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Jeopardy - Season 43 - Episode 39: Trey Hart, James Hirsh, Christa Fidel
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00:01From the Alex Rebeck stage at Sony Pictures Studios, this is Jeopardy!
00:12Please welcome today's contestants.
00:15A musician from Wellington, Florida, Krista Fidel.
00:20A lawyer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, James Persh.
00:25And our returning champion, a grant writer from Petaluma, California, Trey Hart, whose two-day cash winnings total $34,300.
00:39And now, here he is, the host of Jeopardy! Ken Jennings.
00:45Thank you, Johnny Gilbert. Welcome to Jeopardy!
00:48In yesterday's game, reigning champ Trey Hart came from behind in final Jeopardy! to take his second win.
00:54Today, Trey is back, going for the Trey, win number three, joined by James and Krista.
00:58Good luck, everyone. Time for the Jeopardy! round first, which brings with it today these categories.
01:05We're going to start with ends in Ella.
01:08Then we have some abbreviated magazines, Americans in History.
01:13An important question, who wants gum?
01:16Then it's kitty lit.
01:18And finally...
01:20I'm Zach Braff.
01:21Your first choice in fictional medicine would have to be my character, Dr. John Dorian.
01:25But if he's booked up, I've got clues about some other TV and movie doctors.
01:29Trey, where to first?
01:30Let's try kitty lit 800.
01:32Female characters with rhyming names include Fancy Nancy and this laughable gal and housekeeper,
01:38in books by Peggy and Herman Parrish.
01:41Trey.
01:42Who's Amelia Bedelia?
01:43Right.
01:43Kitty lit 600.
01:45It begins, in the great green room, there was a telephone and a red balloon.
01:50James.
01:51What is Goodnight Moon?
01:52That is the book.
01:53Can I have Who Wants Gum for 800, please?
01:55Latin for gum and inflammation gives us the name of this painful condition.
02:00James.
02:01What is gingivitis?
02:02That's right.
02:02Who Wants Gum for 600?
02:04Answer.
02:04It's a daily double, James.
02:09And you have $1,400 to play with here.
02:11How do you feel about gum?
02:13Let's make it a true daily double, Ken.
02:14All right.
02:14Going for 2,800.
02:16The man loves gum.
02:16What can I say?
02:18Here's your clue.
02:20In 1926, the former Wiegman Park was named this in honor of a chewing gum magnate.
02:26What is Wrigley Field?
02:27That is correct.
02:28Yes.
02:28Wrigley Field takes you to 2,800.
02:33Let's go to Kitty Lit for 1,000.
02:35A mother and daughter are forced to flee their comfortable life in Mexico for a migrant worker
02:40camp in California in This Girl Rising.
02:43Krista.
02:44Who is Esperanza?
02:45Well done for 1,000.
02:47Enzanela for 600.
02:49Arroz Valenciana has been called a Filipino version of this dish.
02:53Krista.
02:54What is paella?
02:55Right again.
02:56Abbreviated magazines for 800.
02:59Famous for its index, it celebrated its 175th anniversary in 2025.
03:05H.
03:06Krista.
03:07What is Harper's?
03:08The Harper's Index, yes.
03:09Abbreviated magazines for 600.
03:12It showcases international design, innovative homes, and interiors.
03:16AD.
03:17Trey.
03:18What is Architectural Digest?
03:20That is the magazine.
03:21Abbreviated magazines, 400.
03:23A recent issue included top-rated tires, CR.
03:28Krista.
03:28What is Consumer Reports?
03:30Yes.
03:31Um, Kitty Lit for 400.
03:34Asked why he writes creepy books, this Goosebumps author says, I just like to scare people.
03:39Trey.
03:39Who is R.L.
03:40Stein.
03:40That's right.
03:41Uh, Kitty Lit, 200.
03:42In 2025, the Plaza Hotel threw a 70th anniversary bash, celebrating this precocious young resident.
03:50Trey.
03:51Who is Eloise?
03:51You got it.
03:52Uh, Fake Doctor 600.
03:54Here's Zach Braff.
03:56One of the men in black looked like Alex Trebek.
