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Kenning Jennings (Jeopardy guy) is a pretty 180 dude

Randomly stumbled upon a Reddit AMA he did recently. http:/...
Cowardly hell
  02/13/13
He's one of the only people worth following on Twitter. Pret...
avocado therapy
  02/13/13
Ken Jennings on Manti Teo's fake girlfriend: "WHOA. ...
fiercely-loyal cuckold kitty cat
  02/13/13
lol 180
Racy Queen Of The Night
  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...
mind-boggling theater stage
  02/13/13
the few mormons i've met irl have been really nice but a lit...
Insane Hunting Ground
  02/14/13
hes hilarious.
Sadistic citrine property
  02/13/13
Is he just biding his time until Trebek dies?
cerebral dun pozpig
  02/13/13
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Zombie-like stirring school
  02/13/13
Homosexual Mormon liberal endearing to XO why.
Opaque autistic mediation
  02/13/13
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Cracking costumed theater
  02/13/13
wtf, he's queer?
Amber nibblets station
  02/13/13
No, but he is shitlib.
glittery ultramarine scourge upon the earth
  06/02/14
His original run on Jeopardy was insane. He absolutely crush...
Bateful church pistol
  02/13/13
But he loses ToC twice why?
peach round eye
  02/13/13
That Rudder dude I guess is just faster with the buzzer. I'...
Cowardly hell
  02/13/13
Yeah. I still root for Ken. He's my favorite gameshow dude j...
peach round eye
  02/13/13
I actually just watched the clip of him winning today (resul...
Cowardly hell
  02/13/13
calling your dad to say you're gonna win so fucking good
peach round eye
  02/13/13
Carpenter is the true alpha of gaming bros
wild hyperactive gunner piazza
  02/13/13
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peach round eye
  02/13/13
that had to have been fixed. it's statistically impossible t...
Amber nibblets station
  02/13/13
Lol @ this. Jeopardy is and always will be TCQS. No phone ...
wild hyperactive gunner piazza
  02/13/13
i like jeopardy more, but WWTBAM was a cultural sensation an...
Amber nibblets station
  02/13/13
And yet Jeopardy has always raked in massive amounts of cash...
Multi-colored site fortuitous meteor
  06/02/14
For most of Jeopardy's run you could only appear 5 times bef...
Cowardly hell
  02/13/13
this isn't the 1950s anymore bro
Amber nibblets station
  02/13/13
According to Jennings the laws are still really serious as a...
Cowardly hell
  02/13/13
Fuck I forgot about that rule.
Multi-colored site fortuitous meteor
  06/02/14
Wrong. Millionaire was no longer prime time at that time. Al...
peach round eye
  02/13/13
this doesn't argue against me. they wanted the publicity ...
Amber nibblets station
  02/13/13
Why hasnt anything close to it happened since? In decade...
Exciting Elite School Cafeteria Giraffe
  02/14/13
What you're missing is that each game he became harder to be...
Free-loading Range
  02/14/13
All of reddit operating at a high level in that thread
Hateful learning disabled stage marketing idea
  02/14/13
He did another one, http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/22...
Cowardly hell
  06/02/14
If you could have any 3 historical figures, alive or dead, t...
Multi-colored site fortuitous meteor
  06/02/14
Maybe Anne will come up with the final solution this time. ...
Nubile rehab national security agency
  06/02/14
(ken jennings)
Multi-colored site fortuitous meteor
  06/02/14
the asian bro people were hating on would have beaten jennin...
Lascivious indecent multi-billionaire
  06/02/14
I don't think Chu's breadth of knowledge was as deep.
Cowardly hell
  06/02/14
–]respite 249 points 1 month ago How do you pronounce the &...
embarrassed to the bone abode
  06/02/14


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Date: February 13th, 2013 8:53 PM
Author: Cowardly hell

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/en-en/#22634555)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 8:54 PM
Author: avocado therapy

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/en-en/#22634558)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 8:55 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal cuckold kitty cat

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/en-en/#22634566)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:40 PM
Author: Racy Queen Of The Night

lol 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2/en-en/#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/en-en/#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/en-en/#49302833)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 8:57 PM
Author: mind-boggling theater stage

