Posing questions to "Jeopardy!" champion-turned-host host Ken Jennings
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The category is "Famous Jennings." And the answer is: After being expelled from Jamaica in 1716, this privateer became the unofficial governor of the Pirate Republic of Nassau.
"Oh, I don't know this," said Ken Jennings. "Is one of my pirate forefathers named Jennings?"
[The correct response: "Who is Henry Jennings?"]
On April 15, 1874 – 150 years ago – the first Impressionist exhibition opened on Rue du Capucines in Paris, featuring works by 30 artists, including Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Hosted by the "Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers, etc.," it was founded in response to the Paris Salon, the annual, government-sponsored exhibition that would frequently reject the works of the rising artists.