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Ken Jennings Quotes

American - Celebrity | May 23, 1974 -

When you see people who are really good at game shows, the one common attribute is a cool head under pressure: an ability to perform as well in the studio, surrounded by lights and noise, as you do on your couch.

Good People Cool Game Pressure You

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.

Best Win Night Trying You Know

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

Slow Knowing Answers Being Very

The future is here.

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.

Alone Poetry Questions You Physics

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.

Design Questions You Know Thirty

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.

End Remember Now Top Same Names

We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.

Drive Realize Outside Hard Century

I can't relax and sink back in the couch and watch 'Jeopardy!' the way I used to.

Relax Back Way Watch Couch Used

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

Lifetime Kids Condemned Illiteracy

I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.

Maps Stare Would Hours Delaware

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.

Moment Decision Brain Facts You May

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