Current Champion
Nikolas Polsinelli, career statistics:
44 correct, 6 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
35.96% in first on buzzer (41/114)
4/5 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $10,600)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $17,500
To win:
3 games: 64.111%
4: 41.102%
5: 26.351%
6: 16.894%
7: 10.831%
Avg. streak: 3.786 games.
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Upcoming Encore Presentations
October 3-4: S42 E175 (May 8, 2026)
October 10-11: S42 E176 (May 11, 2026)
(Source: Bell Fibe TV program guide)
All Time Winnings
All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Regular Play Only:
1. Ken Jennings $2,520,700
2. James Holzhauer $2,462,216
3. Matt Amodio $1,518,601
4. Amy Schneider $1,382,800
5. Jamie Ding $882,605
6. Cris Pannullo $748,286
7. Mattea Roach $560,983
8. Jason Zuffranieri $532,496
9. Scott Riccardi $455,000
10. David Madden $430,400
11. Julia Collins $428,100
12. Matt Jackson $411,612
13. Austin Rogers $411,000
14. Ray Lalonde $386,400
15. Harrison Whitaker $373,999
16. Adriana Harmeyer $349,600
17. Caleb Groen $346,968
18. Adam Remsen $306,415
19. Ryan Long $299,400
20. Arthur Chu $297,200
All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Including Tournaments (and Consolation Prizes):
1. Brad Rutter $4,968,436
2. Ken Jennings $4,372,700
3. James Holzhauer $3,614,216
4. Matt Amodio $1,964,601
5. Amy Schneider $1,864,800
6. Yogesh Raut $1,598,403
7. Victoria Groce $1,023,801
8. Mattea Roach $897,983
9. Jamie Ding $885,605
10. David Madden $785,733
11. Cris Pannullo $754,286
12. Roger Craig $706,200
13. Andrew He $684,365
14. Larissa Kelly $671,930
15. Matt Jackson $623,612
16. Jason Zuffranieri $549,496
17. Paolo Pasco $548,717
18. Scott Riccardi $533,000
19. Jerome Vered $499,102
20. Julia Collins $495,767
21. Austin Rogers $493,000
22. Juveria Zaheer $491,000
23. Ben Ingram $449,201
24. Adriana Harmeyer $446,600
25. Buzzy Cohen $441,603
It pained me today to have to stop recording one of two U.S. Open men’s matches (Verdasco/Fognini or Djokovic/Troicki) in order to watch a Celebrity Jeopardy rerun. Don’t get me wrong; you know I love Jeopardy!, but I can’t believe they would choose to rerun the celebrity episodes right now over anything else, like, maybe this year’s Tournament of Champions? That would’ve made shutting the recording off so much easier, even though it had to be only half an hour. What would you guys want to see these last two weeks of the summer break? I’ve put up a poll. Look for it below my logo above.
Today’s contestants:
Julie Bowen Robin Quivers
Jane Kaczmarek
Did you guys know this triple-stumper in the Jeopardy round’s Agents and Managers?: “It’s the nickname of Hall of Fame baseball manager George Anderson of the Reds and Tigers.”*
By the first break, Julie had 3200, Jane had 1400, and Robin had 0, as she had not rung in yet. She answered her first clue (correctly) in Agents and Managers, with two categories left in play in the Jeopardy round. It wound up being the only clue she responded to in the round. Here it is: “Anne Hathaway was Agent 99 to Steve Carell’s Agent 86 in this movie adaptation from the small screen.”*
Like yesterday, the Daily Double of the Jeopardy round remained uncovered. Julie had 6600 at the end of the round, Jane had 5200, and Robin had 1000.
Julie found the first Daily Double in the Double Jeopardy round, in Un-outsource-able. She seemed to shun strategy and randomly choose a wager, because she said “Half” (of her 10200). Jane had 6000 at the time, and Robin had 4200. This was the clue: “This type of healer who adjusts and aligns you based on a system developed in 1895.”* She got it right.
Later, Julie “moved away” from What’s Opera, Doc category that Jane had been choosing. When Jane went back to it, the next clue in the category was the second Daily Double! But if Julie perceives it as a weaker category for her, maybe it’s for the best that she didn’t find it. Jane admitted she was following Julie’s lead when she wagered 5000. Maybe they don’t watch the show and don’t know about wagering strategies? At any rate, this was the clue: “Marcello fetches a doctor bt Mimi still dies, leaving Rodolfo heartbroken at the end of this opera.”* Jane seemed to know it right away.
At the end of the round, Julie had 15300, Jane had 23400, and Robin had 4200. The Final Jeopardy category was Film Directors. Perhaps the Jeopardy! people were hoping to draw big wagers from the contestants? This was the clue: “His work of the 1930s and 40s is so associated with sentimentality that his name is often combined with ‘corn.'”* Jane was the only one to get it right, so it didn’t really matter that Julie once again made an arguably unreasonable wager: She wagered everything! Jane was today’s champion, then.
*Sparky, Get Smart, chiropractor, La Boheme, Capra