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Season 32

Quick Recap & Today’s Final Jeopardy – May 26, 2016

Published

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 contestants:

Dan Rothfarb, a technical writer and editor from Annandale, VA

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Riley Molin, a political science student from Bloomington, IN

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Buzzy Cohen, a music executive from Los Angeles, CA (8-day total: $147,803)

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Scores going into Final Jeopardy:
Buzzy $16,800
Dan $7,600
Riley $2,200

Final Jeopardy! category: ART HISTORY

Final Jeopardy! clue: Escalier is the original title of a work by this artist that scandalized NYC’s International Exhibition of Modern Art in 1913

Who is Marcel Duchamp? (Check the comments section for any incorrect responses.)


Riley 2200 – 2199 = 1 Dan 7600 – 2400 = 5200 Buzzy 16800 – 0 = 16800 (9-day total: $164,603)

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Here’s the work, best known now as “Nude Descending A Staircase, No. 2”.

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From an NPR retrospective about the 100th anniversary of the 1913 show, also known as the “Armory Show”:

The most talked-about painting in the 1913 Armory Show deconstructed a human figure in abstract brown panels in overlapping motion. Marcel Duchamp’s Cubist-inspired Nude Descending a Staircase was famously described by one critic as “an explosion in a shingle factory.”In 1963, on the 50th anniversary of the Armory Show, Duchamp was interviewed by CBS reporter Charles Collingwood. The audio is now at the Smithsonian’s Archive of American Art.When Collingwood asked Duchamp if he had realized that the piece would create “such a “furor,” the artist responded: “Not the slightest. In the first place, I was a very young painter, 26 years old. Never had been to America. Wasn’t here at the time.”Duchamp said he was in France when he got word that his painting had sold for $324. After the commission, he received $240 — about $5,565, in today’s dollars. Not bad for an artist unknown in this country at the time.

On a more personal note, this painting came up during a crucial Reach For The Top match for my team many years ago. We did not have the foggiest idea about it.


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  • Incorrect responses to Final:
    Riley: MC Escher
    Dan: Gustave Klimt
    Buzzy: Once more, Trebek…Once more.

    Game Stats:
    Buzzy: 16,400 Coryat, 22 correct, 1 incorrect, 35.09% in first on buzzer
    Dan: 10,400 Coryat, 18 correct, 6 incorrect, 38.60% in first on buzzer
    Riley: 2,200 Coryat, 7 correct, 2 incorrect, 14.04% in first on buzzer
    11 Triple Stumpers

    Buzzy Cohen, through 9 games:
    189 correct
    34 incorrect
    12/17 on Daily Doubles
    5/9 in Final Jeopardy
    In First on Buzzer: 37.42%
    Average Coryat Score: $14,622

    Buzzy Cohen, to win:
    10 games: 49.15%
    11: 24.15%
    12: 11.87%
    13: 5.83%
    14: 2.87%
    Avg. streak: 9.966 games.


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