“ ‘Jeopardy!’ is so terrifying,” Ken Jennings says. “I think at home it plays as kind of calming and cerebral, but in person, for these poor civilians, it’s very intense.”
In 2003, Ken Jennings was a twenty-nine-year-old software engineer, living in a suburb of Salt Lake City with his wife and young son, when his old college roommate suggested that they try out for “Jeopardy!” A year later, Jennings, a trivia enthusiast who’d grown up watching the show, made it on the air, had a seventy-four-game winning streak, and won more than $2.5 million, becoming the winningest “Jeopardy!” contestant of all time.
It’s got the most prosaic origin story possible. I was in an airport, and they had one of those ubiquitous “five hundred places to see before you die” books, but I was looking at it upside down, so I thought it said “500 Places to Die Before You See.” And I was, like, Wow, now that’s a funny book! Some friends and I were about to get on a plane, and I was, like, I think I have a pitch for my next book, but it’s super hacky because all I have is the title.
It seemed mildly radical when Amy Schneider kind of zinged the two other contestants. And then you zinged her about her number of wins.” Like, It’s against God’s law!We have a traditionalist audience in general, for good reason. It’s a show that people watch as a matter of ritual. They’re watching because it reminds them of watching with Grandma, watching with their friends in the dorm. And I have to honor that.
Honestly, the TV shows took the most time. It was, like, I guess I have to watch every episode of “Dead Like Me”? Because you’re not watching the show for the show. You’re watching the show for the rules—here’s how the ghosts in this haunted house behave, here’s how the guardian angels operate—because the conceit is you’re writing a travelogue. It’s a lot of time spent in university libraries, trying to find the Buddhist sutras that actually tell you, O.K.
I was actually going to mention bureaucracy. A lot of thought seems to have gone into how it’s all organized and run.
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