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
Today’s GSN episode starred Carol from Arizona, Mike from New Jersey, and 1-day champ Ray from Virginia. On yesterday’s episode, Ray beat 1-day champ Victoria, who had unseated 19-day champ David Madden. I don’t know about you, but I don’t like to see “giant-slayers” last only a day. It seems to indicate that their win was a fluke and that they shouldn’t have beat their opponent.
Anyway, Carol got off to a slow start, and was in the hole $2200 at the first commercial break. She stayed there until there were two categories remaining in the Jeopardy round, and then she flourished and even had the lead in the Double Jeopardy round, thanks in part to finding the two Daily Doubles and answering them correctly: Shakespeare’s Women: “She says of her husband, ‘His unkindness may defeat my life, but never taint my love.’ She was right.”* (Carol is a high school librarian, and that had to help with this category and with Final Jeopardy.)
And in the category Mountains: “The name of this sacred mountain is said to be derived from the Ainu word for ‘fire.'”*
Going into Final Jeopardy, Mike had the lead with $16400, Carol had $15400, and champ Ray had $9200. The Final Jeopardy category was Novelists: “His great-granddad wrote the best-seller ‘White Rose of Memphis,’ a city 40 miles north of the county in which he was raised.”* All three contestants got the right answer, but Mike wagered $14401 to Carol’s $5674, and he became the new champion.
Does it bother anyone else when contestant’s do these weird, meaningless-to-everyone-else wagers? I mean, why wager such an odd number? I think contestants shouldn’t waste their opportunity and should be serious about wagering for the win. I mean, would you rather tell your own acquaintances about the relevance of some weird wager you made, or would you rather have the whole country recognize you as a Jeopardy!champion? In this case, even if Carol would’ve wagered everything, she would’ve lost because Mike wagered for the win. But still. She didn’t do everything she could have done.
I was tearing off pages from my Jeopardy! page-a-day calendars (one from this year and one from last year) when I thought the clues might be fun to put on the blog. What Jeopardy! fan has ever seen enough clues, after all?
So here are two. Correct questions will be on the next entry:
American Literature; Final Jeopardy clue: “This 1854 series of essays on self-reliance was subtitled or, Life in the Woods.”
Notorious (Hey, that was the Final Jeopardy category on yesterday’s episode!); “In the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929, seven members of this man’s gang were shot dead.”
Finally, I am going to miss blogging on the next few days due to other commitments. (Still going to watch the show, of course!) I expect to blog next about Friday’s episode.
*Desdemona, Mount Fuji, Faulkner