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Season 42
Today’s Final Jeopardy – Friday, April 10, 2026
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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)
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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 Around The World) for Friday, April 10, 2026 (Season 42, Game 155):
A river named for the sacred lotus flower flows toward this 839,000-square-mile body of water
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Xaque Williams, a writer from Knoxville, Tennessee
Kathi Fitzgerald, an English teacher from Williamsburg, Virginia
Jamie Ding, a bureaucrat & law student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey (20-day total: $572,600)
Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Yesterday, Jamie Ding became only the 8th player to win at least 20 games in a row on Jeopardy!; today, he hopes to get win #21, tying fellow New Jerseyan Cris Pannullo for #6 in that list, while Xaque Williams from Tennessee and Kathi Fitzgerald from Virginia try to stop him.
What other marks is Jamie playing for today?
- Jamie is $51,012 away from Matt Jackson for #13 in all-time winnings, including tournaments and consolation prizes;
Jamie is 12 correct responses away from Mattea Roach and 15 correct responses away from Cris Pannullo for 6th and 5th, respectively, in terms of correct responses in regular play;
- Jamie (649) is currently #12 in terms of all-time correct responses (including tournaments); he is 4 behind #11 Andrew He (653), 27 behind #10 Victoria Groce (676), 37 behind #9 Cris Pannullo (686), and 39 behind #8 Roger Craig (688).
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Correct response: What is the Bay of Bengal?
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The river mentioned in this clue is the Padma River, which flows for over 200 miles through Bangladesh as one of the main distributaries of the Ganges before meeting with the Meghna en route to the Ganges Delta and the Bay of Bengal, located between the Indian subcontinent and the Indochinese peninsula. “Padma” is the Sanskrit word for lotus flower, giving the river its name.
This feels like a straightforward “What else could it be?” question, as “lotus flower” should ideally point contestants towards the Indian subcontinent. We shall see how it plays.
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Game Recap:
Jamie Ding found all three Daily Doubles, but he didn’t get all of them correct; his score was deflated by both that Daily Double miss and a pair of high-value incorrect resposnes in Double Jeopardy. That didn’t keep him from a runaway, although his lead wasn’t quite as big as some of his other games.
Final Jeopardy saw Jamie pick up another correct response as he is now a 21-day champion, with winnings over $600,000. He goes for win #22 on Monday.
Scores going into Final:
Jamie $26,800
Xaque $8,200
Kathi $200
Tonight’s results:
Kathi $200 – $0 = $200 (What is the Indian Ocean?)
Xaque $8,200 + $7,000 = $15,200 (What is Bay of Bengal)
Jamie $26,800 + $9,600 = $36,400 (What is the Bay of Bengal?) (21-day total: $609,000)
Game Stats:
Jamie $28,000 Coryat, 35 correct, 3 incorrect, 54.39% in first on buzzer (31/57), 3/4 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Xaque $8,200 Coryat, 16 correct, 3 incorrect, 31.58% in first on buzzer (18/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Kathi $200 Coryat, 3 correct, 2 incorrect, 8.77% in first on buzzer (5/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $36,400
Jamie Ding, to win:
22 games: 75.776%
23: 57.420%
24: 43.511%
25: 32.971%
26: 24.984%
Avg. streak: 24.128 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- This was Jamie’s 10th straight game with at least 30 correct responses. He’s still quite far from Ken Jennings’s record of 29, though.
- Today’s J!6 clues can be found at the monthly archive.
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