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Kenneth Jennings (other)
Ken Jennings (born 1974) is an American game show contestant and '' Jeopardy!'' host. Ken Jennings or Kenneth Jennings may also refer to: * Ken Jennings (actor) (born 1947), American actor * Kenneth Jennings (conductor) (1925–2015), American choral conductor and composer * Kenneth Jennings (cricketer) (born 1953), South African cricketer * Kenneth Jennings (priest) (1930–2007), Dean of Gloucester {{hndis, Jennings, Ken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Jennings
Kenneth Wayne Jennings III (born May 23, 1974) is an American game show host, author, and former game show contestant. He is the highest-earning American game show contestant, having won money on five different game shows, including $4,522,700 on the U.S. game show ''Jeopardy!'' which he currently hosts, sharing duties with Mayim Bialik. He holds the record for the longest winning streak on ''Jeopardy!'' with 74 consecutive wins. He also holds the record for the highest average correct responses per game in ''Jeopardy!'' history (for those contestants with at least 300 correct responses) with 35.9 during his original run (no other contestant has exceeded 30) and 33.1 overall, including tournaments and special events. In 2004, he won 74 consecutive ''Jeopardy!'' games before he was defeated by challenger Nancy Zerg on his 75th appearance. His total earnings on ''Jeopardy!'' are $4,522,700, consisting of: $2,520,700 over his 74 wins; a $2,000 second-place prize in his 75th appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeopardy!
''Jeopardy!'' is an American game show created by Merv Griffin. The show is a quiz competition that reverses the traditional question-and-answer format of many quiz shows. Rather than being given questions, contestants are instead given general knowledge clues in the form of answers and they must identify the person, place, thing, or idea that the clue describes, phrasing each response in the form of a question. The original daytime version debuted on NBC on March 30, 1964, and aired until January 3, 1975. A nighttime syndicated edition aired weekly from September 1974 to September 1975, and a revival, '' The All-New Jeopardy!'', ran on NBC from October 1978 to March 1979 on weekdays. The syndicated show familiar with modern viewers and produced daily (currently by Sony Pictures Television) premiered on September 10, 1984. Art Fleming served as host for all versions of the show between 1964 and 1979. Don Pardo served as announcer until 1975, and John Harlan announced for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Jennings (actor)
Kenneth Jennings (born October 10, 1947) is an American stage actor, most famous for his role as Tobias Ragg in the 1979 Broadway premiere of Stephen Sondheim's '' Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street''. Jennings received the 1979 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for this role. He has also performed in several other shows, including ''Urinetown'' in 2001. Jennings was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He attended St. Peter's Preparatory School and St. Peter's College, both Catholic schools located in his hometown of Jersey City. He performed the voice of Dinty Doyle in the 1981 Rankin/Bass stop motion animated Christmas special ''The Leprechauns' Christmas Gold'', as well as Hunter #2 in the 1982 animated film ''The Last Unicorn''. NYC theatre credits * 1975: '' All God's Chillun Got Wings'' – Shorty * 1979: ''Sweeney Todd'' – Tobias Ragg * 1985: ''Mayor'' – Ensemble * 1989: ''Grand Hotel'' – Georg Strunk * 1994: ''A Christmas Carol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Jennings (conductor)
Kenneth L. Jennings (May 13, 1925 – August 20, 2015) was an American choral conductor and composer. He was the Harry R. and Thora Helseth Tosdal Professor of Music Emeritus and Director Emeritus of the St. Olaf Choir. He was a published arranger, composer, and choral music educator. Biography Jennings grew up in Fairfield and Westport, Connecticut. ''', September 12, 2015 He was an alumnus of and sang as a member of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Jennings (cricketer)
Kenneth Jennings (born 25 August 1953) is a South African former cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...er who played five first-class matches for Northerns between 1981 and 1983. References External links * 1953 births Living people South African cricketers Northerns cricketers People from Vanderbijlpark Cricketers from Gauteng {{SouthAfrica-cricket-bio-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
