Ken Jennings
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Kenneth Wayne Jennings III (born May 23, 1974) holds the record for the longest winning streak on the game show Jeopardy!.
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"It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself." —TV Guide, 14 November 2004
"If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true." —Regarding the rumor about his loss during his 75th game on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
"This is Totoro!"
"I once killed a man down south, Alex."
"What'd you have for breakfast this morning, Alex?"
"Who is Jacko? — Michael Jackson."
"Who is Donny Osmond?...my man!"
"It's actually pretty scary." —In response to Alex's question about how he felt about all this MONEY.
"I've found out in a lot of the interviews I've done that when I'm asked a question, I tend to give the honest answer — so I don't think I'm winning an election anytime soon." —When asked by Alex if he'd ever considered running for office. A five-time champion from the early 1980s ran for Congress, and printed bumper stickers that read "The Answer Is...", followed by the champion's name (which Alex failed to mention).
"For the first time I'm actually in favor of the Bush tax cut."
"What be Ebonics?"
Ken:"¿Qué es nada?" (A Category about Nothing: "En Español")
Trebek: "He took control of the Ford Motor Company after Henry Ford's death."
Jennings: "Who was Ford?"
Trebek: "More specific."
Jennings: "I was afraid you were going to say that."
Trebek: "This term for a long-handled gardening tool can also mean an immoral pleasure seeker.
(Ken buzzes in)
Trebek: Ken?"
Jennings: "What is a hoe?"
(Ken realizes what he's said and starts laughing, audience laughs)
Trebek: "Whoa! Whoooa! Whoa! They teach you that in school in Utah, huh?"
(correct question: "What is a rake?")
On his upcoming book
"...The book is actually erotica. Game show erotica. I believe it's what the people want."
On Jeopardy! Loss
"I was pretty sure before the [Final Jeopardy] music ended that was the ballgame."
"I would have dwelt on it if I missed something that I knew or didn't phrase it in the form of a question...It was a big relief to me that I lost to someone who played a better game than me."
"The fact that they [all luck] had all fallen my way was beginning to worry me, because at some point the law of averages was going to kick in."
"It didn't really hit me that [missing the competition] was going to be the hard part...I thought the hard part would be the loss."
"I felt a strange set of emotions. Surprisingly, a lot of it was relief. The suspense was over. So many lucky things had to fall just right. There were many, many squeakers."
"I sort of feel like some career CIA man who's finally quit the agency and doesn't have to keep any secrets anymore. It's been pretty hard, first to have to keep the secrets of all the wins and then to have to keep the secret of the loss. It's a big relief to be done with secrets."
"When the game aired, there was maybe a flash of disappointment realizing you really only get one chance in your life to play 'Jeopardy!' Mine has gone on far too long, but now it's over. It's sort of sad to realize I won't be able to come back and have the same fun again."
"But the main feeling was just relief. My life has been on hold for so long while I waited to see how long this crazy 'Jeopardy!' ride would last."
"It came down to Nancy playing a very good game, much better than me. "Everything [goes] so fast and, once Nancy won the game, I felt some immediate sense of relief. It was so nice to realize that I finally knew how the story was going to end. My life had been in some holding pattern for six months while this whole 'Jeopardy' thing happened, so it was nice to move on."
"I'm actually cheering for somebody to beat my record. How cool would that be? But, realistically, I don't think there's much of a chance... so many lucky things had to happen. Everything had to fall the right way."
On his influence and popularity
"Maybe it's because they're most awed by disposable celebrity. But I think there are some kids who got the idea that it may be a little cooler to know stuff and to read and to learn. If watching me on TV convinces some kid that they've got some future in knowledge, that would be very rewarding to me."
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