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)
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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
Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Classic Fiction) for Friday, December 20, 2019 (Season 36, Episode 75):
A 1902 work says of a riverboat journey, “We penetrated deeper and deeper into” this, the work’s title
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Claire Marinello-Fisher, an ESL professor from Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey
Lucy Yuan, a lawyer from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Eric Smith, a bartender from Tucson, Arizona (1-day total: $17,000)
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Correct response: What is Heart of Darkness?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
Joseph Conrad wrote Heart of Darkness after his experiences in the early 1890s serving on a Belgian trading steamship on the Congo River. On one of Conrad’s real-life trips, the captain took ill and Conrad assumed command. Protagonist Charles Marlow was based upon Conrad himself.
While it was serialized in 1899 as a three-part story in Blackwood’s Magazine, it was not published in a book until 1902 (included in Youth: a Narrative, and Two Other Stories.) Note that Encyclopedia Britannica cites a publication date of 1902.
The work was famously moved to Vietnam and Cambodia during the Vietnam War and adapted into the classic 1979 Francis Ford Coppola film Apocalypse Now.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Eric $13,500
Claire $12,400
Lucy $8,400
Tonight’s results:
Lucy $8,400 + $3,000 = $11,400
Claire $12,400 + $4,401 = $16,801
Eric $13,500 + $11,500 = $25,000 (2-day total: $42,000)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Claire $8,800
Lucy $6,000
Eric $3,200
Opening break taken after: 14 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) WRITERS GO WAY BACK $200 (14th pick)
Claire 2200 +2000 (Lucy 3200 Eric 800)
2) THE MARSHALL PLAN $1600 (7th pick)
Eric 6000 +5000 (Claire 10000 Lucy 6800)
3) COMPOSERS & THEIR WORKS $2000 (30th pick)
Eric 19000 -5500 (Claire 12400 Lucy 8400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 145
Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total $ Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 116 (1.55 per episode average), 1 Daily Double
Game Stats:
Eric $15,600 Coryat, 21 correct, 5 incorrect, 38.60% in first on buzzer, 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Clairs $10,600 Coryat, 20 correct, 4 incorrect, 26.84% in first on buzzer, 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Lucy $8,400 Coryat, 13 correct, 1 incorrect, 19.30% in first on buzzer, 2/3 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $34,600
Lach Trash: $7,400 (on 5 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $12,000
Eric Smith, stats to date:
48 correct, 10 incorrect
4/5 on rebound attempts (on 12 rebound opportunities)
42.34% in first on buzzer (47/111)
2/4 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$500)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $18,900
Eric Smith, to win:
3 games: 56.118%
4: 31.492%
5: 17.673%
6: 9.918%
7: 5.566%
Avg. streak: 3.279 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- The most recent time that the Jeopardy! round Daily Double was in the $200 box was on March 1, 2006.
- Reminder: As has already been brought up in the comment section, the rules of the show are such that leading articles may be added, removed, or changed to a different article without penalty, so long as there is no confusion with another work. Thus, because there is no “A Heart of Darkness” or “The Heart of Darkness”, all of “Heart of Darkness”, “A Heart of Darkness”, and “The Heart of Darkness” are all counted as equivalently correct by the judges.
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