Top 20 Ken Jennings Quotes

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I remember one of my last shows, the Final Jeopardy! cl

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.
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I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.
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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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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.
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It’s really changed me. For the first time I’m in favor of the Bush tax cuts.
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We don’t realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.
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It’s boring to have the same guy win. I’m actively rooting against myself.
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When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they’re at your fingertips. If they’re all in Google somewhere, you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment.
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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.
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For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.
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There’s just something hypnotic about maps.
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Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.
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The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you can’t know. And so it’s not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds.
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I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.
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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 nearly all the answers, so it’s just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.
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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 a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.
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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 very prosaic places in America.
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The future is here.
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It’s so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing.
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If it’s on the Internet, then it’s gotta be true.
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