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:
Mark Adams, a health benefits advisor from Johnstown, PA
Peggy Szymeczek, a retired Civil Servant from Gilbert, AZ
Hunter Appler, an attorney from Mount Airy, NC (1-day total: $24,801)
Hunter’s going to be joining us on the next #JeopardyLivePanel episode, currently scheduled for Monday, June 13th at 8:00 PM Eastern.
Scores going into Final Jeopardy:
Hunter $20,000
Mark $9,200
Peggy $4,400
Final Jeopardy! category: 19TH CENTURY NONFICTION
Final Jeopardy! clue: A 2014 bestseller, in 1853 it was called “more extraordinary” than “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” because “it is only a simple unvarnished tale”
What is Twelve Years A Slave? (Incorrect responses to Final Jeopardy, if any, and final game stats, will be found in the comments section.)
Peggy 4400 – 2200 = 2200
Mark 9200 – 42 = 9158
Hunter 20000 – 200 = 19800 (2-day total: $44,601)
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Of course, it was a 2014 bestseller because of the Best Picture Oscar win of the movie that it was based upon.
From the Publisher’s Advertisement for this book in The Liberator 26 Aug. 1853:
Next to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the extraordinary Narrative of Solomon Northup is the most remarkable book that was ever issued from the American press. Indeed, it is a more extraordinary work than that, because it is only a simple unvarnished tale of the experience of an American freeman of the “blessings” of slavery, while Mrs. Stowe’s Uncle Tom is only a powerfully wrought novel, intended to illustrate what Solomon saw and experienced, Southern Slavery in its various phases.—Detroit Trib.
Another review:
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Incorrect responses to Final:
Peggy: no response
Mark: Tom Sawyer
Hunter: Quincy Winston
Game Stats:
Hunter: 19,200 Coryat, 28 correct, 1 incorrect, 47.27% in first on buzzer
Mark: 5,800 Coryat, 11 correct, 4 incorrect, 20.00% in first on buzzer
Peggy: 3,200 Coryat, 11 correct, 8 incorrect, 25.45% in first on buzzer
Hunter Appler, to date: (2 games)
51 correct
6 incorrect
3/3 on Daily Doubles
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
44.64% in first on buzzer (50/112)
Average Coryat: $16,900
Hunter Appler, to win:
3 games: 60.46%
4: 36.55%
5: 22.10%
6: 13.36%
7: 8.08%
Avg. streak: 3.529 games.
The volume cannot fail to gain a wide circulation. It will be read extensively, both at the North and South. No one can contemplate the scenes which are here so naturally set forth, without a new conviction of the hideousness of the institution from which the subject of the narrative has happily escaped.—N.Y. Tribune
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