Ken Jennings Quotes

• 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 actors -- malleable entities like ethnicities, for example -- are as powerful and important as the ones with governments and borders. Where on a map can you point to al-Qaeda? Or Google, or Wal-Mart? Everywhere and nowhere.

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  Powerful, Government, Ethnicity

  Ken Jennings (2012). “Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Men, Earth, Firsts

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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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  Decision, Google, Brain

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.

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  Nerd, Pay, Sometimes

  "THE TV WATCH; O.K., Alex, Smart Nerds For $1 Million" by Alessandra Stanley, www.nytimes.com. July 13, 2004.

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• The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing.

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  Sacred Things, Sacred, Things You Like

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. December 7, 2012.

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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 to us, won’t let us look anywhere else in the room if there’s a map on the wall.

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  Wall, Our World, Looks

  Ken Jennings (2012). “Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.

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  Kids, Vacation, Comic

  FaceBook post by Ken Jennings from Mar 15, 2012

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• There’s just something hypnotic about maps.

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  Maps, Hypnotic

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• I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

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  Cities, Smell, Library

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• 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 funny. What would he write? "Best Wishes, Some Guy in a Bird Suit"?"

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  Writing, Blue, Games

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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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  Cities, Realizing, Century

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

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  Knowing, Buzzers, Answers

  "Jeopardy! Champ Ken Jennings". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 15, 2011.

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• For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., wheres theres crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.

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  Children, Florida, Apples

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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  Flying, Secret, Trying

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• If youre a vegan who ran a marathon & got your dogs from a shelter, how do you decide which thing to wedge into the conversation first?

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  Dog, Shelter, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Ken Jennings from Apr 19, 2012

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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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  America, Exotic Places, Want

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• Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer

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  Comedian, Cameras, Way

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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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  Relax, Watches, Way

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• I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.

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  Atlas, Pleasure

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• I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.

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  Maps, Hours, Delaware

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• It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.

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  Winning, Guy, Boring

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• For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.

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  Kids, Reason, Devoted

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• People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often as simple as a piece of Tupperware hidden in the woods. You go to a website, you get the latitude and longitude to get the specific location of a certain specific hiding space, and then you go there and see if you can find it.

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  Simple, Space, Gps

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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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  Winning, Night, Trying

  "Jeopardy! Champ Ken Jennings". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 15, 2011.

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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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  Watches, Boards, Physics

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