Jeopardy TV Show

If you haven’t heard the name Ken Jennings, you haven’t done your ‘Jeopardy Homework’ well enough. Because anyone, who has the slightest knowledge about the show, is bound to know the man who holds the coveted record of having won the maximum number of games on the show - a staggering 74!

A total winning amount of $2,520,700!

Umm, okay, stop wondering what you would have done with that amount of money, and come back to reality! What we are talking about here today is not the famous winning streak of Jennings on the show, but an aspect of his personality that not many know about.

Jennings, who has previously written a book by the title ‘Brainiac’, has once again taken on the task of expressing his thoughts in words, this time with a book entitled ‘Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks’.

The book chronicles Jennings’ experiences with maps as a child.

He reveals that he developed a love for maps at a very early age, and was obsessed with them to the extent that he would sleep with a copy of Hammond’s Medallion World Atlas next to him!

He recalls considering his National Geographic maps of the month to be sacred!

For Jennings, maps, geographical terrains, directions, and measuring systems were always a matter of sheer delight. As a kid, Jennings recalls having the Australian capitals on the tips of his fingers. Now that he is one of the most successful game show participants in the country, he keeps his love for maps alive with his passion for games and ultra-cool mapping technologies.

Does he think that these new-age technological breakthroughs are incapacitating the coming generations from being able to read maps?

Yes, but it doesn’t bother him, because of all the added perks that they come with! To see more prodigies like Ken Jennings flaunting their intellect on the show, you can watch Jeopardy online, and must download its episodes!