
  02/13/13
i like jeopardy more, but WWTBAM was a cultural sensation an...
hot love of her life stage
  02/13/13
And yet Jeopardy has always raked in massive amounts of cash...
embarrassed to the bone dilemma indirect expression
  06/02/14
For most of Jeopardy's run you could only appear 5 times bef...
Fantasy-prone mauve elastic band heaven
  02/13/13
this isn't the 1950s anymore bro
hot love of her life stage
  02/13/13
According to Jennings the laws are still really serious as a...
Fantasy-prone mauve elastic band heaven
  02/13/13
Fuck I forgot about that rule.
embarrassed to the bone dilemma indirect expression
  06/02/14
Wrong. Millionaire was no longer prime time at that time. Al...
Chest-beating copper immigrant
  02/13/13
this doesn't argue against me. they wanted the publicity ...
hot love of her life stage
  02/13/13
Why hasnt anything close to it happened since? In decade...
Provocative marketing idea
  02/14/13
What you're missing is that each game he became harder to be...
marvelous public bath toilet seat
  02/14/13
All of reddit operating at a high level in that thread
Irradiated locus feces
  02/14/13
He did another one, http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/22...
Fantasy-prone mauve elastic band heaven
  06/02/14
If you could have any 3 historical figures, alive or dead, t...
embarrassed to the bone dilemma indirect expression
  06/02/14
Maybe Anne will come up with the final solution this time. ...
Rambunctious iridescent internal respiration tank
  06/02/14
(ken jennings)
embarrassed to the bone dilemma indirect expression
  06/02/14
the asian bro people were hating on would have beaten jennin...
overrated hideous macaca
  06/02/14
I don't think Chu's breadth of knowledge was as deep.
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  06/02/14
–]respite 249 points 1 month ago How do you pronounce the &...
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  06/02/14


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Date: February 13th, 2013 8:53 PM
Author: Fantasy-prone mauve elastic band heaven

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2,#22634555)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 8:54 PM
Author: sticky piazza water buffalo

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: bisexual free-loading idiot candlestick maker

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2,#22634566)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:40 PM
Author: Adventurous Bull Headed Incel Voyeur

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: Sadistic Insecure Nibblets Kitty Cat

Hilarious on twitter, unsurprisingly comes off as a little aspie IRL

http://youtube.com/#/watch?v=nvD2dSqsDBs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2,#22634573)



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Date: February 14th, 2013 8:45 AM
Author: clear odious space

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2,#22636765)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 8:58 PM
Author: Twisted becky

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: swollen bat-shit-crazy police squad home

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: bat shit crazy people who are hurt



(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: multi-colored stag film

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: ruddy at-the-ready state



(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: hot love of her life stage

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: Frozen light school cafeteria weed whacker

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: Ocher forum skinny woman

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: Chest-beating copper immigrant

But he loses ToC twice

why?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2,#22634784)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:41 PM
Author: Fantasy-prone mauve elastic band heaven

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: Chest-beating copper immigrant

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: Fantasy-prone mauve elastic band heaven

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2,#22634811)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:47 PM
Author: Chest-beating copper immigrant

calling your dad to say you're gonna win

so fucking good

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2,#22634837)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:43 PM
Author: Glittery Drunken Rehab Hunting Ground

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: Chest-beating copper immigrant



(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: hot love of her life stage

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).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2,#22634808)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:44 PM
Author: Glittery Drunken Rehab Hunting Ground

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: hot love of her life stage

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: embarrassed to the bone dilemma indirect expression

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: Fantasy-prone mauve elastic band heaven

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2,#22634817)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:45 PM
Author: hot love of her life stage

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: Fantasy-prone mauve elastic band heaven

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: embarrassed to the bone dilemma indirect expression

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: Chest-beating copper immigrant

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: hot love of her life stage

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2,#22634872)



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Date: February 14th, 2013 4:09 AM
Author: Provocative marketing idea

Why hasnt anything close to it happened since?

In decades of running this show, they didnt realize high stakes and drama helped boost ratings?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2,#22636531)



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Date: February 14th, 2013 8:37 AM
Author: marvelous public bath toilet seat

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: Irradiated locus feces

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: Fantasy-prone mauve elastic band heaven

He did another one, http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/227efm/ken_jennings_from_jeopardy_here_wearing_out_my/

Another 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2,#25675480)



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Date: June 2nd, 2014 8:41 PM
Author: embarrassed to the bone dilemma indirect expression

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.

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[–]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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2,#25675528)



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Date: June 2nd, 2014 9:03 PM
Author: Rambunctious iridescent internal respiration tank

Maybe Anne will come up with the final solution this time.

I'm so sorry. I had to.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2,#25675628)



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Date: June 2nd, 2014 9:57 PM
Author: embarrassed to the bone dilemma indirect expression

(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: overrated hideous macaca

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: Fantasy-prone mauve elastic band heaven

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: razzle splenetic hall

–]respite 249 points 1 month ago

How do you pronounce the "!" in "Jeopardy!"?

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[–]WatsonsBitch[S] 1757 points 1 month ago

In my case, it's pronounced, "Paid for my house."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2,#25675744)