Programmer Ken Jennings has won the Jeopardy! TV quiz 74 times. (familiar to us from its Russian counterpart — «Own game»). Jennings describes both what remains behind the scenes of television games and his preparation for them with equal interest.
Programmer Ken Jennings has won the Jeopardy! TV quiz 74 times. (familiar to us from its Russian counterpart — «Own Game»). And this fact in itself inspires respect for the author and his book. Add here the approving foreword of the master “What? Where? When?» Maxim Potashev and the grandmaster of «Own Game» Anatoly Wasserman and an excellent translation of the first world champion in the «Brain Ring» Ilya Ber — and you already get an almost guaranteed bestseller. Jennings describes with equal interest both what goes on behind the scenes of television games and his preparation for them — according to him, in terms of their exhaustion, it resembles the preparation of the hero of the movie «Rocky» for a boxing match. And at the same time, he thinks about his own informational “omnivorousness”, the ability to remember facts, and also about whether TV games can make their viewers and participants smarter.
Mann, Ivanov and Ferber, 300 p.