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It all comes full circle! Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings revealed what his best trivia category is, and shared how a childhood hobby helped him excel in it.

Jennings won 74 games in 2004, winning over $2 million, putting him at the top of the Leaderboard of Legends, so it’s safe to say he is skilled in a lot of trivia categories. However, which one does he think he is the best at?

The game show host talked with People at the TCM Classic Film Festival on April 30. There, he told them that he “has a special knack for movies and cinema history.”

“I don’t want to brag. One of my stronger categories [is movies],” he told the outlet. “My book was the Leonard Maltin Movie Guide, and I just wanted to see everything. Luckily, my parents had a wall of VHS [tapes].”

“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,” Jennings continued.

However, the first movie that made Jennings love cinema was Alfred Hitchcock‘s Rear Window, which starred Grace Kelly and Jimmy Stewart. “Rear Window meant so much to me as a kid because I was like, ‘They’re doing this all in one set!’ Everything’s live, there’s all these little storylines going on, but it works since you’re so invested in this guy,” he said.

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“When he feels so helpless because Grace Kelly’s [character is] about to get caught, it’s just like a kind of suspense I’d never seen before.”

Jennings said that he is really fascinated with how movies are made. “I love the behind-the-scenes part of movie making, and I think that’s why old movies really appealed to me. Because it’s very close to the surface with a lot of my favorite directors,” he ended.

However, another category that he is becoming an expert at is baseball and baseball stadium trivia. The Jeopardy! host is starting a new challenge with his son, Dylan. They want to go to every baseball stadium in the country.

“I’m accumulating Major League ballpark trivia at an alarming rate,” Jennings told People. Dylan does not want to follow in his dad’s footsteps and become a game show host, despite being a “trivia whiz.”

“That’s fine by me,” Jennings said. Despite keeping his kids out of the spotlight, Jennings has shared photos of himself and Dylan at sports games over the years.

Maybe Jennings could put his movie and baseball trivia to the test on Pop Culture Jeopardy! or ESPN Jeopardy!. Although being the host disqualifies him from competing at the moment.

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