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
Today’s contestants:
John McKay, the assistant secretary of the Colorado Senate, from Lakewood, CO
Heidi Eichler, a high school science teacher from Morton Grove, IL
Buzzy Cohen, a music executive from Los Angeles, CA (5-day total: $101,402)
Scores going into Final Jeopardy:
Buzzy $19,800
Heidi $8,200
John $3,800
Final Jeopardy! category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY
Final Jeopardy! clue: Of the 8 states that touch the Great Lakes, it’s the smallest in area
What is Indiana? (John said Ohio; Heidi New York; and Buzzy: “See you tomorrow, Trebek!”)
John 3800 – 1200 = 2600
Heidi 8200 – 200 = 8000
Buzzy 19800 – 0 = 19800 (6-day total: $121,202)
One of the categories in Double Jeopardy today was THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO “HM”. I’ll say this much: this Final certainly did! It obviously makes sense, but for someone who doesn’t know the states in order by area cold, this was not an easy Final Jeopardy!
Anyway, here are the 8, in order of area:
- Michigan (96,713.51 square miles)
- Minnesota (86,935.83)
- Wisconsin (65,496.38)
- Illinois (57,913.55)
- New York (54,554.98)
- Pennsylvania (46,054.35)
- Ohio (44,825.58)
- Indiana (36,419.55)
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Wow…Buzzy still has some fightback after staying away for 3 weeks, which I have to say, impresses me. Normally, when a champ stays away for so long, they would seem dethroned by a challenger. These recent examples did occur in the 2010s that a champ has been dethroned for a while: Tara Anderson, Winston Nguyen,John Anneken,Joshua Brakhage, Alison Parakh, Jacob Silverman, and Kate Rowland. They’ve been away for a while and got dethroned within the time they were champs.
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Given how crazy the DC taping was, it’s possible that there was almost no layoff for Buzzy.
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There was no layoff at all: today’s game was taped the day after Buzzy’s first five. It was a two-day block (Monday/Tuesday) and I was there for the first, obviously. Heidi did not get selected to play on the first day and was held over to the second.
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