| Ken Jennings  AKA Kenneth Wayne Jennings III
Born: 23-May-1974
Birthplace: Edmonds, WA [1]
Gender: Male
Religion: Mormon
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: TV Personality Nationality: United States
Executive summary: $2.5 Million Jeopardy! Contestant Software engineer, who on Jeopardy! won 74 consecutive shows in 2004, and defeated 149 contestants, with winnings totalling $2,520,700 and 2,613 correct questions. The answer that failed him, "Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year." He answered "What is Fed-Ex" (overnight delivery company), but the correct answer is "What is H&R Block?" (tax preparation firm). The show was recorded in September but was kept under wraps until "sweeps week".
Returned to the program in 2011 for a special challenge against a high-power computer dubbed Watson. The computer won, and in a post-show interview Jennings said that his electronic opponent was just like a human Jeopardy contestant: "It's very smart, very fast, speaks in an uneven monotone, and has never known the touch of a woman."
[1] Stevens Memorial Hospital, Edmonds, WA.
Wife: Mindy Boam (m. 2000)
Son: Dylan (b. 2003)
Daughter: Caitlin Elizabeth (b. 2006)
High School: Seoul Foreign School, Seoul, South Korea
University: University of Washington
University: BA English and Computer Science, Brigham Young University
Endorsement of Allstate
Endorsement of Cingular (2005)
Endorsement of FedEx
Endorsement of H&R Block
Endorsement of Microsoft Encarta
Religious Mission: Mormon Madrid, Spain (1993-95)
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Jeopardy! $2.5M winner
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