03:59It seems like on the X-Files, this lead character, an M.D. from Stanford, was in constant, what's the
04:06word I'm looking for?
04:08Jeopardy.
04:09James.
04:10Who is Scully?
04:11Correct.
04:12Uh, Fake Doctor's Real Actress for 800.
04:14Back to Zach.
04:16Projecting as Dr. Lahiri, this actress psyched herself up by giving herself the warrior name of Beyonce Pad Thai.
04:23Trey.
04:24Who is Mindy Kaling?
04:25That's her.
04:25Uh, Fake Doctor's 1000.
04:27Zach.
04:29Leslie Nielsen's Dr. Rummack says a woman has to get to a hospital, which is a big building with patients,
04:34but that's not important right now, in this classic 1980 film.
04:38Trey.
04:39What is Airplane?
04:40Yeah, great gag from Airplane.
04:41Uh, Fake Doctor's 400.
04:43Zach.
04:44On Scrubs, my best pal is my chocolate bear Turk.
04:47On Grey's Anatomy, Dr. Christina Yang, played by this Emmy winner, says Meredith is her person and would even help
04:53with murdered corpse removal.
04:55We're on very different shows.
04:58James.
04:58Who's O?
04:59Sandra O is right.
05:00Uh, let's finish the category for 200.
05:02One more time.
05:03Zach Braff.
05:04All Doctors are superheroes to me, but in 2016, Benedict Cumberbatch went next level, taking this character from neurosurgeon to
05:12a guy who definitely didn't need the subway to get around New York.
05:15Trey.
05:16Who's Doctor Strange?
05:17Yes, pulling into the lead.
05:19Our thanks to Zach for that category.
05:21You can see his return as Dr. Dorian.
05:22When Scrubs returns tomorrow on ABC.
05:25And we'll return even sooner than that.
05:26More Jeopardy coming up after the break.
05:38Krista Fidel is from Wellington, Florida, where she's a musician.
05:41Tell me about your ensemble, Krista.
05:43Oh, well, I do not play with an ensemble.
05:45I do work with an organization that brings musicians to assisted living and memory care facilities.
05:55Well, that's great.
05:55And what do you play?
05:56So I play acoustic guitar and sing, and I try to connect with the residents.
06:01For me, music is all about communication.
06:03And I would say if you would ask what those residents really appreciate, you can't go wrong with the Beatles.
06:08Ah, all generations appreciate the Beatles.
06:11That's a good tip.
06:12James Hirsch is a lawyer here from Toronto, Canada.
06:14You're a Jeopardy! champion from so far back in the day it was at summer camp, right?
06:18That's right.
06:19The summer camp I went to, Camp Walden in Ontario.
06:21I did a staff Jeopardy! tournament every year, and I was lucky enough to be the four-time champion.
06:26Wow, so we got a two-time champion and a four-time champion, although summer camp Jeopardy! may be a
06:30little, I don't know, less prestigious?
06:32I believe I won $250 for each time I went, so it wasn't nothing, and as a 17-year-old,
06:36I went a long way.
06:36That's a lot of money.
06:37Trey Hart from Petaluma, California.
06:39We've announced he was a grant writer before.
06:41Tell us where you work.
06:42I work for a place called the Redwood Empire Food Bank.
06:44We're a Feeding America food bank.
06:46We're based in Santa Rosa, but we cover Sonoma, Lake Mendocino, Humboldt, and Del Norte counties, all the way up
06:52from Sonoma to the Oregon border.
06:53Oh, wow.
06:54Feeding a lot of people.
06:55Yeah, absolutely.
06:55Great work, Trey, congratulations.
06:57And you have control of the board.
06:59What's the next category?
07:00How much?
07:00Let's try Enzenella 800.
07:03Great timing.
07:04The first jar of this hazelnut cocoa cream spread left the factory in Italy on Monday, April 20th, 1964.
07:11Trey, what is Nutella?
07:12Yes.
07:13Enzenella 1000.
07:16Sesamoid bones function as pulleys, and this is the largest one in the human body.
07:20James.
