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Jeopardy - Season 43 - Episode 42: Fri, Feb 27, 2026
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00:01From the Alex Rebeck stage at Sony Pictures Studios, this is Jeopardy!
00:13Introducing today's contestants, a technical trainer from Pittsburgh, Wisconsin, Tim Leung.
00:20An attorney from Richmond, Virginia, Diana Miller.
00:24And our returning champion, a lawyer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, James Hirsch, whose three-day cash winnings totals $67,418.
00:40And now, here is the host of Jeopardy! Ken Jennings.
00:47Thank you, Johnny Gilbert. Welcome back to Jeopardy!
00:49It was another runaway win yesterday for our champion, James Hirsch, who has now earned over $67,000 in his
00:56three days with us.
00:57When I asked him after the game if he had any plans for the money, he had two very wise
01:02responses.
01:02To pay down his mortgage and take the family to Disneyland.
01:05I'm sure Diana and Tim, our challengers, have some Jeopardy! spending dreams of their own.
01:10So good luck, players. Time for the Jeopardy! round.
01:12Which today brings with it these six categories.
01:16First up, I need to know, what's your sign?
01:19Then, let's play with the P in quotation marks.
01:22We have the law of the land, numerical terms in the state capitol.
01:29And we finish off the board with TV Offspring.
01:32James, your choice.
01:33Let's go to TV Offspring for $600.
01:36The post-ellipses part of this sitcom title referred to Kelly and Bud Bundy.
01:41Diana.
01:42What is married with children?
01:43Correct.
01:44A TV Offspring, $800.
01:46On Gilmore Girls, Rory's first name is actually this, just like her mom's and great-grandmother's.
01:52James.
01:53What is Lorelei?
01:53That's right.
01:54The law of the land for $800.
01:56In Denmark, you can only name a baby from a pre-approved list.
02:00Harfer Mondeep is okay, as is this name of Messrs Ulrich and Von Trier.
02:06Diana.
02:06What is Lars?
02:07That's the name.
02:08TV Offspring, $1000.
02:10Oh, heck.
02:11Patricia Heaton played Frankie, mom to Brick, Sue, and Axel Heck, on this sitcom set in Orson,
02:17Indiana.
02:18James.
02:19What is the middle?
02:19Good for $1000.
02:20The law of the land for $1000.
02:22In 2007, China began requiring Tibetan monks to get permission to recognize those who have
02:28undergone this process after death.
02:33You even need permission to be reincarnated now.
02:36Back to you, James.
02:37Let's play for $600.
02:39In 2022, MMA fighter Holly Tillman won a PFC title, short for championship in this slumber
02:46party activity.
02:47Tim.
02:48What is pillow fighting?
02:49The PF is for pillow fight, yes.
02:51Let's play $800.
02:52In Super Mario video games, mushrooms and fire flowers are types of these hyphenated items
02:57that give Mario special abilities.
02:59Tim.
03:00What are power-ups?
03:01They are.
03:01Let's play $1000.
03:03In this game, originally hailing from ancient India, players move four pieces around a track
03:08and to the center of the board.
03:10Tim.
03:10What is Parcheesi?
03:12You get $1000.
03:13What's your sign for $600?
03:15Aries are innovators, like this woman, who got her start studying chimps in the field from
03:20Louis Leakey.
03:21Diana.
03:22Who is Goodall?
03:23The late Jane Goodall, yes.
03:24Numerical terms, $800.
03:26Combat stress is said to lead to this distracted gaze, equaling about 914 meters.
03:32James.
03:34What is thousand yard?
03:36Yes, the thousand yard stare.
03:37We'll take that.
03:38Numerical terms for a thousand.
03:40It's an insult contest in which two participants try to one-up each other with ever-increasing
03:44funny put-downs.
03:46James.
03:47What is the dozens?
03:48Playing the dozens, right.
03:49In the state capitol for $600.
03:52St. John's Church, where Patrick Henry gave his liberty or death speech.
03:55Kim.
03:56What is Boston?
03:57No.
03:58Diana.
03:59What is Richmond, Virginia?
04:00Yes, like you, he was from Virginia.
04:02A TV offspring, $400.
