Los Angeles ? If the answer is Ken Jennings and his record $920,960 so far in “Jeopardy!” winnings, the question must be how does he do it?

A curious mind, good memory and astute buzzer technique, said Jennings, a Utah software engineer who will make an unprecedented 29th appearance on the syndicated quiz show today.

“A lot of it is just God-given memory that I can’t take any credit for,” he said. “I’ve always been interested in a lot of different fields. It’s not just that I’m a computer engineer and all I care about is computers.”

Playing “Jeopardy!” fulfills a longtime dream, said Jennings, 30, although he concedes the cash prize is dreamy, too.

“It’s enough fun that the money’s just icing on the cake,” he told The Associated Press. “But there seems to be a lot of icing.”

There’s also an unexpected measure of celebrity. A few “Jeopardy!” champs have caught the public eye — such as New York City transit cop Frank Spangenberg with his then-record $100,000-plus winnings in 1990 — but it’s typically the challenging game itself that’s the star.

Jennings’ run that started airing June 2 has changed that, especially as he nears $1 million. Today, he’s set to appear on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and on CBS’ “Late Show with David Letterman.”

Jennings admits feeling nervous and a bit overwhelmed by the attention.

“I remember the first time I was watching Diane Sawyer mention me,” Jennings said. “Suddenly hearing her say, ‘Ken Jennings,’ it was very surreal. It’s a little weird to me I get recognized in the grocery store, and Letterman’s calling.”

Ken Jennings, of Salt Lake City, will make an unprecedented 29th appearance tonight on the syndicated quiz show Jeopardy! He has earned 20,960 in winnings since his first appearance aired June 2.

Jennings is making the most of a change in “Jeopardy!” rules. To mark the start of its 20th season last September, the quiz show lifted its five-game limit for winners and allowed them to keep going until they lose.

On the show, which is taped in advance and crams five shows (a week’s worth) into one day of production, players are given answers in a wide variety of categories and must quickly buzz in to pose the correct question.

Previous record-holder Tom Walsh, 39, of Washington, D.C., managed a seven-day run with $184,900 in winnings on the show in January.

A member of Brigham Young University’s College Bowl team in the 1990s, Jennings writes and edits literature questions for the National Academic Quiz Tournament.

He insists he had modest hopes, knowing full well how tough the “Jeopardy!” competition can be.

“My expectations were maybe to get a few answers to show I wasn’t a total dummy, so even if I was getting shut out on the buzzer I still looked like I knew a thing or two,” he said. “And I would have been happy with that.”

Jennings expects to invest what he’s won for his wife, Mindy, and their 1 1/2-year-old son, Dylan. There will be a splurge or two, probably on a trip to Europe.

The movie buff managed to come up with the wrong answer to that question the first time his wife raised it.

“She asked me what we’re going to do with all the money, and I told her it’s all going to DVDs,” Jennings said. “I don’t think she thought that was too funny.”