Shamiram Barooshian
“On June 17, 1929, this airline’s first passenger flight left Dallas,
making stops at Shreveport, Monroe, and Jackson. Thirty seconds, good
luck,” says Jeopardy! host, Alex Trebek. Then the music starts: that
ubiquitous tune signaling impatience, waiting and mounting pressure.
Peter Guekguezian is one of the contestants on the June 19th
broadcast of the popular game show. Guekguezian is a linguist from
Fresno, Calif., and a defending Jeopardy! champion, having won $18,401
on the previous show. This time, he is up against a history instructor
from Tucson, Ariz. and a writer from Brooklyn, N.Y., whose score going
into Final Jeopardy! is almost double.
Guekguezian feels the pressure and writes, “Southwest.”
