Ken Jennings Quotes
33 quotes
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You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be…
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There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls…
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Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a world where nonstate…
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Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.
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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.
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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…
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For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.
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I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.
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I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.
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Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer
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There’s just something hypnotic about maps.
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The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing...
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Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.
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You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these…
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I can't relax and sink back in the couch and watch 'Jeopardy!' the way I used to.
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I have always loved maps.
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I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.
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If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true.
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It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.
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Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.
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