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
I’m glad today is my last day of keeping track of my results by tally. It is so uncomfortable to feel like I have to ring in in order to increase my total, when I know that is bad practice for the show! Today I went 22/28 in the Jeopardy round (swept American Heritage Dictionary Preferred Plurals) and 16/30 in Double Jeopardy. That seems low to me, especially because I swept “Hy” Five. My Double Jeopardy round was about as rough as 3-day champ Van Lane’s day was, overall. At the end of the Jeopardy round, he had -400, John Krizel had 5800, and soft-spoken Leslie Williams had 3200.
Speaking of John, he is the second person this week to resemble a tennis player. He looks exactly like tennis player Janko Tipsarevic, but these pictures don’t quite do it justice. What do you think?:
Van found the first Daily Double in the Double Jeopardy round in The West Indies immediately after missing this triple-stumper in the same category: “Buck Island National Monument in this U.S. territory has an underwater trail where snorkelers can view the coral.”* Van had -800 and wagered 2000 on the Daily Double. This was the clue: “3 main groups make up the West Indies: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and this nation north of Cuba.”* He got it right. Phew! Van found the other Daily Double in the round, too, this time with 8000 and trailing John by 5800.He wagered 3000 on this clue in the category Doctor Who: “…pioneered the use of carbolic acid to disinfect wounds and surgical instruments.”* He got it right again!
By the end of Double Jeopardy, Van had 13000, John had 17800, and Leslie had 4400. The Final Jeopardy category was No. 1 Pop Hits. Excellent! And I did in fact slam-dunk this clue before Mr. Trebek was done reading it: “A 1987 remake of this 1959 hit was the first song with all Spanish lyrics to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.”* John and Leslie got it right, while Van missed it. John, who wagered 8201, is your new champion!
*the Virgin Isles, the Bahamas, Lister, “La Bamba”