Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
Ken Jennings set a record based on the theory that he intentionally stopped 74 games of “Jeopardy!” Consecutive wins.
During a Q&A session with viewers on Tuesday’s episode of “Inside Jeopardy,” a fan told Jennings that his question “has been bothering (him) for 20 years.”
“Are you sure you didn’t know the answer to the last ‘last crisis’ question?” the man asked.
Jennings quipped, “For 20 years, this gentleman thought I took a dive. …Would he ever be willing to quit a $70,000-an-hour job?”
Fans shouted that Jennings was “bored” of winning so many rounds.
“Bored? Bored, no,” the game show host, 51, replied.
“I think most people who ask me this question just want to say one thing: ‘Ken, I knew it was H&R Block,’ and that’s what this question is about,” Jennings added.
A software engineer once said that if he had all day to answer the question, “It’s dangerous!” In response to the question, he said, “I wouldn’t have understood.”
“Long runs like this always seem inevitable until something happens, and then all of a sudden it’s not so inevitable,” he said.
Jennings earned $2.5 million during a 74-fight winning streak from June 2, 2004 to November 30, 2004.
The father of two ended his streak by answering this last clue incorrectly. “Most of the company’s 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees only work four months a year.”
Mr. Jennings speculated, “What is FedEx?” The correct answer was “What is H&R Block?”
At the time of “Danger!” for many years. Jennings took over as host of the popular game show after host Alex Trebek passed away in 2020 after battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
