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Detailed statistics for the Monday, October 26, 2026 episode of Jeopardy! (Jamie Calandro, Karen Bradley, Shannon Leigh Godwin).

(TJF Plus) Daily Details - Monday, October 26, 2026

Published October 26, 2026 - 8:59 a.m. Modified October 26, 2026 - 1:00 p.m.

Current Champion

Shannon Leigh Godwin, career statistics:
18 correct, 0 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,400)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $11,400

To win:
5 games: 63.538%
6: 40.371%
7: 25.651%
8: 16.298%
9: 10.355%
Avg. streak: 5.743 games.
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October 24-25: S42 E178 (May 13, 2026)
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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

Welcome to the TJ!F Plus Daily Details section. For those free logged-in users, more information is available about the results of today's game!

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Today's Jeopardy! contestants:

Jamie Calandro, a high school music teacher from Ellsworth, Maine

Karen Bradley, a regulatory operations director from Long Island City, New York

Shannon Leigh Godwin, an interior designer from Oakland, California

Shannon enters today's game as a 1-day champion with winnings of $16,001.

Andy's Pregame Thoughts:

On Friday's show, Shannon Leigh Godwin of Oakland was able to prevent Anthony Cantor from running the entire taping week's worth of games; she returns today as a 1-day champion. Today, she faces off against Karen Bradley of Long Island and Jamie Calandro of Maine.

For the third Monday in succession, the J!6 questions have been late to appear on Jeopardy!'s website; this is certainly a trend that I am not particularly a fan of!

Final Jeopardy! Category: Tributes

Final Jeopardy! Clue: To honor the 126th birthday of this Nobel Prize winner, a Google Doodle featured a cat & a feline ghost

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Correct response: Who is Erwin Schrödinger?

More Information About Final Jeopardy!:

Erwin Schrödinger, who shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Paul Dirac, is known for his work in quantum physics, including a namesake equation that allows for the calculation of a wave function and how it might change dynamically. He's best known in "popular science" for a thought experiment involving a cat, which he devised after significant correspondence with Albert Einstein regarding quantum superposition. A hypothetical cat placed inside a closed box with a flask of poison and radioactive material, where the poison is not released until sufficient decay has occurred, might be thought of as simultaneously alive and dead while it is unobserved, but one or the other when it is observed—leaving the question of when quantum superposition ends and when it resolves into one state or another.

That being said, Schrödinger's legacy has been complicated significantly since the publication of a 1989 biography by Walter Moore, relating the scientist's tutoring and subsequent relationship in the 1920s with Ithi Junger; the relationship began when she was 14 years old. While Magdalana and Martin Gronau published a 2026 paper that said that their "findings suggest that the widely circulated allegations in the media stem from a combination of unprofessional, suggestive biographical writing and poor journalism," a number of locations associated with the physicist have chosen to remove his name from commemorations. Certainly, it would not surprise me if the choice of today's Final Jeopardy subject ended up generating negative feedback online as a result of this.

The Google Doodle is still available on Google's website, from August 12, 2013.

Game Recap & Tonight's Game Stats:

Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here's the Monday, October 26, 2026 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:

Jeopardy! Round:

(Categories: Parts Of Speech; In Good Company; TV-Pourri; All I Need; In This Life Of Sin; Is Me & My Squirrel Friend)

Shannon lost $3,000 just before the first commercial break; at the break, the scores were Karen $800 Shannon $200 Jamie $0.

Statistics at the first break (14 clues):

Karen 2 correct 1 incorrect
Shannon 6 correct 1 incorrect
Jamie 3 correct 2 incorrect

Today's interviews:

Jamie is also a fantasy sports writer.
Karen has a 1,827-day New York Times crossword streak.
Shannon was once a backup singer to Kenny Loggins.

Shannon recovered well from her miss, picking up 7 correct after the break to regain the lead. On the opening board, Shannon got 4 in the TV category.

