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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Play Characters) for Friday, May 15, 2026 (Season 42, Game 180):
This title character of an 1890 play is often called “the female Hamlet”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Valerie Fulton, an attorney from Greenville, South Carolina
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Chayce Griffith, a professor of tree fruit physiology originally from Saline, Michigan
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Tristan Williams, a data scientist originally from Lincoln, Nebraska (7-day total: $132,900)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Tristan Williams is a 7-game Jeopardy! champion, having won $132,900 thus far. Today, he goes for win #8 against Chayce Griffith and Valerie Fulton. If Tristan were to lose today, my ToC tracker has Tristan at just over a 30% chance of receiving a bye to the semifinals of the next Tournament of Champions. Certainly, more wins would make his bye chances much higher, but what will Chayce and Valerie have to say about that?
In any case, today also sees Season 2, Episode 5 of Pop Culture Jeopardy! as well as the final of Celebrity Jeopardy! All-Stars.
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Correct response: Who is Hedda Gabler?
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The most prominent recent calling of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler as “the female Hamlet” comes from a 2025 BBC article. The article says “Hedda is often nicknamed the ‘female Hamlet’ because of her mercurial nature and vast, perhaps fathomless complexity, and the fact that the character has long been considered one of the greatest, if not the greatest, stage roles for women ever written.”
As Jeopardy! tends to go to the Ibsen well on a frequent basis, this definitely feels like a “if you want to study for the show, watch the show” Final Jeopardy clue. We shall see how it plays in studio.
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