‘Jeopardy!’ Host Ken Jennings Reveals His Best Trivia Category, and It’s Not What You’d Expect

Ken Jennings may have began his career as a software engineer, but, shockingly, that doesn’t mean the profession has anything to do with his best trivia category.

“One of my stronger categories [is movies],” the Jeopardy! host, 51, revealed to People at the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, Calif., on Thursday, April 30.

“I grew up as a kid reading Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide as if it were … whatever other kids read, Harry Potter or Hardy Boys,” he explained.

Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide is an annual collection of movie reviews that began in 1969, five years after the record-setting Jeopardy! contestant was born.

“My book was the Leonard Maltin Movie Guide, and I just wanted to see everything,” he said, adding, “Luckily, my parents had a wall of VHS [tapes].”

Jennings, who won more than $2.5 million during his historic 2004 streak on the game show, even confessed that his parents “illegally” taped some of his favorite VHS movies off of TCM.

“Sorry. That’s why I’m here to support the network,” he joked.

Although he considers movies to be his best category, the host revealed that he’s continuing to expand his trivia repertoire thanks to a new hobby with his son.

“I’m trying to see all the Major League ballparks with my son,” he told the outlet of Dylan, who Jennings and his wife Mindy welcomed in 2002. (They also share daughter Caitlin, born in 2006.)

“And so a lot of these are places I’ve never been, and so now I’m like, ‘Hey, I have trivia about Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. I know about the fountains and the waterfalls now.’ So I’m accumulating Major League ballpark trivia at an alarming rate,” he said.