{"id":2410083,"date":"2026-05-10T12:50:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2410083"},"modified":"2026-05-10T12:50:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:50:48","slug":"ken-jennings-revealed-the-new-trivia-subject-hes-trying-to-master-and-its-not-what-you-might-expect-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ken-jennings-revealed-the-new-trivia-subject-hes-trying-to-master-and-its-not-what-you-might-expect-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Jennings Revealed the New Trivia Subject He\u2019s Trying to Master, and It\u2019s Not What You Might Expect (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ken Jennings says he\u2019s been brushing up on a brand new trivia category while traveling with his son, Dylan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The <em>Jeopardy!<\/em> host also joked that his job gives him a \u201cparenting advantage,\u201d since his kids tend to believe him over their mom<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ken caught up with PEOPLE exclusively at the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, Calif., on April 30<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/ken-jennings-finds-alex-trebek-90s-era-afro-pick-backstage-at-jeopardy-11899218\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Ken Jennings;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Ken Jennings&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Ken Jennings<\/a> is brushing up on a new trivia category.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The former <em>Jeopardy!<\/em> champion-turned-host caught up with PEOPLE exclusively at the opening night of the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, Calif., on April 30. During the conversation, he shared that he\u2019s recently been absorbing information on a new topic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI&#8217;m trying to see all the Major League ballparks with my son, [Dylan],\u201d Ken, 51, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAnd so a lot of these are places I&#8217;ve never been, and so now I&#8217;m like, \u2018Hey, I have trivia about Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City. I know about the fountains and the waterfalls now.\u2019 So I&#8217;m accumulating Major League ballpark trivia at an alarming rate,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In addition to Dylan, born in 2002, Ken is also dad to daughter, Caitlin, born in 2006, both of whom he shares with his wife, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/who-is-mindy-jennings-ken-jennings-wife-7963241\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Mindy Jennings;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Mindy Jennings&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Mindy Jennings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>Ken Jennings with his son, Dylan, at a baseball game in 2025<br \/>Credit: Ken Jennings\/Instagram<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The television personality also revealed that hosting an iconic trivia show gives him an extremely specific parenting advantage at home \u2014 something which he told PEOPLE drives his wife crazy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWeirdly, [my job] gives me a bit of a parenting advantage,\u201d Ken explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He added, \u201cLike, if you&#8217;re the host of <em>Jeopardy!<\/em>, your kids will believe you when you try to parent. And it drives my wife bonkers. [She\u2019ll be] like, \u2018I just said that same thing. Why are you believing, Dad?\u2019 And they&#8217;re like, &#8216;Host of <em>Jeopardy!<\/em>&#8216; &#8220;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Ken Jennings hosting 'Jeopardy!'Credit: Disney\/Christopher Willard\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/z3Zhi.trTM3TZv26SLeo0w--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/people_218\/e04d37677f21e407625a5bde6e965228\"\/><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>Ken Jennings hosting &#8216;Jeopardy!&#8217;<br \/>Credit: Disney\/Christopher Willard<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ken also shared what he considers to be one of his strongest <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/jeopardy-winners-who-earned-the-most-11960335\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:trivia categories.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;trivia categories.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">trivia categories.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cOne of my stronger categories [is movies],\u201d he told PEOPLE.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI grew up as a kid reading <em>Leonard Maltin\u2019s Movie Guide<\/em> as if it were \u2026 whatever other kids read, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/new-harry-potter-series-156-percent-increase-book-interest-11962022\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Harry Potter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Harry Potter&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><em>Harry Potter<\/em><\/a> or <em>Hardy Boys<\/em>,\u201d he explained, referring to the highly influential, annual collection of movie reviews first published in 1969.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for<\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:PEOPLE's free daily newsletter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;PEOPLE'&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><strong> PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/strong><\/a><strong> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cMy book was the <em>Leonard Maltin Movie Guide,<\/em> and I just wanted to see everything,\u201d he continued, adding, \u201cLuckily, my parents had a wall of VHS [tapes].\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThey were illegally taping off TCM. Sorry. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m here to support the network,\u201d he jokingly added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/ken-jennings-revealed-the-new-trivia-subject-hes-trying-to-master-exclusive-11966587\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:People;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;People&quot;}\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW Ken Jennings says he\u2019s been brushing up on a brand new trivia category while traveling with his son, Dylan The Jeopardy! host also joked that his job gives him a \u201cparenting advantage,\u201d since his kids tend to believe him over their mom Ken caught up with PEOPLE exclusively at the TCM Classic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2410084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[306826,471329,471331,471330,471332],"class_list":["post-2410083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-ken-jennings","tag-mindy-jennings","tag-parenting-advantage","tag-tcm-classic-film-festival","tag-trivia-categories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ken-Jennings-Revealed-the-New-Trivia-Subject-Hes-Trying-to.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410085,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410083\/revisions\/2410085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2410084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}