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Ken Jennings is getting candid about which Jeopardy <\/em>categories he’s mastered, and which he needs to study more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n “One of my stronger categories [is movies],” he recently told PEOPLE at the TCM Classic Film Festival. “I grew up as a kid reading Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide<\/em>… and I just wanted to see everything.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Jennings also said he’s using the Los Angeles trip to brush up on his “Major League ballpark trivia.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n You wouldn’t expect a former software engineer to be an expert on all things show business. But you should know to expect the unexpected from Ken Jennings<\/a> by now.<\/p>\n The 51-year-old former computer whiz and Jeopardy<\/em><\/a> champ, who eventually took over as host of the long-running trivia game show after Alex Trebek’s death<\/a> in 2020, quizzes panels of contestants every weeknight about subjects ranging from national marine sanctuaries, to military history, to Germanic linguistics.<\/p>\n During his historic 2004 run that locked in his forever champ status, Jennings proved fluent in just about everything. But there’s still one category that fans fans may not give him enough credit for knowing front to back.<\/p>\n “One of my stronger categories [is movies],” he recently told PEOPLE<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jennings revealed this bit insider info at the perfect event in the perfect city. He let his inner film buff out on the red carpet at the 2026 TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood on April 30. The quizmaster was invited there to host a live version of Kennections<\/a>, the puzzle series he contributes to Mental Floss, and to introduce a screening<\/a> of the sci-fi classic The Thing From Another World.<\/em><\/p>\n “I grew up as a kid reading Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide<\/em> as if it were… whatever other kids read, Harry Potter<\/em> or Hardy Boys<\/em>,” he explained, referring to famed film critic and historian’s annual compendium of movie reviews and recommendations. “My book was the Leonard Maltin Movie Guide,<\/em> and I just wanted to see everything.”<\/p>\n Jennings joked, “Luckily, my parents had a wall of VHS [tapes]… They were illegally taping off TCM. Sorry. That’s why I’m here to support the network.”<\/p>\n