07:21What is the patella?
07:22In the knee, you got it.
07:23Abbreviated magazine is for 1,000.
07:25It has used the slogan cook, share, celebrate.
07:29T-O-H.
07:33That mag is called Taste of Home.
07:36Abbreviated magazine for 200, please.
07:38It's the ultimate in women's fashion, V.
07:41Trey?
07:41What is Vogue?
07:42That's it.
07:43Enzenella 400.
07:45To kill this bacteria and not get sick from it, cook chicken to an internal temperature of at least 165
07:50degrees.
07:51Trey?
07:52What is salmonella?
07:53Right.
07:54Ella 200.
07:55Used as an adjectival intensifier, this five-letter word is thought to have originated in the Bay Area in the
08:0180s.
08:01Trey from the Bay Area.
08:03What is hella?
08:03Do you say hella?
08:04I do now.
08:05All right.
08:07We'll do gum, 1,000.
08:09A cloud of luminous gas, 1,000 light years in diameter, the gum this may be the remnants of a
08:15supernova.
08:16Krista?
08:16What is the nebula?
08:17The gum nebula, yes.
08:19Americans in history, 600.
08:21Serving three decades on the tribal council, Annie Dodge Juanica was called the legendary mother of this Native American nation.
08:29Trey?
08:29What is the Hopi?
08:30No.
08:31James or Krista?
08:34Trey, you were close geographically, but those are the Navajo.
08:37Back to you, Krista.
08:38Americans in history, 400.
08:40Char Adams' book, Black Owned, tells of David Ruggles, a black bookstore owner of the 1830s, whose home was a
08:46stop on this route.
08:48James?
08:49What is the Underground Railroad?
08:50Yes.
08:51Let's stick with Americans in history for 800.
08:53In 1893, Howard Hyde Russell founded a force to reckon with for the next 40 years.
08:58Not the anti-bar or tavern, but the anti-this league.
09:05It was called the Anti-Saloon League.
09:07James?
09:08Americans in history for 1,000.
09:10She wrote Battle Hymn of the Republic after visiting Union troops camped near Washington, D.C.
09:15Krista?
09:16Who is Julia Ward Howe?
09:17Very good.
09:18Who wants gum, 400.
09:20A huge shopping center called Gum, or Glavli Universalni Magazine, sits on the northeast side of this square.
09:28Trey?
09:28What is the Red Square?
09:29In Moscow, yes.
09:30Gum 200?
09:32Many soccer stars from this country go by a single name, like Gum, a.k.a. Wellington Pereira-Rodriguez.
09:39James?
09:39What is Brazil?
09:40He is Brazilian.
09:41And one more clue in Americans in history.
09:44The great-grandfather of this trader was an early governor of the Rhode Island colony.
09:48James?
09:49Who is Arnold?
09:50That is correct.
09:51What a game we have.
09:52James just pulled into the lead by 200 bucks.
09:54Krista, you'll select first when we come back.
09:56Double Jeopardy!
09:56On deck.
09:57Stay with us.
10:04We have three bright players all playing well.
10:06That's what we like to see.
10:08Double Jeopardy!
10:08Time now.
10:09Here are your categories.
10:11We begin with World Cities.
10:13From there, we go to Broadway Theatres.
10:16Then all the way to Space.
10:18We have Band Camp.
10:21I'm All Lost.
10:22And finally, No Time to Say the Whole Word.
10:26Krista, what do you fancy?
10:28Space for 1,200.
10:30Named for a 19th century astronomer, the points of sunlight that appear during a total eclipse are called Bailey's Vs.
10:37Krista?
10:38What are Bailey's beads?
10:39Well done.
10:40Space for 1,600.
10:41An M in front of the number of a galaxy refers to this Frenchman who catalogued a bunch of them
10:47in the 18th century.
10:51Who is Messier?
10:52Messier numbers.
10:53Krista?
10:54Space for 800.
10:56The Schwarzschild radius of one of these is the distance from its center to its event horizon.
11:01Trey?
11:01What is a black hole?
11:02Yes.
11:03Broadway Theatres, 800.
