SENATE RESOLUTION 8704

BySenators Kuderer,Hunt,Das,Wellman,Mullet, Takko, Dhingra, Conway,Saldaña, Lovelett,Nguyen,Hobbs,Cleveland,Wilson,C.,Keiser, Pedersen, Carlyle,Billig, Frockt, Randall, Darneille, McCoy, Van De Wege, Liias, Hasegawa, and King

1 WHEREAS,KenJenningswas bornin Edmonds, Washington, onMay 23, 1974, and grew up watching Jeopardy!; and2 3 WHEREAS,KenJennings, whoplayed QuizBowlin college, was 4 invitedtocompete on Jeopardy! forthefirst time onthe June2, 2004, episode of the 20th season; and5 6 WHEREAS,ManycurrentQuizBowl champscovet his renowned "Potent Potables" flashcards; and7 8 WHEREAS,KenJenningswon 74consecutive appearanceson Jeopardy! 9 makinghima giant in the eyes of Alex Trebekand thehistory of Jeopardy!; and10 11 WHEREAS,KenJenningsset a world record formost cash won on a 12 and a Jeopardy! record for the longest streak of wins; and 13 WHEREAS,KenJennings becameknownacross the country as "the 14 Michael Jordan of trivia, the Seabiscuit of geekdom"; and 15 WHEREAS,KenJenningshas a strong Kennection toWashington and lives in the City of ; and16 17 WHEREAS,KenJenningsis a prolific authorand hasshared his 18 genius with children through his Junior Genius Guides series; and 19 WHEREAS,SeattleTimesreadersare inspired byhis choice in 20 booksandallcopies of "The NewDictionaryof Cultural Literacy"are currently on hold at local libraries; and21 22 WHEREAS,If Jeopardy! gaveoutrings, he would certainlybe a lord of them; and23 p. 1 8704 1 WHEREAS, may not be smarter than a 5th grader, but is unquestionably a brilliant mind; and2 3 WHEREAS, Ken Jennings knows without help from or the 4 computer overlords that Iago has 272 speeches, the most of any nontitle character in a Shakespeare tragedy; and5 6 WHEREAS, Ken Jennings won the Greatest of All Time 7 Championship game of Jeopardy! on January 14, 2020; and 8 WHEREAS, Becoming a G.O.A.T. is considered worthy of honor from his home state; and9 10 WHEREAS, Ken Jennings exhibited an admirable camaraderie 11 with his Jeopardy! G.O.A.T. co-contestants, and 12 , showing the world how to compete at an elite level 13 while also having fun on and off screen, often at each other's 14 expense, even with the grand title and one million dollars on the line; and15 16 WHEREAS, Ken Jennings is a home state hero and the people's 17 champ for his intelligence and fleet wit and for his many accomplishments;18 19 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That the answer to the clue 20 "He won the Endgame of Jeopardy! and the Greatest of All Time title," is "Who is Ken Jennings?"; and21 22 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Washington State Senate 23 honor and congratulate Ken Jennings on winning the Jeopardy! 24 Greatest of All Time competition and for his career both on Jeopardy! and off.25

I, Brad Hendrickson, Secretary of the Senate,26 do hereby certify that this is a true and27 correct copy of Senate Resolution 8704,28 adopted by the Senate29 March 3, 202030

BRAD HENDRICKSON31 Secretary of the Senate32

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