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.
(Click Here for Methodology)
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
One thing that I often see when keeping an eye on social media during Jeopardy! time is people asking: “Why are players allowed to be grammatically incorrect when phrasing in the form of a question on Jeopardy!?” (An example would be saying “What is John F. Kennedy?” instead of “Who is John F. Kennedy?” when responding to “This man won the 1960 Presidential election.”)
There’s a pretty good reason for that: Time.
In the introduction to “The Jeopardy! Book”, Merv Griffin writes:
During its development phase, one aspect ofJeopardy!that appealed to the network was its humor, a fact that might surprise you since, even though Alex Trebek is a bright and witty man,Jeopardy!is not known as a hotbed of comedy. What happened in our early run-throughs was the answer-question reverse led to great fun. For example, if the answer was “Island that sold for twenty-four dollars,” the contestant often came up with “Where is Manhattan?”; we’d ask for a rephrasing and get “How is Manhattan?” No. “Who is Manhattan?” It became funny, in the small office where we did the run-throughs, listening to contestants arm-wrestle the language trying to phrase the response in the form of a question. Since the networks were queasy about the quiz scandals, the idea of a humourous question-answer show appealed to them.As soon as we putJeopardy!on its legs, however, I realized it was unfair and boring to badger the contestant about being grammatically correct for every question. We were getting only twenty answers into a game, because the contestants spent their entire time trying to phrase the question correctly. We weren’t ruling them wrong, we played with them until they got it right, but that idea went out the window. The show needed to be hard-edged and fast-paced if it was to endure, and it evolved in that direction.
In terms of why the show doesn’t outright declare it a wrong answer? The British version of Jeopardy! tried that for its Channel 4 and ITV runs. (There was a British version of Jeopardy!, you ask? That might explain how well that change went over.) Even the British found it silly, and by the time the show ended up on Sky 1, the “American” rule was in effect.
So, there you have it. That would be why as long as you phrase your response in the form of a question, it need not matter whether or not you use the proper question.
In that British version they also made it where you only knew your own score (and not the other contestants’) – which would render Keith Williams’s site irrelevant (unless you had such a good memory that you could keep track of all three scores).