11:05In 1983, during the run of Brighton Beach Memoirs, the former Alvin Theatre was renamed for this playwright.
11:11Krista?
11:12Who is Neil Simon?
11:13Yeah, he wrote that.
11:14Space for 2,000.
11:16Named for a Dutch astronomer, this cloud beyond Neptune is likely the source of most long-period comets.
11:22James?
11:23Who is Kepler?
11:24No.
11:25Krista?
11:25What is the Oort cloud?
11:27Good for 2,000.
11:28No time to say the whole word for 400, please.
11:31I have to analyze a painting by Petrus Christus for my art history paper on the northern Rhen.
11:37Krista?
11:37What is Renaissance?
11:38Yes.
11:39No time to say the whole word for 800.
11:42Philatelists evaluate stamps partly by the perfs around the edges.
11:46James?
11:47What are perforations?
11:48That's correct.
11:49No time to say the whole word for 1,600.
11:51In 2025, everyone in baseball was talking about Brewer's rookie pitcher Jacob Mizorowski
11:56and his overwhelming velo.
11:58Trey?
11:59What is velocity?
12:00Yeah.
12:00Whole word, 1,200?
12:02In the first three minutes of Ballard on Prime Video, the title cop knows she'll need a psych eval
12:07after subduing a suspect.
12:09Trey?
12:10What is a psych evaluation?
12:12Or just evaluation?
12:13What is an evaluation?
12:15Yeah, we'll take that.
12:16You only expand on one of the words.
12:17A psychiatric or psychological evaluation.
12:192,000, please?
12:20The 1922 poem, The Wasteland, includes a line about a woman's husband who's been demobbed.
12:26Krista?
12:27Oh, what is demobilized?
12:28From the military, yes.
12:30I'm all lost for 400.
12:32The 10 lost tribes of this nation are so-called because they disappeared from history following
12:36an Assyrian invasion.
12:38James?
12:38What is Israel?
12:39Yes.
12:40I'm all lost for 800.
12:42Gustav Klimt's three paintings for the university of this city were rejected as perverted,
12:46then lost during World War II.
12:48Trey?
12:49What is Vienna?
12:50You got it.
12:50I'm all lost, 1,200.
12:52Most of the silent films by this director are lost, but in 2024, a real searcher in Chile
12:58found a 1918 Western.
13:00Trey?
13:00Who's John Ford?
13:01That's the director.
13:02Lost 1,600?
13:03Answer.
13:05A daily double for you, Trey.
13:09And you find it while playing catch-up.
13:11You're just $200 off the lead.
13:12I'll bet 4,000.
13:13That will put you on top with 15,000 if you're right.
13:16Here's your clue in I'm all lost.
13:19The location of the 1909-jeweled Alexander III commemorative imperial one of these has
13:25yet to be cracked.
13:26Uh, what is a Fabergé egg?
13:28You are correct.
13:28And now you're in the lead with 15,000.
13:30Uh, I'll finish off lost with 2,000.
13:34Agustin Lizarraga rediscovered this lost city nine years before Hiram Bingham made a visit.
13:43What is Machu Picchu?
13:45Trey?
13:45Uh, Broadway theaters, 1,200.
13:47From 1982 to 2,000, the Jellicle Ball was the main event at the Winter Garden, where this
13:52show ran 7,485 performances.
13:56Krista?
13:57What is Cats?
13:57That is the show.
13:58Broadway theaters for 1,600.
14:00In the 1920s, a theater was named for this member of the Barrymore family, on condition
14:05she star in its first production.
14:07James?
14:08Who is Ethel?
14:09That's right.
14:10Broadway theaters for 2,000.
14:12We're sorry this caricaturist never got to draw the cast of Moulin Rouge the musical at
14:16the theater named for him.
14:18Trey?
14:18Who is Al Hirschfeld?
14:19Yes, for 2,000.
14:21Broadway theaters, 400.
14:22If you're keeping up with the Jones, Real Women Have Curves the musical played in 2025 at
14:28the venue named for this late actor.
14:30Trey?
14:30Who is James Earl Jones?
14:31Yes.
