Ken Jennings Quotations

I can't relax and sink back in the couch and watch 'Jeopardy!' the way I used to.

I have always loved maps.

I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls to us, won’t let us look anywhere else in the room if there’s a map on the wall.

Sure I have a cell-phone, so I don't have to remember everyone's number anymore, but that really wasn't a core part of my brain.

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.

I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.