Ken Jennings

“The commercial break before Final Jeopardy is usually the only time that the show stops tape. You’re given as long as you…

— Ken Jennings

There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that…

— Ken Jennings

I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.

— Ken Jennings

“After all, we're currently living in a Bizarro society where teenagers are technology-obsessed, where the biggest sellers in every bookstores are fantasy…

— Ken Jennings

“What are those bulb things you're slicing?" "You've never seen fennel? It looks like celery and tastes like licorice.”

— Ken Jennings

There’s just something hypnotic about maps.

— Ken Jennings

I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.

— Ken Jennings

The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing...

— Ken Jennings

When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all…

— Ken Jennings

The future is here.

— Ken Jennings

I remember one of my last shows, the Final Jeopardy! clue was something like 'These two boys' names are top 10 boys'…

— 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

If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to…

— Ken Jennings

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

— Ken Jennings

The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you can't know. And so it's not about who knows them, but…

— Ken Jennings

It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.

— Ken Jennings

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.

— Ken Jennings

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

— Ken Jennings

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

— Ken Jennings

I have always loved maps.

— Ken Jennings

Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.

— Ken Jennings

If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true.

— Ken Jennings

I threw the opening pitch at a Blue Jays game, and after the pitch, the mascot asked me if I wanted him…

— Ken Jennings

It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.

— Ken Jennings