14:32World Cities, 800.
14:34Brush up on your French for a visit here, where you can walk along the St. Lawrence before
14:38catching the Habs at the Bell Center.
14:40James?
14:41What is Montreal?
14:41Yeah, you got the Canadian stuff.
14:43Good job.
14:43World Cities for 1,600.
14:45Semiconductors used in AI pour out of a science park in Shinchu on this island.
14:50James?
14:52What is Taiwan?
14:53That is the island.
14:54World Cities for 1,200.
14:55Answer.
14:56You skipped it, but you went back for it.
14:58A daily double for you, James.
15:01And a chance to make up ground.
15:048,000.
15:05All right.
15:06For 8,000 more, you won't be in first, but you'll be knocking on the door.
15:09Here is your clue in World Cities.
15:12Like his famous grandfather, portrait artist Lucian Freud died at home in this city.
15:18What is London?
15:19Yes.
15:20Sigmund and Lucian both died in London.
15:24$600 game at the moment.
15:25James, select.
15:26World Cities for 2,000.
15:28In Richard Nixon's Six Crises, number four is when his car is attacked in this South American
15:32city, where 61 years later, the U.S. closed its embassy.
15:37James?
15:39What is Caracas?
15:40Correct for the lead.
15:41World Cities for 400.
15:43Tamaki Makoru is an increasingly common alternate name for Auckland in this country.
15:48Krista?
15:48What is New Zealand?
15:49Yes.
15:50Band camp for 400.
15:52An out-of-control guano situation led to a 2008 ban on feeding pigeons in this city's
15:57St. Mark's Square.
15:59Tre?
15:59What is Venice?
16:00Yes.
16:01Band camp 800.
16:02Food containing sheep's lung is a no-no in the U.S., so you'll have to go abroad to enjoy
16:07this traditional Scottish delicacy.
16:09Krista?
16:10What is Haggis?
16:11Right.
16:12Band camp for 1,200?
16:14This chatty must-have toy was banned from NSA HQ in 1999 for fear it would repeat things
16:20it overheard.
16:21James?
16:22What is a Furby?
16:22Ban on the Furby, yeah.
16:24Band camp for 1,600.
16:25For being associated with a revolution in Tunisia, this plant with fragrant white flowers was
16:30banned in some parts of China in 2011.
16:33What is a Magnolia?
16:38Trey?
16:39What is a Magnolia?
17:02You are correct.
17:03You are correct.
17:03Look at these scores.
17:04A great game.
17:04James is in the lead as we head into Final Jeopardy.
17:07Let's see what category you are wagering on, players.
17:10Short stories.
17:11Think about that.
17:12We'll take a short break, and then we'll be back with a short clue.
17:23Let's see how today's contestants do with this topic, short stories.
17:27Here's the Final Jeopardy clue.
17:30Encountering one that snarls at him in an 1819 work, this title character exclaims,
17:35My Very Dog Has Forgotten Me.
17:3730 seconds.
17:38Good luck.
17:38My Very Dog Has Forgotten Me.
18:09Krista Feidel with a very impressive third-place score, 15,600.
18:13What did you come up with in Final Jeopardy, Krista?
18:16You wrote down, who is Rip Van Winkle?
18:18And that's correct.
18:19He's been asleep for 20 years.
18:21It's probably a different dog altogether.
18:22How much did you wager, Krista?
18:25All right.
18:25No wager at all.
18:2615,600.
18:28Hoping for mistakes from Trey and James.
18:30Let's find out first.
18:31Trey, did you have Rip Van Winkle?
18:34You got it.
18:35And what did you wager?
18:37Enough for the lead.
18:37$8,000.
18:38$24,200.
18:40So the pressure is on James Hirsch of Toronto.
18:43Does he have Rip Van Winkle?
18:45He's correct.
18:46Did he wager enough?
18:48Ooh, big payday today.
18:49$12,018 takes him to $32,418 American and makes him a new One Day Jeopardy champion.
18:57Well done, James.
18:59What a great game.
19:00Come back tomorrow.
19:01We may have another one just like it.
19:02See you then.
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