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Pursuing Trivia with Ken Jennings

HISTORY This Week

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Is Ken Jennings the Smartest Man Alive?

Ken jennings won 74 games in a row on jeopardy, still the record for most wins in a row. In its first season, trivial pursuit averaged 29 million viewers per episode. The modern idea that people on jeopardy represent the best and the brightest is "a very, very recent assumption," says John MacIntosh.

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