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Ken Jennings

74-time Jeopardy! champion and now its host

How we know it's theirs

His 2011 r/IAmA AMA, posted from this account

We retrieved 6 posts and 50 comments from u/WatsonsBitch, dated 2011 to 2025, most often in r/IAmA, r/AskReddit and r/trivia.

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A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “I am Ken Jennings. I was on Jeopardy! for six months a very long time ago. My new book about comedy is called PLANET FUNNY. AMA!”

Hi Ken. What are the odds of you joining my trivia team for a night in Seattle? The same villainous team has been been winning for months on end and it would be oh-so-satisfying to see them lose. I’ll buy you a beer, if that sweetens the pot.

u/WatsonsBitch replied

I did this for my son's ninth-grade bar trivia team last month. (This bar does trivia in the all-ages area, apparently.) They were tired of perpetually losing and brought me in as a ringer. I tried to warn my son…

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I did this for my son's ninth-grade bar trivia team last month. (This bar does trivia in the all-ages area, apparently.) They were tired of perpetually losing and brought me in as a ringer.

I tried to warn my son that we might not win just because I was there...but then we ended up winning by a huge margin, so I think he probably learned several terrible life lessons.

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A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “I am Jeopardy!'s Ken Jennings. My new book Because I Said So! was written with the help of Redditors so thanks! AMA baby.”

Any chance of you taking over as the host of Jeopardy if/when Alex Trebek retires. Any discussions to that effect happening?

u/WatsonsBitch replied

We need to get that rumor started. I'd say there's virtually no chance, since they would probably interview people WITH ACTUAL TV HOSTING EXPERIENCE. But that said, what a dream job. I would take it in a heartbeat. Trebek works…

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We need to get that rumor started. I'd say there's virtually no chance, since they would probably interview people WITH ACTUAL TV HOSTING EXPERIENCE.

But that said, what a dream job. I would take it in a heartbeat. Trebek works on-set like 4-5 days a month, and I'm sure a big Sony truck full of cash backs up to his house once or twice a week. I just need to work on my French pronunciation and my transparently false sympathy at wrong answers.

Context: Jennings became a host of Jeopardy! in 2021 and its sole host in 2023. Source

A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “I am Ken Jennings. I was on Jeopardy! for six months a very long time ago. My new book about comedy is called PLANET FUNNY. AMA!”

If you had to do it all over again, would you still answer "What's a hoe?"?

u/WatsonsBitch replied

As I opened my mouth, I realized "Waaaait a second there is no way the Jeopardy answer here is 'What's a hoe.'" But it was too late. At some point, I think my Jeopardy run will be entirely forgotten except…

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As I opened my mouth, I realized "Waaaait a second there is no way the Jeopardy answer here is 'What's a hoe.'" But it was too late.

At some point, I think my Jeopardy run will be entirely forgotten except for this one answer. I will run for president in 2032 as the "What's a hoe?" guy and it will be my "Where's the beef?"