04:04The Pearson triplets were integral to this weepy series that ended in 2022.
04:09Diana.
04:10What is This Is Us?
04:11That's right.
04:11A state capitol, $800.
04:13Answer.
04:13A daily double for you, Diana.
04:18All three of you are playing well.
04:20You're just $600 off the lead.
04:22I'll do $2,000.
04:23All right.
04:24You will have $5,000 in first place if you're right.
04:26In the state capitol, Navy Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.
04:32What is Annapolis?
04:34Annapolis is the right state capitol, yes.
04:36You move into the lead.
04:39Law of the Land, $600.
04:41Barbados bans the wearing of this.
04:43So leave the hunting apparel and MLB Armed Forces Day cap at home.
04:48James.
04:48What is camouflage?
04:49You cannot wear camouflage in Barbados.
04:51We're learning so much today.
04:52We need to pause for a moment, but we'll be back with the rest of the Jeopardy! round.
04:55Don't go anywhere.
04:58Tim Leung of Pittsburgh, Wisconsin is a technical trainer and a running freak, right?
05:03Tell us about your half marathon.
05:05I've done over 50 half marathons, a lot of them in costume.
05:07As a matter of fact, I literally just did one this past weekend.
05:10Wait, you just did a half marathon and then you came directly here to play Jeopardy!
05:14Yeah, I did.
05:15In what kind of costume?
05:16I wore an It's a Small World costume that my wife made me.
05:19Must have been run Disney, right?
05:21Yeah, yeah.
05:22You know, I saw the people running out my hotel window.
05:24I was down there as well.
05:25How did you do?
05:26I finished.
05:27I'm here.
05:28Congratulations.
05:28Diana Miller of Richmond, Virginia, which we now know is Patrick Henry's church or something.
05:34You're an attorney and you first took the Jeopardy! test many years ago.
05:38Where were you?
05:39I was living on Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan.
05:42In Okinawa?
05:43Yes.
05:44I was 15 and Alex and the Jeopardy! crew came, I think part of a USO tour, maybe actually
05:49looking for contestants, not me.
05:51I took a written test and I did not do well.
05:53But it was fun.
05:54It was fun.
05:55You got to meet Alex.
05:55I actually have some kind of a flight jacket that he was given by the USO that I maybe
06:00I'll wear next time we get to do a USO tour.
06:03Bring back some memories for you.
06:05James Hirsch from Toronto, Ontario is a lawyer and a hardworking one, but you mentioned your
06:09kids, you want to take them to Disney.
06:11What do you do in your downtime to relax with the kids?
06:13Well, it's been an incredibly snowy winter in Toronto, so we've been doing a lot of sledding
06:17and playing in the snow, skating and stuff like that.
06:21Been dragging a six-month-old in a bassinet on a sled.
06:24That's the only way of being able to get around, pushing a stroller through a foot of snow.
06:27Is that like a Canadian core memory?
06:29You're a six-month-old being dragged through the snow?
06:31I hope she embodies some of it or embraces some of it when she's older.
06:34It is your selection, James.
06:36Pick a category and a dollar amount.
06:38What's your sign for a thousand?
06:40Libras seek justice, like this South African cleric who won a Nobel Prize for fighting apartheid.
06:46James.
06:47Who's Desmond Tutu?
06:48Good for a thousand.
06:49What's your sign for 800?
06:50Passion rules Scorpio, as with this Spanish painter who had two wives and many mistresses
06:55like Dora Mar and Marie-Therese Valter.
06:58James.
06:59Who's Picasso?
07:00Correct.
07:01Numerical terms for 600.
07:02This style of bed has tall columns at each corner to support curtains or a canopy.
07:08James.
07:09What is a princess?
07:10No.
07:11Tim.
07:11What is a four-corner bed?
07:13No.
07:14Diana?
07:15Not going to try it.
07:16Tim, you were closer, but the numerical term here, four-poster.
07:20Back to you, James.
07:21In the state capitol for a thousand.
07:23The Alfred E. Smith State Office Building, the second tallest in the city.
07:27Tim.
07:27What is Albany?
07:28It is.
07:29Well done.
07:30Let's play 200.
07:31Ten ball, bank, and one pocket are all forms of this game.
