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Ken Jennings was on Jeopardy! 75 times in a row, so long that your grandma got sick of him. He is the author of nine books, most recently the Junior Genius Guides for children. He lives in Seattle.

Kennection #267

What brand of bubble gum is named after the "Stovepipe" anti-tank weapon of World War II?

Kennection #266

GOTO and GOSUB were keywords in what "beginner's all-purpose" computer language, developed in 1964?

Kennection #265

Joan of Arc is often called "la Pucelle d'Orleans" in French. What word do we usually use in English instead of "Pucelle"?

Kennection #264

What Cyndi Lauper song—her first #1—did jazz trumpeter Miles Davis cover in hundreds of his concerts?

Kennection #263

Challah, eaten on the Jewish Sabbath, is a special braided type of what food?

Kennection #262

All of the Simpsons' cats are given what name, even though they have black fur, not white?

Kennection #261

What Broadway musical celebrates, in its opening number, "the ten-dollar Founding Father without a father"?

Kennection #260

Harvard's annual "freshman week" always features a much-heckled screening of what 1970 Ryan O'Neal movie?

Kennection #259

What palace southwest of Paris has 1,400 fountains in its famous gardens?

Kennection #258

The chemical element with the longest name, element 104, honors what physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus?

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