Today’s Final Jeopardy – Tuesday, January 24, 2023

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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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 New York Times Clue of the Day (in the category Foreign-Born Authors) for Tuesday, January 24, 2023 (Season 39, Game 97):

In the 1950s the New York Times said this author “is writing about all lust” & his lecherous narrator “is all of us”

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:

Linda Napikoski, an ESL instructor originally from Phoenix, Arizona

Joe Incollingo, a film & TV publicist from Los Angeles, California

Troy Meyer, a music executive from Tampa, Florida (3-day total: $97,600)

Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:

Today on Jeopardy!, Linda Napikoski and Joe Incollingo do battle against Troy Meyer, who has had three runaways in three wins thus far. That has put Troy at the top of the list of this season’s 3-game winners; today’s game, though, is absolutely crucial for his potential Tournament of Champions chances.

I’m going to use my platform today to talk a little bit about some of the things that Yogesh Raut has been in the news for saying as of late. Yogesh has certainly been the recipient of a much-more-than-normal amount of harassment and negativity over the past two weeks, and a non-zero amount of that has been because of the color of his skin. How many of Yogesh’s statements would be ignored, glossed over, or even defended more vigorously if he was white? And the tabloid media circus that has surrounded the show over the past eighteen months has only served to amplify things, to the point where this certainly would have already died down had this occurred in the past.

Still: if this was a certain “Am I The…” subreddit I would definitely be leaving an “Everybody Sucks Here” comment. A lot of fans (not everybody, but a lot) have acted very poorly, and Yogesh’s past actions leading up to this haven’t exactly been pristine, either. (Unfortunately, I also don’t really see anyone in the situation actually changing much about their actions.)

In any case, onwards and upwards—and it would not surprise me if Jeopardy! set its next Tournament of Champions field in order to portray Yogesh as a heel for most viewers to cheer against.

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Correct response: Who is Vladimir Nabokov?

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The words come from Elizabeth Janeway’s August 17, 1958 review of the Vladimir Nabokov work Lolita.

Regarding cluing: this is the second time this month that Jeopardy! has used the category “Foreign-Born Authors”. In both cases now (Isabel Allende and Vladimir Nabokov), you have an author who was born in another country (thereby inviting a pinning controversy had Jeopardy! used the term “American”) but did a significant amount of writing while in the United States (also inviting a pinning controversy had Jeopardy! used “World Literature”). I don’t know what else Jeopardy! can do here, if they even should do anything. It’s clear, though, that the category title is a massive hint in the direction of “someone who was born outside of the United States, but did a significant amount of their writing in the United States”.

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Game Recap:

Jeopardy! Round:

(Categories: Dante’s Circles Of Hell, Defined; What Season Is It?; Say It With Advertising; They’re Bad In Books; 3.7 Trillion Fish In The Ocean; Finding Nimoy)

Troy’s general dominance continued today, with him picking up 17 correct and the Daily Double; his score was over five figures after 30 clues.

Statistics at the first break (15 clues):

Troy 7 correct 0 incorrect
Joe 5 correct 1 incorrect
Linda 2 correct 0 incorrect

Statistics after the Jeopardy round:

Troy 17 correct 1 incorrect
Joe 7 correct 1 incorrect
Linda 4 correct 0 incorrect

Double Jeopardy! Round:

(Categories: A Look At Symbols; January In Recent History; Europe A-Go-Go; Pop Culture Goes To Mars; Opera; Last But Not Least)

Linda had the best time in Double Jeopardy of the two challengers, as she nearly doubled up on the game’s final Daily Double. Unfortunately for her, Troy picked up another 17 correct in the round, including the game’s middle Daily Double, to have a commanding runaway going into Final. Scores going into Final were Troy at $32,800, Linda at $10,300, and Joe at $7,400.

Statistics after Double Jeopardy:

Troy 34 correct 3 incorrect
Linda 10 correct 0 incorrect
Joe 11 correct 2 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 14 (0 today).

