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Ken Jennings and Brandon Sanderson have an extended friendship that dates again to their faculty days at BYU.
If you understand something about their relationship, it shouldn’t come as an excessive amount of of a shock that when Sanderson appeared in a current “Jeopardy!” clue, Jennings, the present’s co-host, couldn’t let the second finish there.
“Wow, I assume nearly anyone can get in a ‘Jeopardy!’ clue these days,” Jennings shared on Twitter after the sport aired on Jan. 31.
However Sanderson — described within the “Jeopardy!” clue because the “prolific” writer who completed “The Wheel of Time” sequence — needed the final phrase.
“Don’t fear, Ken,” he wrote. “Possibly someday you’ll be well-known sufficient to be a Jeopardy! clue.”
Don't fret, Ken. Possibly someday you may be well-known sufficient to be a Jeopardy! clue. https://t.co/Xy3D2OuFba
— Brandon Sanderson (@BrandSanderson) February 1, 2023
Brandon Sanderson and Ken Jennings had been roommates at BYU
This isn’t the primary time Sanderson and Jennings have roasted one another.
The 2 had been roommates at Brigham Younger College in 2000 — 4 years earlier than Jennings made his legendary run on “Jeopardy!” and 5 years earlier than Sanderson would get a manuscript printed, Meg Walter wrote for the Deseret Information.
In his 2011 e book “Maphead,” Jennings recounts his time with Sanderson at BYU.
Right this moment's class takes us past our creativeness 🪐
— Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) February 2, 2023
Which sci-fi & fantasy sequence would you wish to see on #Jeopardy! within the ✨future✨? pic.twitter.com/IHwMRO4NWt
“Brandon and I had been faculty roommates a decade in the past, and in most of my reminiscences of him, he’s following certainly one of his roommates across the condominium, studying aloud passages from his newest cumbersome fantasy manuscript, presumably half three of some eight-volume saga the place all of the characters had prolonged names filled with apostrophes,” he wrote, per Deseret Information. “On the time I used to be amused by Brandon’s antics, however hey, no less than it was a pleasing shock to not be the nerdiest man within the condominium for a change.”
Almost a decade later, in January 2020, Jennings received the “Jeopardy!” Best of All Time event, defeating Brad Rutter and James Holzhauer over an exciting four-night occasion and claiming the GOAT title — and a $1 million prize.
Sanderson was certainly one of many to supply congratulations.
“A giant congratulations to @KenJennings, my previous faculty housemate, on his win tonight!” he wrote on Twitter. “Most individuals know him for sport present appearances, however he’s an excellent author as effectively. I recommend his e book Maphead, if you're .”
And once more, if you understand something about their friendship, Jennings was incapable of responding with a easy “thanks.”
“Oh positive, advocate the e book you seem in!” he wrote.
Oh positive, advocate the e book you seem in!
— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) January 15, 2020
What's the ‘Jeopardy!’ internet hosting schedule?
Jennings has been internet hosting “Jeopardy!” all season lengthy, however Mayim Bialik, his fellow-co-host, will step in starting Feb. 20 for the Excessive Faculty Reunion Match, the Deseret Information reported.
“Jeopardy!” named Jennings and Bialik because the present’s everlasting co-hosts in July 2022.