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Season 32

Quick Recap & Today’s Final Jeopardy – April 21, 2016

Published Modified

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)
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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

Thanks for visiting The Jeopardy! Fan!

Where is Andrew sitting on our Tournament of Champions tracker?

Today’s contestants:

Jonpaul Guinn, a quiz host and writer from Providence, RI

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Beth Dunn, a product demonstrator from Brooklyn, NY

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Andrew Pau, an assistant professor from Amherst, OH (4-day total: $123,802)

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Don’t forget to give a listen to my recent interview with librarian extraordinaire (and viral sensation) Margaret Miles!

Scores going into Final Jeopardy:
Andrew $20,400
Beth $14,200
Jonpaul $12,200

Final Jeopardy! category: CITY NAME ORIGINS

Final Jeopardy! clue: This city that’s home to an NFL team is named for an 18th-century British Prime Minister

What is Pittsburgh? (Jonpaul went for ?, Beth for Cleveland, and Andrew Abbotsford)


Jonpaul 12200 – 5000 = 7200 Beth 14200 – 14100 = 100 Andrew 20400 – 8001 = 12399 (5-day total: $136,201)

(In case you were wondering: Andrew’s the first five-time champion since Matt Jackson.)

Of course, the Prime Minister was Pitt The Elder. (For the record: I don’t have a preference in the Barney-Wade Boggs debate, but that is my favourite scene in my favourite Simpsons episode.)

Back to the history of Pittsburgh, the trading post located at the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers was of obvious strategic importance on the frontier in Colonial America. Founded by William Trent, the post was overtaken by the French and renamed by the French to Fort Duquesne (“do-KANE”. Don’t ever try to pronounce it “doo-QWEZ-knee”. You will be laughed out of your trip carpool, trust me.). That was one of the justifications for the war between the French and English in British North America (Canadians know it as the “Seven Years’ War”, Americans as the “French and [redacted] War”). When the British re-took the French fort in 1758, they built a larger one and named it Fort Pitt ― after British Prime Minister Pitt The Elder.

The English, in the 1770s, briefly named the fort Fort Dunmore, but after the Declaration of Independence, the fort went back to being named Fort Pitt (in an obvious attempt to eradicate any thought of 1770s Britain. Clearly, a famous Brit of the 1750s was more palatable.)
In case you’re wondering why it has an H? This site has the history of the spelling of the name.

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  • Andrew, tonight:
    25 correct, 4 incorrect (including Final)

    Through 5 games:
    127 correct, 10 incorrect

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