June 2nd

On this day - June 2 2004 - Ken Jennings starts his Jeopardy run

Ken Jennings or Kenneth Wayne Jennings III is a American game show contestant and author. In his run he won 74 Jeopardy shows for a that won him over 2,500 000 USD. Jennings is the second all time money winner in tv gameshows with over 4,000 000 USD in winnings. The person who has earned most is Brad Rutter who beat Jennings in Jeopardy Battle of the Decades. In the battle of the Decades Brad won 1000 000 and Jennings won 100 000. Both contestants was part of the IBM Challenge where IBMs supercomputer Watson played against the Brad and Jennings. Watson was the next big challenge project for IBM after Deep Blue. Watson won that challenge and Jennings came 2nd. Jennings has published the book Brainiac: "Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs"