Jeopardy! champion Matt Amodio idolizes Ken Jennings, says he studied TMZ to prepare for the show

Vulture

Amodio says his main weakness was "anything that has ever been published in TMZ in the last 10 years," so he studied TMZ to prepare for Jeopardy! "Thankfully, if there’s one thing the internet has information on, it’s celebrities," he said with a laugh in an interview with Vulture. "That’s pretty easy. I did my best to be interested in the minutiae of the celebrity eye. I’m naturally a curious person, which helps, but I still went in very skeptical." Amodio also discussed his idol Ken Jennings. "I was a huge Ken Jennings fan. It was like a sporting event. If there was gear, I would’ve bought gear and a big foam finger to root him on from my living room. I’m a huge Ken fan. Need to say that again. When I grew up, I started to learn more things, but it never really occurred to me to try out for the show."