07:36James.
07:36What is pool?
07:37Right.
07:38Let's play for 400.
07:39Now an essential playtime moldable for kids, its original purpose was to remove soot from wallpaper.
07:46James.
07:46What is Play-Doh?
07:47Right again.
07:48TV Offspring for 200.
07:50Back in the day, full house was occupied by these twins who shared the role of Michelle Tanner.
07:55Tim.
07:56We're Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson.
07:57Yes.
07:58State capitol for 200.
08:00Coors Field in the Lodo, lower downtown.
08:03James.
08:04What is Colorado?
08:06What is Denver, Colorado?
08:07Tim.
08:07What is Denver?
08:08Yeah, we needed the state capitol.
08:10State capitol for 400.
08:12David Winton Bell Art Gallery at Brown University.
08:15Diana.
08:16What is Providence?
08:17Brown is in Providence.
08:18Law of the land, 400.
08:20In August 2025, a man was arrested in Paris after he lit a cigarette from the eternal flame
08:25at this memorial to France's war dead.
08:28Tim.
08:28What is the tomb of the unknown soldier?
08:30Correct.
08:31Numerical terms for 200.
08:33Venezuela's Yulima Rojas holds the women's world record in this athletic event with a distance
08:38of 51.64 feet in 2022.
08:42James.
08:42What is the triple jump?
08:43It is.
08:44Let's finish numerical terms for 400.
08:46Designed to help ease people back into society, it's a temporary residence for ex-prisoners or
08:52rehab patrons.
08:53Diana.
08:53What is a halfway house?
08:54That's right.
08:55Okay, law of the land, 200.
08:57The 1516 German Reinheitsgebot, or purity law, limited the ingredients in this to barley,
09:03hops, and water.
09:04Tim.
09:05What is beer?
09:05Yes.
09:06What's your sign?
09:07200.
09:08Aquarians are eccentric and march to the beat of their own harpsichord, like this musical
09:12genius, born January 27th, 1756 in Austria.
09:16Tim.
09:17Who is Bach?
09:18No.
09:19James.
09:19Who is Mozart?
09:20That's the right genius.
09:21One more clue in what's your sign.
09:23This Russian empress was pure Taurus, whether you call her 1729 birthday April 21st or May
09:292nd, new style.
09:31Diana.
09:32Who is Catherine the Great?
09:32It is Catherine the Great.
09:33You are now tied for the lead with James.
09:35A great round for all three of you.
09:37Let's hope that continues in double jeopardy, which gets underway right after this.
09:42James has won a couple of runaways, but Diana is tied to the lead with him as we enter double
09:47jeopardy.
09:48The categories in this round will be, first, Psych 101, then some Quick Hits.
09:55After that, I'm hooked on mnemonics.
09:57We have American Art and Artists, Historic Trials, and finally, ooh, Dirty Words.
10:04Tim.
10:05Hooked on mnemonics for $1,200, please.
10:07For treating sprains and other soft tissue injuries, Dr. Mom prescribes the mnemonic Rice,
10:12short for rest, ice, compression, and this.
10:15Diana.
10:16What is elevation?
10:17That's it.
10:17Dirty Words for $1,200.
10:19Answer.
10:20A daily double just for you, Diana.
10:25That last clue pulled you into first place.
10:27What do you want to risk on Dirty Words?
10:29I'll do $2,600.
10:31All right.
10:31You'll have an even $10,000 if you're right.
10:34Here's your clue in Dirty Words.
10:36This word once meant a filthy hotel, but can also refer to a person, or, more recently,
10:41to an Emmy-winning series.
10:49Diana?
10:51I don't know.
10:52Oh, that's a shame.
10:53Good show.
10:54Fleabag.
10:55Both the motel and the TV show.
10:57So you drop down into second place.
10:59Select again.
11:00All right.
11:00Quick Hits for $1,200?
11:02I Stay Modest about it, rapped Kendrick Lamar in this chart-topping 2017 hit that clocked
11:07in at an unassuming $2,57.
11:09Diana?
11:10What is humble?
11:11Yes.
11:11Quick Hits, $1,600?
11:13His number one song, Hit the Road Jack, does just that after two minutes even.
