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
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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
Here’s tonight’s Final Jeopardy answer and question for Monday, January 16, 2017:
Final Jeopardy! category: 20TH CENTURY HISTORY
Final Jeopardy! clue/answer: Villages like Zalesye, Kopachi & Lubyanka remain abandoned 3 decades after this event
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Mary Caruso, a registered nurse from Cherry Hill, New Jersey
John Avila, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
Eli Nehus, an electrical engineer from Fayetteville, Arkansas (1-day total: $6,227)
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Only one of two nuclear accidents classified as Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event scale (Fukushima Daiichi in Japan in 2011 being the other), the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986 caused about a 1,000-square mile zone to be officially declared as an “Area of Absolute (Mandatory) Resettlement”. A few hundred people defied the orders and still live within the exclusion zone, but most of the villages have been abandoned. Among the resettlement included a new Lubyanka, built much closer to Kiev.
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Scores going into Final:
Eli $8,400
John $7,500
Mary $7,000
Final results:
Mary $7,000 + $6,950 = $13,950
John $7,500 + $6,501 = $14,001 (1-day total: $14,001)
Eli $8,400 – $7,000 = $1,400 (What is Rwandan genocide?)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Eli $4,800
Mary $1,400
John $700
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) IT’S THE GENEVA CONVENTION $800 (28th pick)
John 2200 -1500 (Eli 4800 Mary 1400)
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2) “C”OUNTIES $1200 (6th pick)
John 2300 +1300 (Eli 5600 Mary 2200)
3) ROOMS FULL OF CULTURE $800 (29th pick; $400 left on board, minute-to-go signal given)
John 12000 -4500 (Eli 8400 Mary 7000)
Unplayed clues:
J! round: IT’S THE GENEVA CONVENTION $600 & $1000
DJ! round: ROOMS FULL OF CULTURE $400
$ Left On Board: $2,000
Game Stats:
John $13,400 Coryat, 14 correct, 4 incorrect, 22.22% in first on buzzer
Mary $7,000 Coryat, 12 correct, 3 incorrect, 27.78% in first on buzzer
Eli $8,400 Coryat, 16 correct, 4 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer
Lach Trash: $15,000
Eli Nehus, final stats:
31 correct
9 incorrect
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/2 in Final Jeopardy
33.03% in first on buzzer (36/109)
Average Coryat: $8,900
John Avila, stats to date:
15 correct
4 incorrect
1/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$4,700)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
22.22% in first on buzzer (12/54)
Average Coryat: $13,400
John Avila, to win:
2 games: 44.91%
3: 20.17%
4: 9.06%
5: 4.07%
6: 1.83%
Avg. streak: 1.815 games.
Avg. Total Winnings (including possible ToC): $33,303
Miscellany:
This is the 15th consecutive game in which the leader going into Final Jeopardy has not gotten Final Jeopardy! correct. The record is 16.
- Purely conjecturing here, but it would not surprise me if John simply made a math error in calculating his last Daily Double wager, accidentally doubling $8,400 as $16,400 and not $16,800. A bet of $4,900 there would have been perfect.
- Thank you to Jay Johnson for providing me with a full chart of this game.