"Jeopardy!" 7/1/13

Jacob Laux (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA)- Administrative assistant
Ben Ingram (originally from Florence, SC)- IT consultant
NEW CHAMP: Sonrisa Cooper

First Categories This Month:
ARMED FORCES RADIO WITH PAT SAJAK
PAINTERS' MONOGRAMS
VERTICAL LANDMARKS
CELEBRITY PALS
THE "RIGHT"
OF SPRINGS

$200 AFR Clue:

"Hosting 'Dawn Buster' for AVN during the war, I opened with these three words made famous by DJ Adrian Cronauer."

Ben: "What is 'Good Morning, Vietnam'?" ($800)

He shortly finds the DD on the last Vertical Landmark w/ $2,200, $1,400 over Sonrisa; Jacob's $600 on the bad side. Ben goes for it all:

The two towers of this bridge completed in 1937 are 746 ft. high & 4,200 ft. apart; that's about 4/5 of a mile.

"What is the Golden Gate Bridge?"...success for $4,400! Another grand gets added by him before the TO; Sonrisa's up to $1,200 & Jacob's $200 to the good.

$400 AFR Clue:

"In 1940, regularly scheduled military broadcasting began in Central America's PCZ, or this zone."

Sonrisa: "What's the Panama Canal Zone?" ($4K)

$600 (less than a min. left):

"Specialist Kristen King became a star among soldiers w/ her 'Country Convoy' show from inside this zone in Baghdad."

Ben: "What is the Green Zone?" ($8K)

$800:

"In 1943, Armed Forces Network Europe made its first broadcast from this European network's studios."

Jacob: "What is the BBC?" ($2,800)

$1K:

"The first song ever played in 1990 by the Armed Forces Desert Network was this appropriate song by The Clash."

Sonrisa: "What is 'Rock the Casbah?'" ($5,800)

Last C of the Rd. for $1K from Of Springs:

In Greek myth, Cadmus sowed the teeth of this creature & they sprang up as armed men.

Jacob: "What is the Hydra?" ($1,800)

SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: Dragon

SOLE UNATTEMPTED TS: Last Celebrity Pals

DJ! Gameboard:
FAMILY PLANNING
CARIBBEAN ISLANDS, MON
WE WILL ROCK YOU (two song titles per answer)
NEXT IN ORDER
AGELESS QUOTES
SAME LETTERS, DIFFERENT WORDS

Ben's doing some DDH in the middle of Caribbean Islands, Mon after the seventh clue of this rd. w/ $8,800 in the bank...eventually, it works on the $2K Next in Order & he has $15,600, followed by Sonrisa's $8,600 & Jacob's $1,400. He wagers $3K this time.

On The Periodic Table: Boron, carbon, nitrogen...

"What is oxygen?"...& he's currently in LGT w/ $18,600! The other guy finds the last one within Family Planning for $1,600 w/ $3,400; Sonrisa's at the $9K mark. Jacob wisely goes for the lot.

Relatives in this family include a Vice-President, a WV senator & an AR governor.

"Who is Gore?"...NO, they were The Rockefellers. Time runs out on the final three answers regarding Same Letters, Different Words (& Sonrisa was about to choose the $2K one next).

ATTEMPTED LT: $3,200
UNATTEMPTED LT: $3,600
TOTAL DJ! LT: $6,800

Pre-FJ! Scores:

Sonrisa: $8,600/Ben: $20,600 (LG)/Jacob: $2K

MALE CORYATS:
Ben: $18,400
Jacob: $5,400

FJ! SUBJECT #206: Novels.

This 1934 novel was partly written in the Hotel Pera Palace in Istanbul; the room's now a memoir to the author.

J: "WHAT IS ROOM WITH A VIEW?" (that was written back in 1904 by E.M. Forster) = BUST
S: "What is Murder on the Orient Express?" (by Agatha Christie) ($4K) = $12,600 (she leaves w/ $6,400)
B: SAME AS SONRISA ($29) = $20,629

EPISODE RATING: 7