11:18Diana?
11:18Who's Ray Charles?
11:19Right.
11:20Quick Hits, $2,000?
11:22Aretha Franklin's Respect ran just under two minutes 30.
11:25The original hit by this soul legend was even shorter, barely over two minutes.
11:29James?
11:30Who's Otis Redding?
11:31That's right.
11:32Retaking the lead.
11:32Let's go to Historic for $1,600.
11:35Massachusetts Governor Alvin Fuller declined to halt the 1927 execution of this pair despite
11:41widespread doubts about their trial.
11:43Diana?
11:44Who's Sacco and Vanzetti?
11:46Sacco and Vanzetti is right.
11:47Historic trial is $1,200.
11:49In 1927, the Supreme Court of this state reversed a famous verdict from two years earlier, ruling
11:55that the $100 fine was unlawful.
12:00That was the Scopes trial, so the state was Tennessee.
12:03Back to you, Diana.
12:04Historic trials, 2000.
12:06In 2018, the Supreme Court said its 1944 decision against this interned Japanese American was
12:12gravely wrong.
12:14Diana?
12:15Who's Korematsu?
12:16Korematsu v. United States.
12:17Yes.
12:17Psych 101-1200.
12:20Conveying anger or annoyance indirectly rather than directly is what's going on with this
12:25type of behavior with a contradictory name.
12:27James?
12:28What is passive aggression?
12:29Yes.
12:30Hooked on mnemonics for $2,000.
12:32The word fanboys can help us remember the seven most common coordinating conjunctions.
12:37For, and, nor, but, and these three others.
12:41Tim?
12:41What are or, yet, and so?
12:45Ah, you got it.
12:46Well done.
12:46Hooked on mnemonics for $1,600.
12:48In music notation, good boys deserve fudge always can help musicians remember the notes on
12:54the lines of this clef.
12:55Tim?
12:58What is the bass clef?
12:58It is.
13:00Dirty words for $16.
13:02When you consider that this word can literally mean maggot infested, the fact that it can
13:06also mean dirty isn't quite so bad.
13:11Literally full of grubs or grubby.
13:14Back to you, Tim.
13:15Dirty words for $2,000?
13:16From the Latin for dirty, this adjective denotes an extreme state of filth with undertones of
13:22poverty and or neglect.
13:23Diana?
13:24What is derelict?
13:26No.
13:27James or Tim?
13:29What is squalid?
13:31Tim, back to you.
13:32Hooked on mnemonics for $800.
13:34To remember which of these two types of formations is which, spelunkers need only recall that C is
13:39for ceiling and G is for ground.
13:41James?
13:42What are stalagmites and stalagmites?
13:45Stalagmites and stalactites?
13:47Yes, you got there.
13:48Stalactites and stalagmites.
13:50American art and artists for $1,600.
13:53Archibald Willard's humorous sketch of two drummers and a fifer evolved into this patriotic painting.
13:58James?
14:02What is Washington crossing the Delaware?
14:04No.
14:05Diana or Tim?
14:07It's called the spirit of 76.
14:09Back to you, James.
14:10American art and artist for $1,200.
14:12Best known for his painting of a dour farm duo, he also did Daughters of Revolution, seen
14:17here.
14:17Tim?
14:18Who is Wood?
14:18Grant Wood, right.
14:20Psych 101 for $1,600.
14:22This Swiss man brought the terms introvert and extrovert into psychology.
14:26James?
14:28Who is young?
14:29Carl Jung is right.
14:30Psych 101 for $2,000.
14:32To heal the trauma experienced as a youngster, some suggest reparenting this, a phrase popularized
14:38by John Bradshaw in the 90s.
14:40James?
14:41What is an inner child?
14:42That's right, for $2,000.
14:43American art and artist for $2,000.
14:45Answer.
14:45The final daily double of the game goes to you, James.
14:50You've just pulled ahead of Diana again.
14:53$3,000 lead.
14:55Let's wager $3,000.
14:56All right.
14:57You'll have $15,200 if you're correct.
15:00Here's your clue in American art and artists.
15:02This Brooklyn-born artist with an all-too-short career first attracted attention for his graffiti
15:08done under the name Samo.
