Show #7270 2016-04-01 (taped 2016-02-03) Regular

Ten April Fools' Easter eggs edited into the show.

Contestants

Milton John — a physical therapist from Nanuet, New York

Oliver Bundy — an attorney originally from Anchorage, Alaska

Todd Giese — a hotel front desk manager from New Orleans, Louisiana (whose 3-day cash winnings total $74,402)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Todd $2,000 $5,400 $19,000 $8,001
4-day champion: $82,403
$19,000
22 R, 2 W
Oliver $1,200 $3,200 $800 $1,599
3rd place: $1,000
$2,800
14 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Milton? $1,000 $1,200 $4,000 $2,000
2nd place: $2,000
$6,000
7 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

DAVID MUIR COVERS POLITICS THE "-PHILE" FILE CAST OF THE TV SHOW TRAVEL USA TUBA TOOTHPASTE
$200 [19]
(David Muir, anchor of ABC's World News Tonight, presents.) In 2015, I helped moderate the third Democratic presidential debate & asked the candidates about topics including whether to accept refugees from this specific country
Syria
Todd
$200 [13]
One who admires the customs of England
an Anglophile
Oliver
$200 [3]
In a classic '70s sitcom, newsroommates Gavin MacLeod, Edward Asner & Ted Knight
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Oliver
$200 [8]
To see how this religious sect lives in Lancaster, Penn., you can take a buggy ride in the country & visit one of their farms
the Amish
Oliver
$200 [18]
Wagner tubas were built especially for this 4-opera cycle
Ring
Milton?
$200 [1]
You can whiten your smile with this brand's 3D White toothpaste & Whitestrips
Crest
Todd Oliver
$400 [20]
(David Muir presents.) In my 2015 interview with Hillary Clinton, she said, quote "That was a mistake, I'm sorry" about using one of these while Secretary of State
a private server
Oliver
$400 [14]
One who loves & collects books
a bibliophile
Milton?
$400 [4]
Tim Daly & Tea Leoni, dealing with the federal government
Madam Secretary
Oliver
$400 [9]
Every June & July, "The Miracle Worker" is performed on the grounds of Ivy Green, her home in Tuscumbia
Helen Keller
Oliver
$400 [24]
This character seenhereis both musical & instrumental
Tubby the Tuba
$400 [2]
You might want to use a toothpaste that controls this, hardened plaque
tartar
Oliver Milton?
$600 [21]
(David Muir presents.) Marking an abrupt change after decades, the normalization of relations with this country was the subject of an exclusive interview I conducted with President Obama in December of 2014
Cuba
Todd Oliver
$600 [16]
A devoted, knowledgeable moviegoer
a cinephile
Todd
$600 [5]
Abbi Jacobson & Ilana Glazer, navigating New York
Broad City
Oliver
$800 [11]
You can visit a weather museum at the top of this New Hampshire peak, reachable via a cog railway
Mt. Washington
Todd
$600 [25]
In the 1890s this "March King" redeveloped a style of bass tuba that was eventually named for him
Sousa
Todd
$800 [22]
(David Muir presents.) Political reporting often means hitting the presidential campaign trail, like I did in 2015 when I conducted a one-on-one interview in English & Spanish with this ex-governor
Jeb Bush
Todd
$800 [17]
One who enjoys wines as a connoisseur
an oenophile (a vinophile accepted)
Todd
$800 [6]
Jim Caviezel & Michael Emerson, fighting evil in a high-tech way
Person of Interest
$1,000 [12]
The National Farm Toy Museumin Dyersville is an attraction in this corn-rich state
Iowa
Milton?
$800 [26]
The name of this instrument, which serves as a tenor tuba in military bands, is from the Greek for "good sounding"
the euphonium
$1,000 [23]
(David Muir presents.) I interviewed this first-term senator in April 2014 & she insisted she was not running for president
Elizabeth Warren
Todd
$1,000 [15]
A lover of words; hopefully you're enough of one to get this
a logophile
Todd
$1,000 [7]
Noah Wyle & Moon Bloodgood began dealing with aliens in 2011
Falling Skies
Oliver
DD $2,000 [10]
Louisburg Square in this "elevated" neighborhood of Boston features red brick townhomes & a gated private park
Beacon Hill
Oliver
$1,000 [27]
His album "Birth of the Cool" includes the French horn & tuba, instruments rarely heard in a jazz context
Miles Davis
Oliver