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/en-en/#22634573)



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Date: February 14th, 2013 8:45 AM
Author: Insane Hunting Ground

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/en-en/#22636765)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 8:58 PM
Author: Sadistic citrine property

hes hilarious.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2/en-en/#22634577)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:01 PM
Author: cerebral dun pozpig

Is he just biding his time until Trebek dies?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2/en-en/#22634583)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:04 PM
Author: Zombie-like stirring school



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2/en-en/#22634592)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:04 PM
Author: Opaque autistic mediation

Homosexual Mormon liberal endearing to XO why.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2/en-en/#22634589)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:37 PM
Author: Cracking costumed theater



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2/en-en/#22634765)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:39 PM
Author: Amber nibblets station

wtf, he's queer?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2/en-en/#22634786)



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Date: June 2nd, 2014 9:19 PM
Author: glittery ultramarine scourge upon the earth

No, but he is shitlib.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2/en-en/#25675717)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:34 PM
Author: Bateful church pistol

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/en-en/#22634756)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:39 PM
Author: peach round eye

But he loses ToC twice

why?

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



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:41 PM
Author: Cowardly hell

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/en-en/#22634795)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:41 PM
Author: peach round eye

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/en-en/#22634803)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:43 PM
Author: Cowardly hell

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/en-en/#22634811)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:47 PM
Author: peach round eye

calling your dad to say you're gonna win

so fucking good

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



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:43 PM
Author: wild hyperactive gunner piazza

Carpenter is the true alpha of gaming bros

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2/en-en/#22634813)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:50 PM
Author: peach round eye



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2/en-en/#22634858)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:43 PM
Author: Amber nibblets station

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/en-en/#22634808)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:44 PM
Author: wild hyperactive gunner piazza

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/en-en/#22634816)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:46 PM
Author: Amber nibblets station

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/en-en/#22634831)



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Date: June 2nd, 2014 8:33 PM
Author: Multi-colored site fortuitous meteor

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/en-en/#25675488)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:44 PM
Author: Cowardly hell

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/en-en/#22634817)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:45 PM
Author: Amber nibblets station

this isn't the 1950s anymore bro

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2/en-en/#22634827)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:48 PM
Author: Cowardly hell

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/en-en/#22634845)



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Date: June 2nd, 2014 8:34 PM
Author: Multi-colored site fortuitous meteor

Fuck I forgot about that rule.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2/en-en/#25675491)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:48 PM
Author: peach round eye

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/en-en/#22634843)



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Date: February 13th, 2013 9:52 PM
Author: Amber nibblets station

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/en-en/#22634872)



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Date: February 14th, 2013 4:09 AM
Author: Exciting Elite School Cafeteria Giraffe

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/en-en/#22636531)



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Date: February 14th, 2013 8:37 AM
Author: Free-loading Range

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/en-en/#22636755)



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Date: February 14th, 2013 9:25 AM
Author: Hateful learning disabled stage marketing idea

All of reddit operating at a high level in that thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2/en-en/#22636862)



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Date: June 2nd, 2014 8:30 PM
Author: Cowardly hell

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/en-en/#25675480)



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Date: June 2nd, 2014 8:41 PM
Author: Multi-colored site fortuitous meteor

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/en-en/#25675528)



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Date: June 2nd, 2014 9:03 PM
Author: Nubile rehab national security agency

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/en-en/#25675628)



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Date: June 2nd, 2014 9:57 PM
Author: Multi-colored site fortuitous meteor

(ken jennings)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2/en-en/#25676044)



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Date: June 2nd, 2014 9:15 PM
Author: Lascivious indecent multi-billionaire

the asian bro people were hating on would have beaten jennings.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2/en-en/#25675704)



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Date: June 2nd, 2014 9:21 PM
Author: Cowardly hell

I don't think Chu's breadth of knowledge was as deep.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2183898&forum_id=2/en-en/#25675728)



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Date: June 2nd, 2014 9:24 PM
Author: embarrassed to the bone abode

–]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/en-en/#25675744)