15:10Who is Basquiat?
15:11Basquiat is correct, yes.
15:12You add $3,000.
15:14Where to now?
15:16Let's stay with American art and artist for $800.
15:19Busts of Hiawatha and Minnehaha by African-American and Native American sculptor Edmonia Lewis
15:25were inspired by a poem by him.
15:27Tim?
15:28Who is Longfellow?
15:29That's right.
15:30Hooked on the Monarch for $400.
15:31This fictitious name, middle initial included, is used to remember the sequence of colors
15:36in the visible light spectrum.
15:38James?
15:39What is Roy G. Biv?
15:40That's it.
15:41American art and artist for $400.
15:42In 2022, his shot, Sage Blue Maryland, sold for $195 million, the most expensive American
15:50artwork to sell at auction.
15:51Diana?
15:52Who's Warhol?
15:53Correct.
15:54A dirty word's $800.
15:55This past tense word contains a synonym for dirt or earth.
15:59A foe of Churchill once said he'd be thrown away like this type of glove.
16:06Like a soiled glove.
16:07Diana?
16:08A historic trial's $800.
16:10Chief Justice John Marshall issued a subpoena to President Jefferson during the 1807 trial
16:15of this man.
16:17Tim?
16:17Who is Burr?
16:18Aaron Burr is right.
16:19Dirty words for $400?
16:21Drop the H from a word for a small boat to get this adjective, meaning dull or gloomy looking
16:26on account of grime.
16:28Diana?
16:28What is dingy?
16:29From dingy.
16:30Right.
16:30A historic trial's $400.
16:32This writer began his testimony in his 1895 case against the Marquess of Queensbury by
16:37lying about his age.
16:39Bad start.
16:40James?
16:41Who's Wild?
16:41You got it.
16:42Quick hits for $800.
16:44All the small things include the 167 seconds of their 1999 hit.
16:49Diana?
16:50Who's Blink-182?
16:51You're right.
16:51Quick hits $400.
16:53It took less than two minutes for Fell in Love with a Girl to bring this colorful duo
16:57to alt-rock stardom.
16:58James?
16:59Who are the White Stripes?
17:00That's them.
17:01Psych 101 for $800.
17:03Obsessive-compulsive-related disorders include trichotillomania, which means pulling this.
17:08Diana?
17:09What is hair?
17:10Hair is right.
17:11One more clue in Psych 101.
17:13Fear, dread, a pounding heart, and sweating are symptoms of this type of disorder.
17:18Types of it include social and separation.
17:20Tim?
17:21What is anxiety?
17:22That is correct.
17:23Not a runaway for James today.
17:25Diana and Tim played well.
17:26Here's the final Jeopardy category to decide things.
17:29Companies.
17:30We'll be back with the clue right after this brief.
17:34We finish the week with this final Jeopardy category, companies, and this clue.
17:40Historian Lewis Hyman wrote, this company's sales method undid the power of the consumerism
17:46of Jim Crow.
17:4730 seconds starting now, players.
17:49Good luck.
17:51Good luck.
18:04$800,000, Polish.
18:04Good luck.
18:05Good luck.
18:17The truth.
18:20Tim Leung, on the end, finished with $9,800 and looked at this for a long time.
18:25He wrote down, ooh, question mark, question mark, question mark.
18:30Couldn't come up with it.
18:30He wagered, well, nothing at all.
18:33So he still has $9,800.
18:35Let's see if that works out.
18:36Diana Miller was in second place with $11,600.
18:39Her response was, what is Sears and Roebuck?
18:43And that is correct.
18:44With the Sears catalog, black shoppers didn't have to worry about racist shopkeepers.
18:49They could shop from home.
18:50What did you wager, Diana?
18:52You'll add $4,799.
18:54You are now just $1 behind James Hirsch in the lead.
18:58Did James know it was Sears?
19:00He put Coca-Cola.
19:02Did he wager more than $1?
19:04$68.18 drops him into third with $9,582, and it makes Diana Miller today's Jeopardy!
19:09champion.
19:11Wow, well done.
19:15Thanks for being with us this week on the Alex for Backstage.
19:17We'll see you back here on Monday.
19:19Thank you, everyone.
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