Final today was a triple get—Troy got a crucial win #4; he goes for win #5 tomorrow!

Tonight’s Game Stats:

Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Tuesday, January 24, 2023 Jeopardy! by the numbers:

Scores going into Final:

Troy $32,800
Linda $10,300
Joe $7,400

Tonight’s results:

Joe $7,400 + $5,000 = $12,400 (Who is Nabokov?)
Linda $10,300 + $4,501 = $14,801 (Who is Nabokov?)
Troy $32,800 + $7,200 = $40,000 (Who is Nabokov?) (4-day total: $137,600)

Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:

Troy $10,400
Joe $3,800
Linda $2,600

Opening break taken after: 15 clues

Daily Double locations:

1) THEY’RE BAD IN BOOKS $800 (clue #8)
Troy 2400 +2400 (Joe 600 Linda 0)
2) OPERA $1200 (clue #5)
Troy 11200 +6000 (Joe 3400 Linda 2600)
3) JANUARY IN RECENT HISTORY $1200 (clue #11, $18800 left on board)
Linda 4200 +4100 (Troy 22400 Joe 3400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 251

Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:

J! Round:
Troy 4 4 5 3 4 4*
Joe 2 3
Linda

DJ! Round:
Troy 5 4 3* 3 4 5 5 4
Joe 3
Linda 4 3*

Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:

Troy 4.07
Linda 3.50
Joe 2.67

Unplayed clues:

J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 14 (0.14 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles

Game Stats:

Troy $26,400 Coryat, 34 correct, 3 incorrect, 59.65% in first on buzzer (34/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Linda $7,400 Coryat, 10 correct, 0 incorrect, 15.79% in first on buzzer (9/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Joe $7,400 Coryat, 11 correct, 2 incorrect, 22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $41,200
Lach Trash: $6,200 (on 5 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $6,600

Troy Meyer, career statistics:

128 correct, 8 incorrect
6/8 on rebound attempts (on 14 rebound opportunities)
51.75% in first on buzzer (118/228)
6/6 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $24,600)
3/4 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $27,450

Joe Incollingo, career statistics:

12 correct, 2 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $7,400

Linda Napikoski, career statistics:

11 correct, 0 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
15.79% in first on buzzer (9/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $4,100)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $7,400

Troy Meyer, to win:

5 games: 88.944%
6: 79.110%
7: 70.363%
8: 62.584%
9: 55.664%
Avg. streak: 12.045 games.

Today’s interviews:

Linda wants to visit the best bookstore in all 50 states.
Joe went as a Batman villain for Hallowe’en in college.
Troy was married in the same church in Ireland that his partner’s grandparents were married in.

Andy’s Thoughts:

• Troy is the 7th player in the “Sky’s The Limit” era—Anne Boyd, Jason Richards, Steve Unite, Matt Jackson, Kevin Walsh, and Cris Pannullo are the other six—to have runaways in their first four wins. None of them got a runaway in their fifth game.
• I have made a small change to the prediction model that increases the amount of variance used in the model, explaining the slight drop in Troy’s win percentage.
• From the Site Comment Policy: “Complaints that the show failed to miss a response not in the form of a question are always improper and will be instantly removed. The judges have the ability to isolate contestant audio and are always willing to stop tape to confirm. If a response is not in the form of a question, the judges will tell us. Moreover, this sort of behavior is akin to those who used to call into the PGA Tour with rules violations. It’s incredibly gauche. Viewers are also reminded that failing to form a response in the form of a question is a warning violation in the game’s opening round, and only a penalty violation in Double Jeopardy!.”

• Today’s box score: January 24, 2023 Box Score.

Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:

(Scores: Troy $32,800 Linda $10,300 Joe $7,400)

Troy: Limit your bet to $12,199 and enjoy win #4! (Actual bet: $7,200)

Joe: If Linda bets to cover you and is incorrect, she falls to $5,799. Limit your bet to $1,599. (Actual bet: $5,000)

Linda: Standard cover bet over Joe is $4,501. (Actual bet: $4,501)

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