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Season 32

Quick Recap & Today’s Final Jeopardy – May 27, 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

Today’s contestants:

Megan Hauser, an editor and stay-at-home parent from Chicago, IL

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Erin Delaney, an English professor from North Hills, CA

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Buzzy Cohen, a music executive from Los Angeles, CA (9-day total: $164,603)

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Scores going into Final Jeopardy:
Erin $16,400
Buzzy $12,200
Megan $7,200

Final Jeopardy! category: 19TH CENTURY NOVELS

Final Jeopardy! clue: The Gold Bug, Edgar Allan Poe’s story about the search for Captain Kidd’s buried loot, helped inspire this 1883 novel

What is “Treasure Island”?


Megan 7200 + 7000 = 14200 Buzzy 12200 + 8000 = 20200 Erin 16400 + 8001 = 24401

This week’s Poll of the Week contains cute dogs. Go vote!

From the introduction to an edition of “Treasure Island”:

In “My First Book”, RLS was more forthcoming about the specific, rather than the inspirational, sources of his book. The precise source materials, he wrote, were “a few reminiscences of Poe, Defoe, and Washington Irving, and a copy of Johnson’s “Buccaneers”. Once again, he reveals his appreciation for American romance writers – here, Poe and Irving – with whom RLS had a strong affinity. From Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold Bug”, a story based on the legendary buried treasure of Captain Kidd, RLS claims to have found Flint’s skeleton pointer. In Poe’s story, the treasure of gold coins and jewels is located, in part, by dropping a string weighted with a beetle through the eye socket of a skull.

I’m disappointed that Buzzy lost today.

All-Time Wins List:

  1. Ken Jennings (74 wins, $2,520,700)
  2. Julia Collins (20 wins, $428,100)
  3. David Madden (19 wins, $430,400)
  4. Matt Jackson (13 wins, $411,612)
  5. Arthur Chu (11 wins, $297,200)
  6. Jason Keller (9 wins, $213,900)
  7. Dan Pawson (9 wins, $170,902)
  8. Buzzy Cohen (9 wins, $164,603)

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  • May 27 stats:
    Erin 16,200 Coryat, 17 right, 2 wrong, 30.36% in first on buzzer
    Buzzy 9,400 Coryat, 15 right, 2 wrong, 28.57% in first on buzzer
    Megan 9,200 Coryat, 15 right, 2 wrong, 26.79% in first on buzzer
    11 Triple Stumpers

    Buzzy Cohen, through 10 games:
    205 correct
    36 incorrect
    13/18 on Daily Doubles
    6/10 in Final Jeopardy
    In First on Buzzer: 36.53% (202/553)
    Average Coryat Score: $14,100


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