Ken Jennings Didn’t Want to Compete in Jeopardy!’s GOAT Tournament

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.KenJennings initially didn’t want to compete in Jeopardy’s Greatest of All Time Tournament, ‘which sure looks pretty dumb now’

Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Image Frasier Crane. Kurt Cobain. Ken Jennings. Only one of these Seattle icons just won Jeopardy!’s Greatest of All Time tournament, with KJ transforming into his final initialed persona, GOAT, with a formidable win over fellow contestants James Holzhauer and Brad Rutter.

Can you speak to how your preparation and strategy changed to face off against James and Brad, as opposed to competing against just Brad in the past? You said last year that if you ever faced James in a tournament, it would psychologically be an uphill battle for you, given factors like an age difference and preferred strategies. Now that you’ve played him and won, was the experience as difficult as you anticipated?

Besides Alex Trebek divulging that he saw Knives Out and loved it, did he share any other amusing anecdotes throughout your four matches?

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