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'Jeopardy!' Champ Closes in on $1 Million Mon Jul 12, 8:10 AM By LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer Ken Jennings, of Salt Lake City, Utah, shown here in this undated ...More... 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 Monday night. '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 a bit 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.
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