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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Plays & Playwrights) for Thursday, May 7, 2026 (Season 42, Game 174):
The first version of a 1960s play by this man had a slightly different title, ending with “Meet King Lear”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Robert Yan, a language expert from Huntsville, Alabama
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Helen Yoas, a retired librarian from Williamsport, Pennsylvania
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Tristan Williams, a data scientist originally from Lincoln, Nebraska (1-day total: $20,000)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Tristan Williams picked up 30 correct responses on yesterday’s episode despite going only 1-for-4 on the major clues. Today, he faces off against Alabama’s Robert Yan and Pennsylvania’s Helen Yoas.
The Unified Prediction Model, not particularly impressed with the net -$5,000 on the Daily Doubles from Tristan yesterday, is only giving our champion a 52% chance of victory today. That said: if Tristan does manager to turn that negative number into a positive (and can do so consistently), we might be setting up for a run as champion. If not, though, our carousel of champions may very well continue today.
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Correct response: Who is Tom Stoppard?
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Tom Stoppard’s famous absurdist play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead was originally titled Rosencrantz and Guildernstern Meet King Lear and was a one-act short play, before Stoppard took the characters out of the dementia-suffering Lear and expanded it into a full-length play, named after the Ambassador’s announcement to the Danish court shortly after Hamlet’s death in Act 5, Scene 2 of Hamlet.
This play has always been a favorite of the Jeopardy! writers; this would definitely be one of those “this will be easier to those who have been longtime fans of the show” clues.
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