Five years after he took the host’s lectern on Jeopardy! for the first time, Ken Jennings is getting his flowers from grateful fans of the game show.
In a Reddit post on Sunday, user bluegambit875 marked the five-year anniversary of the airing of Jennings’ first show as interim host following the death of predecessor Alex Trebek.
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