Statistics after the Jeopardy round:

Shannon 13 correct 1 incorrect
Karen 5 correct 1 incorrect
Jamie 5 correct 2 incorrect

Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:

Shannon $4,200
Karen $2,000
Jamie $400

Double Jeopardy! Round:

(Categories: The World Leader's Haiku; Getting Your "B.A."; American Bodies Of Water; Coming Up Short; Pleasing Poetry; Controversial Movie Villains)

A difficult Double Jeopardy Round saw Karen lose a combined $6,000 on the two Daily Doubles—enough to put her in third and ensure that Shannon led entering Final Jeopardy. (That said, it wasn't a runaway and all three players were still in score contention.) On that second board, Karen got 3 in "B.A." and Jamie got 3 in movie villains.

Statistics after Double Jeopardy:

Shannon 20 correct 2 incorrect
Jamie 10 correct 3 incorrect
Karen 11 correct 4 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 3 (0 today).

Scores going into Final:

Shannon $8,200
Jamie $4,800
Karen $3,600

Karen and Shannon were both correct in Final Jeopardy, and that makes Shannon a 2-day champion! She'll go for win #3 tomorrow.

Tonight's results:

Karen $3,600 + $3,300 = $6,900 (Who is Schrodinger?)
Jamie $4,800 - $3,401 = $1,399 (Who is Lewis Carroll?)
Shannon $8,200 + $1,401 = $9,601 (Who is Schroedinger?) (2-day total: $25,602)

Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:

Daily Double locations:

1) IN THIS LIFE OF SIN $800 (clue #14)
Shannon 3200 -3000 (Karen 800 Jamie 0)
2) COMING UP SHORT $2000 (clue #20)
Karen 9600 -4000 (Shannon 7000 Jamie 4400)
3) THE WORLD LEADER'S HAIKU $1600 (clue #22, $8000 left on board)
Karen 6000 -2000 (Shannon 7000 Jamie 4400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -169

Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:

J! Round:
Shannon 4 3 2 3 3 2 4*
Karen 5 2 1
Jamie 2 4 3 4

DJ! Round:
Shannon 2 3 4 3 5 4
Karen 3 2 5 2 3 4 5 1 5* 1 4*
Jamie 2 3 3 2 4

Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:

Shannon 3.23
Karen 3.07
Jamie 3.00

Unplayed clues:

J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 3 (0.10 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles

Game Stats:

Shannon $11,200 Coryat, 20 correct, 2 incorrect, 35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Karen $9,600 Coryat, 11 correct, 4 incorrect, 22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Jamie $4,800 Coryat, 10 correct, 3 incorrect, 19.30% in first on buzzer (11/57), 0/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $25,600
Lach Trash: $19,200 (on 16 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $9,200
Lead Changes: 6
Times Tied: 0

Player Statistics:

Shannon Leigh Godwin, career statistics:

39 correct, 2 incorrect
3/3 on rebound attempts (on 9 rebound opportunities)
29.82% in first on buzzer (34/114)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$1,600)
2/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $11,300

Karen Bradley, career statistics:

12 correct, 4 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57)
0/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$6,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,600

Jamie Calandro, career statistics:

10 correct, 4 incorrect
0/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
19.30% in first on buzzer (11/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $4,800

Shannon Leigh Godwin, to win:

3 games: 53.524%
4: 28.648%
5: 15.334%
6: 8.207%
7: 4.393%
Avg. streak: 3.152 games.

Andy's Thoughts:

It should be noted that Shannon's spelling is technically more correct than Karen's is, as ö is replaced with oe and not o.

Nobody will bat an eye, really, that the World Leaders category went 0-for-5. But because it's not a football category…it won't go viral at all, and fans are more likely to blame the writers, as opposed to the contestants.

Today's J!6 clues can be found at the monthly archive.

Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:

(Scores: Shannon $8,200 Jamie $4,800 Karen $3,600)

Shannon: Standard cover bet over Jamie is $1,401. (Actual bet: $1,401)

Karen: You can't both stay ahead of Jamie if he's incorrect and pass Shannon if you're right and she isn't. Thus, you should go all in to maximize your winnings on a singleton get in Final Jeopardy for you. (Actual bet: $3,300)

Jamie: Standard cover bet over Karen is $2,401. (Actual bet: $3,401)