Ken Jennings: Not-So-Trivial Pursuits (minicast) - Jan. 12, 2010

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🗓️ 12 January 2010

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Grant interviews 'Jeopardy!' champion Ken Jennings about the grueling nature of TV quiz shows, the fine art of writing trivia questions, the special challenges of competing in European quiz contests, and how it feels to answer incorrectly. You can hear him try to puzzle out the answer to our slang quiz in this episode. http://www.waywordradio.org/bless-your-heart/ Find out more about Ken here. http://www.ken-jennings.com/index.html -- Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time: Email: [email protected] Phone: United States toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673 London +44 20 7193 2113 Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771 Site: http://waywordradio.org. Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/ Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/ Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/ Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2010, Wayword LLC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.0	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:38.0	Today we've got a few minutes with Ken Jennings, the Quizmaster and the All-time Jeopardy champion, Ken can be found at his website at
0:46.2	Ken hyphen Jennings.com.
0:48.6	Welcome to the program, Ken.
0:50.0	Thanks for having me.
0:51.6	I did read your website. I read the FAQs so that I wouldn't ask the same old
0:54.5	questions, but I kind of have an inverse to some of the questions that you tend to get asked
1:01.0	over and over again. What is it like when you fail?
1:04.0	Are there like special circumstances that come up to that as like, is there a thing that you didn't
1:08.1	do or a thing that you didn't do properly that leads you to know that you're like,
1:11.9	oh, I'm not going to get this.
1:13.0	I'm, today is not my day.
1:15.0	You know, I get, I feel all the time because, you know, people see on a game show and they think well
1:23.6	this has done very well clearly he's some kind of you know
1:26.2	omission trivia computer
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