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
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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 European Authors) for Monday, September 16, 2019 (Season 36, Episode 6):
When he didn’t win the inaugural 1901 Nobel Prize, 42 of his peers apologized to him, calling him “the most revered patriarch of today’s literature”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Rodrigo Morante-Tirado, a financial analyst from Ottawa, Ontario
Laura Majors, a retired marketing director from Denver, Colorado
Jason Zuffranieri, a math teacher from Albuquerque, New Mexico (11-day total: $332,243)
Now that Jason has won 10, you can find the game-by-game statistics of his run here!
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Correct response: Who is Leo Tolstoy?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
The early Nobel Prize committees, dare I say here at The Jeopardy! Fan, used a different interpretation of Alfred Nobel’s will than today’s committee. Namely, the “ideal direction” clause from Nobel’s will was interpreted as “a lofty and sound idealism”. What this meant was that authors who would have been considered shoo-ins for the prize today (i.e. Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen, Émile Zola and Mark Twain) never received one. Moreover, Tolstoy wasn’t even nominated for the 1901 prize (which went to French poet Sully Prudhomme), which prompted 42 authors, including August Strindberg, to send a proclamation to Tolstoy.
You can find the full text of the proclamation at the Nobel Prize website.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Jason $34,400
Laura $8,800
Rodrigo $200
Tonight’s results:
Rodrigo $200 – $199 = $1 (Who is Camus?)
Laura $8,800 + $8,000 = $16,800
Jason $34,400 – $10,000 = $24,400 (12-day total: $356,643) (Who is Goethe?)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Jason $10,000
Laura $4,000
Rodrigo -$1,000
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) ART & ARTISTS $800 (6th pick)
Jason 2600 +2600 (Laura 0 Rodrigo -600)
2) WHICH PRESIDENT? $1600 (8th pick)
Jason 14400 +7000 (Laura 6400 Rodrigo -3000)
3) THIS CATEGORY HAS PLATEAUED $1600 (13th pick)
Jason 22200 +3000 (Laura 7600 Rodrigo -600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 162
Unplayed clues:
J! round: ACRONYMNS & ABBREVS. $200; POPULAR INVENTION $200; 200 YEARS OF WALT WHITMAN $200
DJ! Round: DJ! Round: THIS CATEGORY HAS PLATEAUED $400; HERE COMES THE JUDGE WORD $400
Total $ Left On Board: $1,400
Game Stats:
Jason $25,800 Coryat, 27 correct, 1 incorrect, 40.38% in first on buzzer, 4/4 on rebound attempts (on 9 rebound opportunities)
Laura $8,800 Coryat, 18 correct, 4 incorrect, 38.46% in first on buzzer, 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Rodrigo $200 Coryat, 4 correct, 5 incorrect, 15.38% in first on buzzer, 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $34,800
Lach Trash: $8,200 (on 6 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $9,600
Jason Zuffranieri, stats to date:
353 correct, 28 incorrect
21/23 on rebound attempts (on 47 rebound opportunities)
48.62% in first on buzzer (318/654)
23/28 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $72,900)
7/12 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $24,950
Jason Zuffranieri, to win:
13 games: 86.354%
14: 74.570%
15: 64.394%
16: 55.607%
17: 48.018%
Avg. streak: 18.328 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- It didn’t seem as though Jason was quite as dominant on the buzzer during this match as he was last week. It would have been his second straight day of taping; it’s quite possible that he’s starting to fatigue. With last season’s taping schedule, it’d be the first time he’d have to show up to the studio on back-to-back days.
- There are many cases in games such as this one where the show’s editors will clip contestant’s phrasing, as there’s no other way to fit the played number of clues into time. Rest assured that every response in this game was phrased properly; comments suggesting otherwise will be considered out-of-order and deleted.
- On Reddit, Rodrigo reported that the plug for Batman Day was filmed afterwards; of course, this is ideal as it means those plugs don’t interrupt the flow of the game.
- Thank you to Mark Barrett for providing me with a full chart of this game.
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