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.
(Click Here for Methodology)
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 contestants:
Sam Gale, a test reader & evaluator from Kernersville, NC
Doug Behrend, a college professor from Fayetteville, AR
Sarah Thompson, an art history professor from Rochester, NY (1-day total: $16,999)
Scores going into Final Jeopardy:
Doug $9,200
Sarah $8,200
Sam $7,000
Final Jeopardy! category: 20TH CENTURY INVENTIONS
Final Jeopardy! clue: In the 1950s physicist Louis Essen built the first practical one of these, noting that it wouldn’t give you the time of day
What is an atomic clock?
Sam 7000 + 2900 = 9900
Sarah 8200 + 6000 = 14200
Doug 9200 + 7201 = 16401 (1-day total: $16,401)
Regarding the clue? Ba-dum-tish! I eventually stopped groaning long enough to put the correct response down to Final Jeopardy.
Meanwhile, From the Royal Society of Chemistry:
Essen learned about the abortive experiments on a visit to Washington in 1950. He returned to the UK convinced that he could build a better clock by combining Rabi’s atomic beam methods with his own quartz timekeeper. He chose caesium because the hyperfine coupling between its single valence electron and nucleus gave a pair of conveniently separated spin states with long lifetimes. He packed a version of Rabi’s apparatus into an evacuated 1.5m tube, with the improvement of Norman Ramsey’s U-shaped microwave cavity providing two excitation regions and thus much narrower signals. The detector was now connected to a clock built from one of Essen’s quartz rings, kept precisely in time by linking it to the rf field in a feedback loop. Any slowing of the ring’s rhythm would pull the rf field off resonance, causing a change in the detected signal and automatically triggering a correction of the beat. His first clock kept time to within one second in 300 years; Essen was so excited that he dragged the director of the NPL [National Physical Laboratory] ‘to witness the birth of atomic time’.
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