Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs

One day back in 2003, Ken Jennings and his college buddy Earl did what hundreds of thousands of people had done before: they auditioned for Jeopardy! Two years, 75 games, 2,642 correct answers, and ov…

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