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The Internet's Candid Conversation With Ken Jennings

Smited human representative and world record holding Jeopardy Ken Jennings participated in an "online discussion with Reddit":http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fwpzj/iama_74time_jeopardy_champion_ken_jennings_i_will/, known within the community as...

Smited human representative and world record holding Jeopardy champion,Ken Jennings participated in an online discussion with Reddit, known within the community as an IAmA (I am a…), AMA (Ask Me Anything). Choice bits include his ‘kryptonite’ Jeopardy categories,

I remember COUNTRY MUSIC kept showing up. That or HOCKEY. Least favorite categories. Basically anything with a mullet is my Jeopardy kryptonite.

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musings on his mini-celebrity among the nursing home community,

Old people can’t keep their dry, lilac-scented hands off me. Man, do old people ever love Jeopardy. I can’t go anywhere in public where there might be old people, like Hallmark stores or cemeteries.

and a flowing limerick discussing the sex appeal of Alex Trebek’s moustache.

Wait, I got it. There once was a host named Trebek,
Whose mustache was sexy as heck.
It would have been weird If he’d grown a big beard,
Like Conan, or Riker on Trek.

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