Ken Jennings has gained quite a celebrity status for being the person to win the most money on the Jeopardy game show ever. In fact, he holds the record for the most money won on a TV trivia game show ever. He achieved this feat with 74 consecutive wins on Jeopardy! probably the most popular trivia game show ever.

 His career on TV saw him winning $2.5 million dollars (!) before being ousted by a software engineer from Utah. Throughout his run, Jennings maintained a very modest stature and made clear that his run was due to a wide and varied knowledge of facts, and not to some super-intelligence.

 "It's related to intelligence," Jennings told ABC's Nightline. "To some degree, I think it's sort of a parlor trick to have all these facts and be able to pull them out at the drop of a hat. It doesn't make you smart in the same way that Stephen Hawking is smart or some guy researching cures for cancer is smart."

 This is a good point for anyone who like to play trivia games for money. You don't have to be a genius to earn big bucks. It's more about being methodic in studying and acquiring a wider general knowledge of facts and figures. Basically, what he is saying is "anyone can do it". Of course there are very few people that can do it as well as he did.

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