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
September 26-27: S42 E174 (May 7, 2026)
October 3-4: S42 E175 (May 8, 2026)
October 10-11: S42 E176 (May 11, 2026)
(Source: Bell Fibe TV program guide)
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 Science Words) for Wednesday, February 26, 2020 (Season 36, Episode 122):
In 1611 Kepler used this word from the Latin for “attendant” to describe the discoveries of Galileo
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Greg Kihm, a systems engineer from Washington, D.C.
Signe Peterson Fourmy, a Ph.D. candidate from Austin, Texas
MacKenzie Jones, a program development director from Tulsa, Oklahoma (7-day total: $184,208)
With her seventh win yesterday, MacKenzie is moving up the ToC Tracker! See where she stands now!
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Correct response: What is satellite?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
Johannes Kepler coined the term “satellite” when using the telescope to confirm Galileo’s observing of four moons of Jupiter, naming that work Narratio de Observatis Quatuor Jovis Satellitibus (Narration about Four Satellites of Jupiter observed) that also served to confirm the heliocentric Copernican model of the universe. It’s now more generally defined as “a moon, planet, or machine that orbits a planet or star” (NASA).
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
MacKenzie $20,600
Greg $6,200
Signe $3,000
Tonight’s results:
Signe $3,000 – $2,500 = $500 (What planetary)
Greg $6,200 – $100 = $6,100 (What is astronomy?)
MacKenzie $20,600 + $0 = $20,600 (8-day total: $204,808) (What is satalite?)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
MacKenzie $8,800
Greg $3,400
Signe $3,400
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) THE EARTH $600 (clue #10)
MacKenzie 3200 +3200 (Signe 400 Greg 400)
2) NAMES OF THE 1920s $2000 (clue #16)
MacKenzie 12000 +5000 (Greg 6600 Signe 3400)
3) INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES $1600 (clue #28; $4,000 left on board)
Signe 5000 -2000 (MacKenzie 20600 Greg 6200)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 102
Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! Round: LET’S SPEAK HINDI! $2000
Total $ Left On Board: $2,000
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 253 (2.06 per episode average), 2 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
MacKenzie $15,000 Coryat, 21 correct, 1 incorrect, 32.14% in first on buzzer, 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Signe $5,000 Coryat, 8 correct, 2 incorrect, 16.07% in first on buzzer, 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Greg $6,200 Coryat, 13 correct, 3 incorrect, 28.57% in first on buzzer, 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $26,200
Lach Trash: $19,600 (on 16 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $6,200
MacKenzie Jones, stats to date:
160 correct, 19 incorrect
10/11 on rebound attempts (on 33 rebound opportunities)
34.77% in first on buzzer (153/440)
8/9 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $42,200)
7/8 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $14,975
MacKenzie Jones, to win:
9 games: 68.653%
10: 47.133%
11: 32.358%
12: 22.215%
13: 15.251%
Avg. streak: 10.190 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- MacKenzie becomes the 15th player in Jeopardy! history to win at least $200,000 in regular play.
- Alex sure is having a good time poking fun at MacKenzie’s spelling. Of course, the rules are such that the response only need be spelled phonetically correct, and “satalite” certainly is.
- Fun fact: Back in Season 1, the question of “who picks first in Double Jeopardy! when there’s a tie for second after the Jeopardy! round?” was broken in favour of the player who game the most recent correct response. I am unsure of when the rule changed to “the player whose lectern is closest to Alex makes the selection”.
- This week’s games were the first regular games taped following the Greatest of All Time matches; to me, it seemed like the LITERARY LEE category may have been originally written for that event (at least, it seemed to play very difficultly).
- If you’re in Cleveland, it sounds like WOIO had some technical difficulties and failed to play the Double Jeopardy! round.
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