Danger! host Ken Jennings admits he ‘gets mean’ on air when contestants don’t follow important rules

KEN Jennings admitted that one thing on Jeopardy! makes him bad.

The game show host said he could get more and more evil if the situation gets worse with each round.

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At the Inside Jeopardy! podcast, the hosts – Sarah Foss and Buzzy Cohen – spoke for the first time with Masters champion Victoria Groce.

After his segment ended, the podcast hosts replayed their segment, Host Chat, where an audience member will ask Ken, 50, a question off-air.

This time, an audience member asked the host what happens when a contestant doesn’t answer in the form of a question.

“Oh, man. Do you know what hanging, drawing and quartering is?” the presenter joked while the audience laughed. “No.”

“The rules are really different in the first and second rounds.”

“In the first round, I might remind them very harshly. I say, ‘Yes, but remember your phrases,'” Ken admitted.

“In the second round, I might give them a second to figure it out and then I’ll have to rule against them and say, ‘Oh, it was Grover Cleveland, but you had to say, ‘What is Grover Cleveland?'”

“It gets worse as the game progresses, as does the life you will encounter,” he concluded.

IMPULSIVE MOVEMENT

Before becoming the host of Jeopardy!, Ken was a player of the game, so he knows the rules probably better than anyone.

He first appeared in 2004, where he won 72 games in a row and took home $37,201 in his first match alone.

“Next month is the 20th anniversary of my first appearance on Jeopardy! In a week or two it’s the 20th anniversary,” the host told the New York-based ABC affiliate. WABC.

“I was a rather unhappy computer programmer at the time, thinking to myself: I should do something different with my life.”

Ken said he went to Jeopardy! “like a whim.”

“So I guess there’s another world where I’m a somewhat unhappy computer programmer and Dr. Oz is hosting ‘Jeopardy!’ It’s a very dark universe”, he joked.

Danger! Universe

Danger! it first aired in 1964 until 1975. Then, the nighttime version began in 1974. Since then, spinoffs of the game show have appeared. Here they are all:

Danger! – (primetime) 1974 to present, weekdays on ABC at 7pm.

Tournament of Champions – 1984 to present, features the top champions who have appeared on the show since the last tournament.

Celebrity Danger! – From 1992 to the present, celebrities compete against each other to raise money for charity.

Danger! Masters – 2023 to present, features six notable recent Jeopardy! champions competing against each other.

Danger! National College Championship – From 2022 to present, undergraduate students from 36 colleges and universities across America compete to win $100,000.

Other versions of Jeopardy! disappeared over the years.

UNDER DEBATE

Recently, a player corrected Ken, despite the host knowing the game like the back of his hand.

During Jeopardy! Masters final on May 22, Yogesh Raut interrupted Ken for a mispronunciation.

Yogesh received the clue: “In 1823, this man of the same name was elevated to superintendent of the survey of India.”

He replied: “Who is Everest”, pronouncing the name Ee-ver-est.

When Ken said the contestant was right, Ken also repeated the answer but used the pronunciation Ever-est.

“He pronounced it Ee-ver-est,” Yogesh replied.

Ken simply laughed when the camera cut to him.

However, the host got his revenge when former NFL player Jason Kelce showed up to read a clue.

“I always smile knowingly when I hear their music, ‘Ah, push, push good, oh push, push real good,’” he said.

“Who were Salt and Pepa?” Yogesh said, putting extra emphasis on the word and.

“Yeah, I guess they could have said Salt-N-Pepa, but you got it right,” Ken said.

“Like Ee-ver-est.”

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