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY LATIN AMERICA ROCKS & MINERALS OSCARS BACKSTAGE AT THE THEATRE ON THE OLD MAP OF EUROPE WORDS OF SUBSTANCE
$400 [1]
Colombian writer Jose Eustasio Rivera's 1924 novel "The Vortex" was set in the rubber plantations of this rain forest
the Amazon
Todd
$400 [21]
The Carrara quarries in Tuscany are prized for this rock used by Michelangelo for his "Pieta"
marble
Todd
$400 [3]
Profession that made Oscar de la Renta famous
fashion
Todd
$400 [7]
A baby is a small one of these, usually about 750 watts
a light (a spotlight)
Oliver
$400 [6]
Two countriesvisible on themap of Europetoday used to be united as this dual monarchy
Austria-Hungary
Oliver
$400 [25]
This 6-letter term is used to describe the climbing of a mountain
ascent
Milton?
$800 [2]
Mexican poet Octavio Paz quit his diplomatic post due to a massacre of protesters 10 days before this 1968 event
the Olympic games in Mexico
$800 [22]
Sial, the upper layer of the Earth's crust, primarily consists of these 2 elements
silicon & aluminum
Milton?
$800 [4]
This "Big O" was only the second NBAer to score more than 25,000 points
Oscar Robertson
Oliver
$800 [8]
A delight to most actors, "S.R.O." stands for this, meaning a packed house
standing room only
Milton?
$800 [17]
On Oct. 7, 1949 the Soviets announced the formation of this country, aka the DDR
East Germany
Todd
$800 [26]
A position on an issue, or a batting position at home plate
stance
Oliver
$1,200 [9]
Gauchesco is literature about the South American equivalent of this American job
cowboy
Todd
$2,000 [24]
A prized variety of this ornamental stone mined in the American Southwest is robin's egg blue
turquoise
Todd
$1,200 [5]
Author Oscar Hijuelos created this group who "Play Songs of Love"
the Mambo Kings
$1,200 [14]
It means to furnish a stage with props, scenery & furniture, but not necessarily clothing
dress
Todd
$1,200 [18]
Caesar could tell you France & parts of other nationsmade up this region that faded from history in the 500s
Gaul
Todd
$1,200 [27]
A Hindu social division with its own privileges & restrictions
caste
Todd
$1,600 [10]
His 1985 work "Love in the Time of Cholera" was partially based on his parents' courtship
(Gabriel García) Márquez
Milton?
DD $3,000 [23]
The inside walls of these hollow rocks are lined with crystals
geodes
Milton?
$1,600 [12]
This member of the double-first-name club has played Llewyn Davis & Poe Dameron
Oscar Isaac
Todd Oliver
$1,600 [15]
A rumble pot is a receptacle in which hot water is mixed with this, solid carbon dioxide, to create fog
dry ice
Todd Oliver
$1,600 [19]
In 1946 this federal state took up a big slab of the Balkans with 6 republics; in 2003, not so much
Yugoslavia
Todd
DD $3,000 [11]
This writer who died fighting for Cuba's independence in 1895 is a national hero of the island
José Martí
Milton?
$2,000 [13]
"A Jazz Odyssey" is the autobiography of this pianist
Oscar Peterson
$2,000 [16]
This 2-word term for sound effects from out of view of the audience is also the name of a 1982 play by Michael Frayn
noises off
Todd
$2,000 [20]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A big player in Medieval & Renaissance times, by 1861, the entity known as these "States" shrank to adoton the map
the Papal States
Todd

Final Jeopardy!

ASIAN CITIES

Of Asia's 10 most populous urban areas, this city on an island is the only one south of the equator

Jakarta (in Indonesia)

Oliver "What is Jakarta?" — wagered $799
Milton? "What is Mumbai?" — wagered $2,000
Todd "What is Sydney?" — wagered $10,999

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