The intellectual acumen of the contestants does little to decide whether you walk away with a Camry or a $99 toaster. ![]() The audience’s yells of “Big money!” have no effect on whether the wheel will land on a vacation in Disneyworld or on Bankrupt. It is a neon-lit reminder that much of what happens to us in life has nothing to do with our virtues or our vices. What at first seemed to be mindless entertainment seems to me now something more profound. I rush to change the channel to avoid the Las Vegasesque screams and set of “Wheel of Fortune.” At least, I used to. It is mastered through hard work, study, eagerness and fair play. But even here, strategic skill is awarded-and applauded. Fortunes can be won or lost on the Daily Double or Final Jeopardy. ![]() “Jeopardy!” celebrates intelligence, memory, alertness and self-mastery, with luck occasionally making an entry. Like millions of other Americans, I am perched in front of what my grandmother called “the last vestige of Western civilization”: “Jeopardy!” With the dapper Alex Trebek as our cicerone, I try to outguess the contestants as we negotiate state capitals, French monarchs and the Book of Exodus.
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