Welcome to Kennections, a quiz created by Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings. Here’s how to play: All five answers to the questions below have something in common. Can you figure it out?
<section data-block="TextEntry"><h3>1. What author based his character Becky Thatcher on his own childhood crush, Laura Hawkins of Hannibal, Missouri?</h3><ul><li>MARK TWAIN</li><li>TWAIN</li><li>SAMUEL CLEMENS</li><li>SAM CLEMENS</li><li>SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS</li></ul></section><section data-block="TextEntry"><h3>2. Though the current squad plays in Orange County, L.A. has had a baseball team with what name all the way back to 1892?</h3><ul><li>ANGELS</li><li>THE ANGELS</li><li>LOS ANGELES ANGELS</li><li>THE LOS ANGELES ANGELS</li><li>L.A. ANGELS</li><li>THE L.A. ANGELS</li><li>LA ANGELS</li><li>THE LA ANGELS</li><li>L. A. ANGELS</li><li>THE L. A. ANGELS</li></ul></section><section data-block="TextEntry"><h3>3. What TV pitchman has been played by Darrell Hammond and Jim Gaffigan, among others, since the real man’s 1980 death in Louisville?</h3><ul><li>COLONEL SANDERS</li><li>SANDERS</li><li>HARLAND SANDERS</li><li>COLONEL HARLAND SANDERS</li><li>COL. SANDERS</li><li>COL SANDERS</li></ul></section><section data-block="TextEntry"><h3>4. As you might guess from its name, the Nightingale Training School was founded in London in 1860 to educate what professionals?</h3><ul><li>NURSES</li></ul></section><section data-block="TextEntry"><h3>5. Beatrix Kiddo is the real name of what Kill Bill assassin character played by Uma Thurman, shot and left for dead on her wedding day?</h3><ul><li>THE BRIDE</li></ul></section><section data-block="TextEntry"><h3>What’s the Kennection?</h3><p><ol><li><p>MARK TWAIN</p></li><li><p>ANGELS</p></li><li><p>COLONEL SANDERS</p></li><li><p>NURSES</p></li><li><p>BRIDE</p></li></ol></p><ul><li>ALL WEAR WHITE</li><li>WHITE</li></ul></section>
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Emmy Award-nominated host Ken Jennings is now known across his globe as the face of Jeopardy!, but he probably would never have imagined he would become a game show icon growing up. As a child, he lived in South Korea and Singapore for over a decade for his father’s job. During this time, he stayed connected to American TV through Jeopardy! watches every afternoon. His passion for knowledge continued into adulthood, when he captained the quiz bowl squad as a student at Brigham Young University.
By 2004, Jennings rose to fame when competing on Jeopardy! for the first time. Working as a software engineer in Salt Lake City, he was able to benefit from a new rule which allowed competitors to continue on the show indefinitely, which led to him making Jeopardy! history.
Jennings had a 74-game winning streak and took home over $2.5 million. In the years since, he’s competed on other game shows, including the Jeopardy! “Greatest of All Time” competition, which he won against notable competitors Brad Rutter and James Holzhauer in 2020. He’s also appeared on popular series such as Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! and Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?.
Ken Jennings on ‘Jeopardy!’ | Christopher Willard/GettyImages
Jennings became the permanent host of Jeopardy! after Alex Trebek’s passing, bringing a new perspective as a former competitor himself. “I hope it calms people down because I know from experience—it’s very daunting to be placed into that high-pressure cooker environment the very first time, probably, that you’re on TV,” he told Mental Floss last year.
Today, Jennings remains passionate about trivia, creating Kennections quizzes for Mental Floss for about a decade and playing The New York Times’ rival “Connections” game every night with his wife. He continues to prove his eclectic tastes—from Victorian novels to ‘80s pro wrestlers—further positioning himself as the king of trivia.
Love Kennections quizzes? Be sure to check out Jennings’s 2026 book, The Complete Kennections, serving as an archive of his fun and tricky puzzles.
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