MASTERMINDS - KEN JENNINGS INTERVIEW

So - you thought you had seen the last of all time Jeopardy! champ Ken Jennings? No way!!! You can’t keep that trivia mastermind away from gameshow territory. He’s back and he’s sharper than ever!!

That’s right! Jeopardy! All-time winning contestant Ken Jennings will square off with contestants in the new trivia game show Master Minds.  

Master Minds, hosted by Emmy®-nominated game show host Brooke Burns (“Baywatch,"“The Chase,") will see if contestants can beat the best trivia minds, including Jeopardy! G.O.A.T (greatest of all time,) Ken Jennings.

Ken Jennings with host Brooke Burns

In each episode, three contestants square off against three trivia Master Minds in multiple rounds of intense trivia competition. The lowest scoring player on each side is eliminated until the top competitor and top Master Mind are left standing and now must face off, head-to-head, in the Ultimate Trivia Challenge. If the contestant can get more questions correct than the Master Mind, they will win $10,000 and come back to challenge the Masters again. If they win three games in a row, they join the ranks of the Master Minds and will appear in future episodes.
The Master Minds the contestants will be facing are Ken Jennings, history buff Muffy Marracco and chess champ Jonathan Corbblah.

Jeopardy! champ Ken Jennings with beloved host, Alex Trebek

Ken Jennings first set records in 2004 as the player with the longest winning streak (74 consecutive games) and most regular-season winnings ($2.52 million) in Jeopardy! history. In January of 2020, Ken made his trivia dominance official, beating out other Jeopardy! greats to be crowned the Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time. Once a computer programmer, today Jennings is the author of twelve books and co-host of the podcast Omnibus. His favorite trivia categories are literature and movies, and his hobbies include hiking and painting. He lives in Seattle with his wife Mindy, two kids, and two dogs.

I spoke with Ken Jennings from his home in Seattle about his time on Jeopardy!, the most valuable thing he has learned from Alex Trebek and all about his new game show, Masterminds.