I Meet Ken Jennings
Last night, Ken Jennings of Jeopardy! fame had a book signing event at the Barnes & Noble in Chelsea. There were probably around eighty people there. Ken spoke for a bit and took some questions from the audience. Then he hosted an informal trivia game, giving away a free copy of his new book, Ken Jennings’s Trivia Almanac, to the two winners.
After the event, he was signing books. He signed my free copy of the Trivia Almanac “To Bill — The Chelsea Barnes & Noble Trivia Champ!”
I mentioned that I was a regular reader of his blog and poster to his message board. He didn’t recognize the name, understandably, but when I said “Shakespeare Teacher” he lit up. He told me that he had been to the blog and was in admiration of the 3-D Pic Tac Toe puzzles. He told me “I wouldn’t have thought that was possible.” I had a good comeback. “I wouldn’t have thought it was possible to win 74 consecutive games of Jeopardy!”
I asked if he would sign my copy of his first book, Braniac, and he signed it “To Bill — My Pic Tac Toe Guru!” which absolutely made my day.
In person, Ken turns out to be exactly the nice down-to-earth guy you’d expect him to be from his public persona. It was a great pleasure to meet him.
January 16th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
go you!!
January 20th, 2008 at 3:35 am
That is way awesome!
September 12th, 2010 at 11:51 am
I tried to find the most appropriate topic to post this… I haven’t posted the five good questions you asked of me off of kenjennings.com because he banned me off the website one hour after you asked me the ultimatum. I told him that I was sorry, but he hasn’t responded… Anyway, I have created my own blog about random facts that I am really excited about. The website is http://www.factingfun.wordpress.com
You have a very nice website and I look forward to reading it!
September 14th, 2010 at 8:01 pm
Thanks, Frank!
Welcome to the site, and good luck with yours.
September 21st, 2010 at 1:37 pm
One question, why is there two shakespeare teacher titles???
September 22nd, 2010 at 4:28 am
You have a double banner? I’ve seen that glitch before. I don’t know what causes it.
September 22nd, 2010 at 7:34 pm
Hmmm…. I blame it on fate… ALthough I barely know your name, you should try out for Jeopardy… You exhibit a lot of knowledge on this website.
September 23rd, 2010 at 10:20 am
So. Freakin. Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!