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.
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… - 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 in Google somewhere you may not…
- Ken Jennings
Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian. - Ken Jennings
Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.
I threw the opening pitch at a Blue Jays game, and after the pitch, the mascot asked me if I wanted him to sign the game ball, which I thought was fu… - Ken Jennings
I threw the opening pitch at a Blue Jays game, and after the pitch, the mascot asked me if I wanted him to sign the game ball, which I thought was fu…
The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing. - Ken Jennings
The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing.
We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago. - Ken Jennings
We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.
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 to us, wo… - Ken Jennings
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 to us, wo…
There’s just something hypnotic about maps. - Ken Jennings
There’s just something hypnotic about maps.
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 pla… - Ken Jennings
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 pla…
I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users. - Ken Jennings
I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.
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