Welcome to Kennections, a quiz created by Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings. Here’s how to play: All five answers to the questions below have something in common. Can you figure it out?
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Were you able to crack Jennings’s latest Kennections quiz? Geography experts likely had no trouble figuring out the connection between all five answers.
The Kennections Process
The Jeopardy! host and game show extraordinare has been collaborating with Mental Floss for about a decade through his Kennections quizzes, putting trivia lovers to the test in a unique way. While chatting with us last year, Jennings explained his process for coming up with the questions, noting
“So the trick of Kennections is the questions all have to work on their own as trivia, but then the answers have to work for an overarching theme. And that’s the tricky part,” Jennings shared with Mental Floss. “It generally hinges on things having double meanings, you know? Superman is a comic book, but he’s also a movie. He’s also an exercise. He’s also an R.E.M. song. You know, Superman can be a lot of things, and generally, it’s in those Wikipedia disambiguation pages of double meanings that I come up with these ideas.”
“And it’ll usually just be like, ‘Oh, hey, this could be a theme. Oh, this could be a trivia question, and then maybe I could fit it into a theme. Can I come up with four others?’” he added. “And that’s usually the crux of it. I’ve got a notes app on my phone full of years of failed Kennections ideas, waiting for a fourth or fifth answer.”
Years of game show experience certainly makes Jennings the perfect candidate to create these challenges. In 2025, he released a book titled The Complete Kennections, a compilation of his quizzes for his fans to find in one place.
Jennings’s Future on Jeopardy!
Not only is Jennings a Jeopardy! legend as a competitor, but he’s also seen great success as the host, taking on the job after Alex Trebek’s passing. He’s been nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards, and the show itself won the award for Outstanding Game Show in 2025 with Jennings as its face.
On an episode of Inside Jeopardy, as reported by TV Insider, Jennings made it clear that he’s not planning on leaving his hosting role anytime soon. During a Q&A segment, the former software engineer was asked by an audience member, “It’s pretty early to be thinking this, but have you identified any potential successors?”
Jennings made a joke about the audience member plotting his murder, before recounting what Alex Trebek would say when he was asked the same question.
“People would always ask Alex, and he was very diplomatic,” Jennings recalled. “Sometimes, he would just say whatever he was thinking about. Like if the Kings had just won, he’d be like, ‘Oh, I like the woman who calls the game for the hockey teams.”
“So, I guess, I should just follow the Alex path, and say random people every time I get asked,” he continued. “You know, I haven’t really thought about it. I’m in good health. I do my stretches every game, but clearly Bad Bunny.”
As a former Jeopardy! competitor himself, Jennings brings a special element to his hosting job each episode, connecting with the contestants on a different level.
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