Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings comes to Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Greatest Jeopardy Contestant of each clip and the existent big of the crippled show, Ken Jennings, thrilled an assemblage contiguous astatine the Saroyan Theater successful Downtown Fresno.

Jennings took the signifier astatine the San Joaquin Valley Town Hall talker series.

He answered questions from a radical of precocious schoolhouse honors students anterior to the show.

Action News caught up with him backstage to speech astir Jeopardy and lifelong learning arsenic the cardinal to success.

"But I've learned a batch from Jeopardy astir conscionable however to beryllium a idiosyncratic and what works successful the satellite and what doesn't work, and a batch of it is conscionable the powerfulness of knowledge, conscionable being a funny person, ever trying to larn arsenic overmuch arsenic you tin each time successful galore ways. I'm a large believer successful that," helium said.

Jennings says his dada was a large instrumentality of writer William Saroyan and helium grew up speechmaking and loving the Fresno native's books.

I had the pleasance of introducing Jennings astatine today's Town Hall, arsenic good arsenic six erstwhile Jeopardy contestants from Fresno, including the "Voice of the Bulldogs" Paul Loeffler, who was successful the Teen Tournament successful the 1990's.

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