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Season 34

Today’s Final Jeopardy – October 2, 2017

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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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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 American Artists) for Monday, October 2, 2017 (Season 34, Episode 16):

This artist from Iowa once said, “All the really good ideas I’d ever had came to me while I was milking a cow”

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s contestants:

Bonnie Leih, an administrative assistant from Plumas Lake, California

Bonnie Leih on Jeopardy!

Veryl Gambino, a prosecutor from Berwyn, Illinois

Veryl Gambino on Jeopardy!

Austin Rogers, a bartender from New York, New York (4-day total: $123,100)

Austin Rogers on Jeopardy!

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Grant Wood, most famous for “American Gothic”, came to this realization after spending a couple of years in Paris. He had remarked in 1936:

…I came back because I learned that French painting is very fine for the French people and not necessarily for us, and because I started out to analyze what it was I really knew. I found it. It’s Iowa, … I realized that all the really good ideas I’d ever had came to me while I was milking a cow. So I went back to Iowa.

'American Gothic', the most famous painting of Grant Wood, subject of Final Jeopardy! on October 2, 2017.

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Scores going into Final:
Austin $42,800
Veryl $9,400
Bonnie $2,400

Final results:
Bonnie $2,400 – $400 = $2,000 (Who was Whistler?)
Veryl $9,400 – $3,000 = $6,400 (Who is Winslow? Winslow?)
Austin $42,800 + $22,800 = $65,600 (5-day total: $188,700)

Austin Rogers, winner of the October 2, 2017 episode of Jeopardy!

Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Veryl $6,600
Austin $5,000
Bonnie $2,800

Opening break taken after: 15 clues

Daily Double locations:
1) TRAVEL & TOURISM $600 (19th pick)
Veryl 1800 +1800 (Austin 3800 Bonnie 800)
2) THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE $1200 (9th pick)
Austin 8200 +6500 (Veryl 7800 Bonnie 3200)
3) MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1600 (19th pick)
Austin 18700 +15700 (Veryl 11000 Bonnie 4000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 263

Unplayed clues:
J! round: IRREGULAR VERBS $1000
DJ! Round: HISPANIC AMERICANS $1600 & $2000
Total $ Left On Board: $4,600

Game Stats:
Austin $23,400 Coryat, 26 correct, 1 incorrect, 42.59% in first on buzzer
Veryl $8,200 Coryat, 16 correct, 2 incorrect, 27.78% in first on buzzer
Bonnie $2,400 Coryat, 10 correct, 5 incorrect, 25.93% in first on buzzer
Combined Coryat Score: $34,000
Lach Trash: $6,200 (on 5 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $9,200

Austin Rogers, stats to date:
133 correct
17 incorrect
9/10 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $59,300)
5/5 in Final Jeopardy
45.45% in first on buzzer (125/275)
Average Coryat: $17,760

Austin Rogers, to win:
6 games: 84.61%
7: 71.59%
8: 60.57%
9: 51.25%
10: 43.37%
Avg. streak: 10.498 games.
(Note: This model has been adjusted to take pre-Final Jeopardy! score into account instead of Coryat Score.)

Miscellaneous:

  • $65,600, in regular play, is the 3rd-highest single game score of all time, after Roger Craig’s $77,000 on September 14, 2010 and Ken Jennings’ $75,000 on July 23, 2004. Andy Richter scored $68,000 in a celebrity game on September 17, 2009 and Skyler Hornback scored $66,600 in a Kids Week game on July 31, 2013. Including pre-doubled dollar values, Jerome Vered scored $34,000 ($68,000 if doubled) on May 21, 1992.

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  • Through a player’s first five games, adjusting for doubled dollar values, Austin’s total of $188,700 is the 4th-highest of all time, behind Frank Spangenberg ($102,597 pre-doubled), Roger Craig ($195,801), and Jerome Vered ($96,801 pre-doubled).
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