"Jeopardy!" 7/8/13

Donna Hesson (Ellicott City, MD)- Public health informationist & soprano choir member
Jonathan Couser (Lee, NH)- A medieval historian who's also a part of an instructional musical group called Hoot & Holler
FIVE-TIME CHAMP: Ben Ingram ($115,632- BTW, he works at a bank & is reportedly a Jesse James descendant)

BB:
"UP" WORDS
COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAMERS' SCHOOLS (two per clue)
LANDS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE
THE ARTS
DOD ABCs
RANDOM HOUSE DEFINES IT AS...

The $600 Land Named After People is where this game's chosen to lead off...& Ben claims the DD from the $800 Random House spot. Of his $3K, he risks 2/3 of it.

(Two words): "Goal achieved at too great a cost."

"What is puric victory?"...it's too early to call it now, but he already now has $5K on his lectern! When they call for a TO, he's upped it to $6,600; Jonathan has $1,400 & Donna's $600 on the negative swing of things.

ATTEMPTED LT: $2,600
UNATTEMPTED LT: $2,200
TOTAL LT: $4,800

Current Scores:

Ben: $11,200/Jonathan: $400/Donna: -$600

(Note: The time's up signal didn't sound after the first TS of the evening, the $600 answer about the College Football HoF.)

DJ! Categories:
LITERARY FLORIDA
TEACH YOUR CHILDREN
POISONOUS PLANTS
ROCK & ROLL CALL
DUKE, DUKE
GOOSE!

One PDD...goes to our champ, his 2nd tonight, on the $1,600 Duke, Duke box. W/ $12,600 to play with, he bets a Benjamin.

The Duke of Gloucester, better known as this, is seen here in a reconstruction done after he was unearthed in 2012.

"Who was Richard III?"...yes, again! In order to try to play catch-up, Richard (currently at $800) goes DDH in the middle of those Poisonous Plants...the $2K one has it, but it's later in Ben's paws while having $19,300, compared to Jonathan's $1,200 & Donna's $2,200. Again, for another $100 bill:

The symptoms from eating this plant, digitalis purpurea, include blurred vision, irregular heartbeat & hallucinations.

"What are purple fingers?" will get the thumbs down this time- the actual plant name was Foxglove. The middle three Goose! clues go unrevealed.

ATTEMPTED LT: $2,400 ($800 & $1,600 R & R Call clues)
UNATTEMPTED LT: $8,400
TOTAL DJ! LT: $10,800

Pre-FJ! Scores:

Ben: $22K (LG)/Jonathan: $2,400/Donna: $1,400

BEN'S CORYAT OF THIS MATCH: $22,200

FJ! TOPIC #211: African-American Firsts.

Tracing her family to William Hood of 18th Century Penn., Karen Batchelor made news as this org.'s first African-American member.

D: "What is the DAR" (this was the correct response for the Final that no one got on 6/12/98, resulting in a TOTAL WIPEOUT that day)($1K) = $2,400
J: "What is the Daughters of the American Revolution" ($600) = $3K
B: SWEEP ($100, AGAIN) = $22,100 (w/ six wins & $137,732, he's 2nd on the current ToC Leaderboard & two wins away from going to the top)

EPISODE RATING: 8