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Ken Jennings

Ken Jennings was born outside Seattle, but grew up in Seoul, South Korea, where he became a daily devotee of the quiz show Jeopardy!. In 2004, he successfully auditioned for a spot on the show, and went on an unprecedented seventy-four game victory streak worth $2.52 million. Jennings’s book Brainiac, about his Jeopardy! adventures, was a critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller, as was his follow-up, Maphead. He is also the author of Ken Jennings’s Trivia Almanac. Jennings lives in Washington with his wife Mindy, his son Dylan and daughter Caitlin, and a deeply unstable Labrador retriever named Banjo.

Because I Said So! will be released on December 04, 2012 in Paper Over Board, eBook
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Graphic Excerpt:
Maphead
Apr 28, 2012
Maphead will be released on April 17, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Apr 17, 2012
Maphead is now available in Trade Paperback
Apr 17, 2012
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Mar 20, 2012
Author Appearances have been announced:
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Oct 20, 2011
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from Maphead
Sep 23, 2011
Maphead will be released on September 20, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
Sep 20, 2011
Maphead is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Sep 20, 2011
Author Appearances have been announced:
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Sep 10, 2011
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Maphead
Aug 27, 2011

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660 News, May 8, 2012
...out a sippy-cup of apple juice on the curb for the great Maurice Sendak." — Jeopardy uber-champion Ken Jennings, via Twitter...
WDTN, May 8, 2012
...out a sippy-cup of apple juice on the curb for the great Maurice Sendak." — Jeopardy uber-champion Ken Jennings, via Twitter...
Austin360, May 8, 2012
...poured out a sippy-cup of apple juice on the curb for the great Maurice Sendak." Jeopardy uber-champion Ken Jennings, via Twitter...
Central Utah Daily Herald, May 7, 2012
...added the Clue Crew in 2001, removed its five-show winning-streak restriction in 2003, drew new obsessives during superchampion Ken Jennings's 74-win romp in 2004, and gained fresh publicity by pitting an IBM supercomputer against past champions. Has...
Star Ledger, May 6, 2012
...writing is sprightly and her portraits well drawn, with an engaging mixture of humor and justifiable awe. Maphead Ken Jennings Scribner, 276 pp. $25 While Judy Dutton was making the rounds of science fairs, Ken Jennings was taking in the 2009 National...
Cleveland Live, May 4, 2012
..."but few that distract you from its flowing course" as "a grown-up memoir, taut and true." Maphead Ken Jennings $15 Jennings is best known for his six-month winning streak on "Jeopardy!" In "Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks" he...
Louisville Courier-Journal, May 1, 2012
...added the Clue Crew in 2001, removed its five-show winning-streak restriction in 2003, drew new obsessives during superchampion Ken Jennings’s 74-win romp in 2004, and gained fresh publicity by pitting an IBM supercomputer against past champions. There...
Individual.com, April 23, 2012
...Before Ken Jennings ever got hooked on "Jeopardy!" he was hooked on maps. When he was 7, he saved up his allowance money for months to buy a 1979 Hammond's Medallion...
Individual.com, April 21, 2012
...Before Ken Jennings ever got hooked on "Jeopardy!" he was hooked on maps. When he was 7, he saved up his allowance money for months to buy a 1979 Hammond's Medallion...
Ventura County Star, April 21, 2012
...Before Ken Jennings ever got hooked on "Jeopardy!" he was hooked on maps. When he was 7, he saved up his allowance money for months to buy a 1979 Hammond's Medallion...
Individual.com, April 21, 2012
...via COMTEX) -- Who discovered penicillin? Nope, not Marie Curie. Nope, not Louis Pasteur. Maybe we should ask Ken Jennings. "I don't know," he said. "I put Fleming." Yep, Sir Alexander Fleming. That good guess from Jennings, the lifeline at the Whatcom...
Tacoma News Tribune, April 21, 2012
...BELLINGHAM Who discovered penicillin? Nope, not Marie Curie. Nope, not Louis Pasteur. Maybe we should ask Ken Jennings. "I don't know," he said. "I put Fleming." Yep, Sir Alexander Fleming. That good guess from Jennings, the lifeline at the Whatcom...
NPR, April 21, 2012
...the New York state English exam taken by eighth-graders this week has stumped many — including Jeopardy! star Ken Jennings. The story — titled The Pineapple and the Hare — was included in a New York Daily News story . "Is this a joke? The story...
Bellingham Herald, April 21, 2012
...BELLINGHAM � Who discovered penicillin? Nope, not Marie Curie. Nope, not Louis Pasteur. Maybe we should ask Ken Jennings. "I don't know," he said. "I put Fleming." Yep, Sir Alexander Fleming. That good guess from Jennings, the lifeline at the Whatcom...