4B = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MUNJAY, MAY 6, 2012
THIS AND THAT
WEATHERFORECAST
'Jeopardy!' sets higher stakes
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The capacity crowd at Radio City Music Hall had a new hero.
It wasn't a rock star or a particularly limber Rockette. Instead, it was a man standing on stage under hot lights, answering trivia questions so arcane they would give most people a headache.
At a pivotal point in the first-ever feopardy! $1 million tournament, the contest makes a bold gamble that instantly impresses the audience with his courage.
The vagueness here is intentional. The person's name, the risk and outcome won't be revealed to preserve the surprise. The two-week Jeopardy tournament that began last Wednesday will conclude with the two-day finals on May 13-14.
During the taping in Manhattan earlier this spring, contestants waded through categories tougher than the typical game: "Four Syllable Words," "Near East Ancient History, "Circus and Carnival Cinema" and "Architects."
The finale is terrific — a tight, taut contest that, like the tournament itself, calls attention to a game that's been successful for so long that it's taken for granted.
The competition was filmed in New York, away from its usual California studio, to help mark the 4.000th episode filmed since Jeopardy! was revived as a television game show in 1984.
That doesn't count the years 1964 to 1975, and briefly in 1978- 79, when Jeopardy! was on the air with Art Fleming as host. The game was invented by Merv Griffin, who also composed the theme music it uses to this day.
Jeopardy' is consistently second only to Wheel of Fortune as the most popular television game show. In many markets, the two games air back-to-back in the valuable TV real estate between the evening news and prime time.
The third-rated game show, Hollywood Squares, has less than half the audience of Jeopardy!, said Marc Berman, a television analyst for Media Week Online.
"Jeopardy!" is as healthy as a ratings horse." Berman said.
"There's no stopping it."
But like most programs in an age of increased competition, the show's audience has shrunk in size, including a 4 percent drop between last year and this season. That — and the desire to draw a younger audience — is behind several tweaks made to leopardy!
It has added a "clue crew," a team of four well-scrubbed young people who travel across the country filming video clues. It has doubled the available prize money, which executive producer Harry Friedman said had made for more rapid swings in the games.
Host Alex Trebek even shaved his mustache, which he said made him look younger.
"We've energized the show to a large extent." Friedman said. "It just seems like part of a natural evolution. It's changing the show without changing the game."
That's pivotal. They don't want to tinker with the basics. *Jeopardy!* will always give the answers and make contestants phrase their responses in the form of a question.
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1 Fishhook feature
& others
9 Biblical land
14 Cookie choice
15 Colorado
tributary
16 Consume with
relish
17 Chilean cash
18 Wildebeests
19 Rib-eye
alternative
20 "Nova" network
22 "__ Pinafore"
23 Kitchen fixtures
24 A couple
26 Superlatively
spurious
29 Victory
30 Spookiest
31 Fool
34 Like a gasp
36 Name on cakes
38 Move deceptively
39 Marcus or
Woody
40 Fire starters
43 German rulers,
once
45 Nevertheless
46 Squealing
48 Make a right!
49 Pullulation
50 Bizarre
51 Bus-driver
Kramden
54 One of the
Gershwins
55 Seasoned sailor
57 Muse of poetry
58 Lairs
60 Shoot wide
63 Moses' brother
64 Actor Estrada
65 Scandinavian
capital
66 Carpentry tool
67 Optimistic
68 Charon's river
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2 __ we there yet?
3 One who
answers
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5 Omelet ingredient
6 Pretentious person
7 Graduates
8 Highland girls
9 Rectifies
10 Established custom
11 School collar
12 Sailor's bed
13 Simians
21 Hands-free communicator
24 Full of turns
25 __ the Poch
27 Do ax work
28 NASA's ISS partner
31 Yarn-spinner
32 Lose one's cool
33 Felt
35 Cool!
37 Capp and Capone
41 Tattered cloth
42 "The Lord of the Rings" character
melet ingredient Solutions to Friday's puzzle
43 Worldwide service club
44 Porch raider
47 Matador
49 Writer Sinclair
51 Harvest
52 Asian sea
53 Zhivago's love
56 Book before
Obadiah
59 Wild blue yonder
61 Shifty
62 Red or White
team
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