I got my revenge, though, in a way - he did not qualify for the state geography bee, but the following year, when I became the school champion, I DID. We went head to head for several rounds, but ultimately he bested me - he knew that quinine was used to treat malaria, and I did not. I was the seventh grade Geography Bee champion at our middle school he was the eighth grade champion. True story: my husband and I met because of a geography bee.
Jennings was selected to co-host Jeopardy after the death of Alex Trebek. 100 in 2006, and in 2007 Jennings was the champion of the first season of the US version of Grand Slam. Ken also appeared as a member of the mob sitting in podium #13 from the new game show 1 vs. Jennings held the record for most winnings on any game show ever played until the end of the Ultimate Tournament of Champions (first aired on May 25, 2005), when he was displaced by Brad Rutter, who defeated Jennings in that tournament.Īfter winning, he began working on a book, Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs, which explored American trivia history and culture. His total earnings on Jeopardy! are US$3,022,700 ($2,520,700 in winnings, a $2,000 consolation prize on his 75th appearance, and $500,000 in the Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament of Champions).
syndicated game show Jeopardy! Jennings won 74 games before he was defeated by challenger Nancy Zerg on his 75th appearance. Kenneth Wayne Jennings III holds the record for the longest winning streak on the U.S. If you’re an inveterate map lover yourself-or even if you’re among the cartographically clueless who can get lost in a supermarket-let Ken Jennings be your guide to the strange world of mapheads. Jennings also considers the ways in which cartography has shaped our history, suggesting that the impulse to make and read maps is as relevant today as it has ever been.įrom the “Here be dragons” parchment maps of the Age of Discovery to the spinning globes of grade school to the postmodern revolution of digital maps and GPS, Maphead is filled with intriguing details, engaging anecdotes, and enlightening analysis. Each chapter delves into a different aspect of map highpointing, geocaching, road atlas rallying, even the “unreal estate” charted on the maps of fiction and fantasy. Ken Jennings takes readers on a world tour of geogeeks from the London Map Fair to the bowels of the Library of Congress, from the prepubescent geniuses at the National Geographic Bee to the computer programmers at Google Earth. Record-setting Jeopardy! champion and New York Times bestselling author of Planet Funny Ken Jennings explores the world of maps and map obsessives, “a literary gem” ( The Atlantic ).
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