Well, you can start out by buying this.
And then this.
I must watch way too much Jeopardy Because for a second, I thought, “that podium would be way cool to have”
The urge to get that and then act out celebrity jeopardy sketches with my friends is almost too much to control…
“You’ll rue the day you crossed me, Trebeck!”
You know, for a show like Jeopardy! that prides itself on knowledge, and that penalizes players for getting one letter in a person’s name wrong, you’d think that they would know the difference between a podium and a lectern. A podium is a platform. A lectern is a speaker’s desk. You stand on a podium, behind a lectern.
Maybe Kramer could use it with his Merv Griffith set. 
Anyone notice that Brad Rutter is the high bidder on the lectern?
He’s mentioned in the write-up as starting his million dollar quest from this lectern. I don’t think he’s going to be outbid.
From the OED online:
Podium
First cite 1947.
It’s been more than 50 years now. Can we finally accept that the word is used this way?
I love Jeopardy, but IMHO, Alex Trebeck is a dickwhistle. Could I pretend to be Art Fleming instead?
Sure. Just ignore the fact these are pieces from Trebek’s set and have his signature on them.
I stood at Podium 3, myself.
Exapno Mapcase, podium = raised platform is what I said. A conductor does not conduct from a lectern, he conducts from a podium. The conductor stands on a podium. Nothing in that dictionary definition you quoted says that podium = lectern.
Can I ask you to check out …
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=149900
How much to not be Alex Trebek?
And, if there’s somebody I don’t like, how much to make them become Alex Trebek?
I just think it’s cool that they’re invoking the name of a Doper to advertise the podium.
Apologies. I thought that the cites given there supported the usage in the lectern sense, but when I go back to read them I see that they can all be interpreted in the sense of raised platform.
However, on dictionary.com, I found this:
A stand for holding the notes of a public speaker; a lectern.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Purists still do make the distinction between podium and lectern, but I believe it is one of the word pairs that are rapidly becoming synonymous, as a quick check on Google will show you.
However, this is a hijack and I apologize for that as well.