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Season 34

Today’s Final Jeopardy – October 30, 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 19th Century Literature) for Monday, October 30, 2017 (Season 34, Episode 36):

This 1870 novel has a ship whose name is from the Greek for “sailor” & a captain whose name is Latin for “no one”

(correct response beneath the contestants)

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Today’s contestants:

Morgan Hanson, a Ph.D candidate from Tullahoma, Tennessee

Morgan Hanson on Jeopardy!

Charles Yu, a technical consultant from Hyattsville, Maryland

Charles Yu on Jeopardy!

Anand Kandaswamy, an economist from Washington, DC (1-day total: $10,001)

Anand Kandaswamy on Jeopardy!

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Jules Verne’s famous novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea: A Tour of the Underwater World, first serialized in March 1869 through June 1870 in the Magasin d’Éducation et de Récréation, featured Captain Nemo (Latin for “no one”) piloting the Nautilus (Greek for “sailor”). The book’s title refers to the distance traveled while in the Nautilus, not the depths to which the ship travelled, as 20,000 leagues (using the French metric league definition of 4 kilometers, not 3 nautical miles) would be six times the diameter of the Earth.

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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!

Scores going into Final:
Anand $21,200
Charles $5,800
Morgan $3,000

Tonight’s results:
Morgan $3,000 – $3,000 = $0 (What is Watership Down)
Charles $5,800 – $201 = $5,599 (What is the Ballad of Capn Crunch)
Anand $21,200 + $3,800 = $25,000 (2-day total: $35,001)

Anand Kandaswamy, tonight's Jeopardy! winner (for the October 30, 2017 episode.)

Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Anand $9,200
Morgan $2,800
Charles $2,200

Opening break taken after: 15 clues

Daily Double locations:
1) AVENGERS $800 (8th pick)
Anand 3400 +1600 (Charles 0 Morgan -600)
2) “Z” GRADE ENTERTAINMENT $2000 (16th pick)
Anand 18800 +1200 (Morgan 6400 Charles 4600)
3) YOU HAVE ME AT A LOSS $1600 (20th pick)
Morgan 8800 -1000 (Anand 20000 Charles 4600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 42

Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total $ Left On Board: $0

Game Stats:
Anand $21,200 Coryat, 25 correct, 1 incorrect, 40.35% in first on buzzer
Charles $5,800 Coryat, 9 correct, 0 incorrect, 14.04% in first on buzzer
Morgan $4,000 Coryat, 12 correct, 6 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer
Combined Coryat Score: $31,000
Lach Trash: $14,800 (on 13 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $8,200

Anand Kandaswamy, stats to date:
48 correct
6 incorrect
2/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $300)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
42.11% in first on buzzer (48/114)
Average Coryat: $17,500

Anand Kandaswamy, to win:
3 games: 55.36%
4: 30.65%
5: 16.97%
6: 9.39%
7: 5.20%
Avg. streak: 3.240 games.
(Note: This model has been adjusted to take pre-Final Jeopardy! score into account instead of Coryat Score.)

Miscellaneous:

  • Jon Eisenman, per the prediction model, is 97.701% to qualify for the Tournament of Champions with 4 games remaining.

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