Need 2 Know: Debate Takeaways, Jeopardy! G.O.A.T. Crowned

Here are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Wednesday, January 15, 2020:

SPOILER ALERT! * JEOPARDY ‘GOAT’: Ken Jennings is officially the greatest Jeopardy! player of all time. Jennings won the primetime tournament on the Final Jeopardy question about who has the most speeches of a non-title character in a Shakespeare tragedy (the answer: Iago from Othello). WATCH

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