Jeopardy! viewers who’ve performed in opposition to Ken Jennings spoke out about what that have was like. Some contestants additionally performed in opposition to him on one other recreation present, The Chase.
Ken Jennings had a tremendous 74-day successful streak and took part in 75 episodes. So, that’s 150 completely different folks he would have competed in opposition to, as he would have confronted two completely different folks every night time. His authentic run was in 2004, after which he went on to compete in quite a few tournaments. He racked up $2,520,700 in winnings for normal gameplay, which is the very best ever, based on the Jeopardy! web site. Brad Rutter had the very best whole of winnings of all time, which incorporates tournaments. Jennings is presently in second.
“Did anybody right here face Ken Jennings? Is there anybody on this sub that went up in opposition to Ken Jennings in his authentic 75-episode run?” a Reddit consumer wrote.
“I really went up in opposition to him in a crew Quiz Bowl occasion at TCONA* (the Trivia Championships of North America) in….both 2012 or 2013. Curiously sufficient, one among my teammates (and a pal) was Adam Villani, who had put up a valiant struggle in opposition to Ken on Sport 61 of his run (he would later find yourself doing fairly nicely on 500 Questions). My understanding was that Ken roadtripped together with his household all the way down to Las Vegas from Salt Lake Metropolis to take part. To borrow an aphorism from feudal Japan…we died correctly. Ken was a beast – a pleasant beast to make sure, however a beast,” one consumer wrote.
“I performed him on Grasp Minds and I obtained a query proper that he obtained mistaken they usually made it right into a industrial!” a fan mentioned. Grasp Minds initially debuted as Greatest Ever Trivia Present and was renamed in 2020. Jennings was a frequent visitor on it.
“No, however I performed ‘in opposition to’ him on Greatest Ever Trivia Present, later re-named Grasp Minds. And I obtained a query appropriate that he obtained mistaken,” one other Grasp Minds competitor mentioned. “Might have been scripted for him to overlook it however I strive to not dwell on that.”
One consumer mentioned they performed in opposition to on an unaired episode of The Chase. Somebody requested the way it was and why it didn’t air. “It was enjoyable. Had a pleasant interplay with him, and he’s naturally very humorous. It wasn’t aired as a result of it was a rehearsal episode earlier than they began taping season 2. In order that they did all the pieces like an actual episode to follow, simply nothing counted,” they wrote. Nevertheless, they mentioned additionally they performed in opposition to him on Grasp Minds.
“I performed him in a quiz bowl follow as soon as. He smoked everybody on a tossup on the WWE Intercontinental Title. (I do know not what you requested precisely, however I did play him in some type of quizzing, so it’s one thing!),” mentioned one other.
Though nobody from Jeopardy! shared their expertise, somebody instructed that they need to do a redemption season for everybody who went up in opposition to Ken Jennings. “It’d be actually cool to observe,” they mentioned.