Ken Jennings rears his nerdy head

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Talk about biting the hand that fed you. Ken Jennings, who in 2004 broke the all-time Jeopardy! records for consecutive wins (74) and prize money ($2.5 million-plus), has slammed the game show in an open letter posted on his Web site. (The site itself seems to have crashed due to traffic.) His basic complaint: that the show is culturally out of touch. “Maybe when Art Fleming was alive, America just couldn’t get enough clues about ‘Botany’ and ‘Ballet’ and ‘The Renaissance,’” Jennings writes.

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