"Jeopardy!" 6/28/13

After this game, we'll have four weeks of regular games left this season.

Sonrisa Cooper (Jamaica Plain, MA)- Project assistant
Nishant Menon (Hyattsville, MD)- Economist
CHAMP: Laura Amundson

BB:
THE ENVIRONMENT
ROCK GROUP NAMES
POTPOURRI
AN OGDEN NASH MENAGERIE
HELLO!
GOOD "BI"

When they take a break, Laura's $600 in the hole, Nishant's at $1,800 & Sonrisa has a $600 lead over the man in the middle. Laura has managed to go from negative to positive $600 & has the DD on the bottom of the $800 Ogden Nash Menagerie. Laura's $1K answer:

About this insect Nash wrote "Would you be calm and placid if you were full of formic acid?".

"What is a mosquito?"...incorrect- it was just an ant, so back she goes in negative territory to the tune of 400 bucks. By the time the board's wiped out, she's $1,200 to the good, 1/4 of new leader Nishant's score; Sonrisa's $400 behind him.

SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: $1K (Rock Group Names)
UNATTEMPTED LT: $1,800
TOTAL LT: $2,800

DJ! Lineup:
LAB TEST
______ OF THE ______
PARLEZ-VOUS FRANCAIS?
RIVERS ON THE BORDER
WORLD HISTORY
MOVIE NARRATORS

After the first two World History clues have been selected & read, Nishant goes DDH in the middle of the Movie Narrators...but Laura's got one floating in the $1,600 River on the Border & she stands at $5,600, $6K behind Nishant; Sonrisa has $7,200. The titleholder goes for another $4K here:

The Usumacinta River forms the border between Mexico & this country.

"What is Guatemala?"...she needed it & got it to go to $9,600, then she ties up the game as that category gets wrapped up! Also, she has a DDS & is additionally on the verge of sweeping the Francais category! Of her $15,200, she wagers three G's:

Meaning uninterested, it's the past participle of a French word meaning "to become boring".

She doesn't know it's blase.

DJ! LT (all unattempted): $6,800

Pre-FJ! Banks:

Laura: $15K/Nishant: $14,800/Sonrisa: $7,200

LAURA'S CORYAT SCORE: $16,600

FJ! CATEGORY #205: 1950s Fiction.

John Updike wrote Rabbit, Run partly in reaction to this more carefree noel that was published three yrs. earlier.

S: "What is on the..." ($2,800) = $4,400 (On the Road would've been right)
N: "WHAT IS RABBIT AT REST?" ($14,399) = $401
L: "What is Rabbit Run?" ($11K) = $4K (she leaves w/ $22,395)

EPISODE RATING: 5