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.
Ken Jennings
Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.
Ken Jennings
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.
Ken Jennings
Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.
Ken Jennings
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 Washington state. That was my very first map.
Ken Jennings
For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.
Ken Jennings
I can't relax and sink back in the couch and watch 'Jeopardy!' the way I used to.
Ken Jennings
I have always loved maps.
Ken Jennings
I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.
Ken Jennings
I remember one of my last shows, the Final Jeopardy! clue was something like 'These two boys' names are top 10 boys' names in the U.S., they both end with the same letter, and they're both names of Jesus' apostles.' Now, obviously that's not a knowable fact.
Ken Jennings
I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.
Ken Jennings
I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.
Ken Jennings
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 every single time.
Ken Jennings
If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true.
Ken Jennings
It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.
Ken Jennings
It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.
Ken Jennings
It's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing.
Ken Jennings
Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.
Ken Jennings
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 woods. You go to a website, you get the latitude and longitude to get the specific location of a certain specific hiding space, and then you go there and see if you can find it.
Ken Jennings
Sure I have a cell-phone, so I don't have to remember everyone's number anymore, but that really wasn't a core part of my brain.
Ken Jennings
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