Ken Jennings is discovering one thing to do to maintain himself busy as he’s on summer time break from filming Jeopardy!. The host shared a brand new guide challenge that he mentioned he has to “work out.”
“How do you report an audiobook of a 5,000-question puzzle guide?” he requested on Instagram on Monday, June 2. “Does Will Shortz should do crossword audiobooks?”
“I’ve to determine this out this week or @Simon.Audio goes to need their a reimbursement. When you have religion that this can work and need to pre-order the audiobook, there’s a hyperlink within the feedback under,” he continued.
Ken Jennings then shared a photograph of the duvet of the brand new guide referred to as The Full Kennections: 5,000 Questions in 1,000 Puzzles. The quilt has a photograph of the host on it with a finger to his temple, wanting up as he offers a considering expression.
The second photograph featured Jennings sitting in a room in his home that has books from the ground to the ceiling. He smiled as he sat in entrance of a microphone, able to report.
The Full Kennections is the primary trivia guide by Ken Jennings in additional than a decade. It’s being revealed by Simon & Schuster and will probably be launched through audio, paperback ($20.99), and e-book on July 29, just some days after this season of Jeopardy! ends. The 480-page guide will be bought at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and wherever audiobooks stream.
The synopsis reads, “5 trivia questions. 5 solutions that share a secret theme. What’s the ‘Kennection?’”
It continues, “Since 2012, Jeopardy! champion and host Ken Jennings has created a weekly puzzle—first showing in Parade, then Psychological Floss—involving a sequence of trivia questions whose solutions have one thing in frequent. The trivia questions run the gamut of subjects—from popular culture (motion pictures, TV, music) to educational information (historical past, geography, the humanities) to way of life (food and drinks, sports activities, hobbies). However the trickiest half is likely to be discovering the ‘Kennection’ that hyperlinks all 5 solutions. Many are commonplace trivia classes (D-Day seashores! Presidential center names! Santa’s reindeer! Batman villains!), however nearly something goes, so considering outdoors the field is simply as necessary as trivia information. What do toes, McDonald’s, fingerprints, and St. Louis have in frequent? All of them have arches. What about Mercury, Chihuahuas, electrons, and Rhode Island? They’re all of the smallest of their sort. Columbia, Grease, and ‘I Ran’ (by A Flock of Seagulls)? They’re homophones for nations of the world.”
“For the primary time, the Kennections canon is out there in a single handy quantity, with tons of of recent and up to date quizzes. The Full Kennections is the proper present for any Jeopardy! fan, trivia buff, or New York Instances “Connections” puzzler,” it ends.
Though Jennings isn’t any stranger to releasing books, that is the primary time he’s recording the audio for one in all them.
He’s additionally the writer of The Junior Genius Guides sequence, As a result of I Stated So!: The Reality Behind the Myths, Tales, & Warnings Each Technology Passes Right down to Its Children, Brainiac, Planet Humorous, Ken Jennings’s Trivia Almanac: 8,888 Questions in 365 Days, Maphead: Charting the Vast, Bizarre World of Geography Wonks, and 100 Locations to See Earlier than You Die.
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