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
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
Here’s tonight’s Final Jeopardy answer and question for Monday, March 27, 2017:
Final Jeopardy! category: SCIENTISTS
Final Jeopardy! clue/answer: This European’s 1751 “Philosophia Botanica” gave rules of nomenclature & said don’t change generic names
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Meral Cultu, a nonprofit strategist from Cleveland, Ohio
Adam Vesterholt, an energy engineer from Brooklyn, New York
Robert Weibezahl, a writer from Westlake Village, California (1-day total: $11,000)
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Carl Linnaeus (Carolus Linnaeus) was a Swedish botanist who created a uniform system of naming natural organisms (binomial nomenclature), using genera and species (and creating principles upon which to frame those definitions.)
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Scores going into Final:
Adam $13,401
Robert $13,400
Meral $11,800
Final results:
Meral $11,800 + $1,602 = $13,402 (Who is Charles Linnaeus?†)
Robert $13,400 – $1,600 = $11,800 (Who is Boyle)
Adam $13,401 + $13,400 = $26,801 (1-day total: $26,801)
†(Meral’s response of “Who is Charles Linnaeus?” was accepted by the judges because “Charles” is an Anglicized form of the Swedish “Carl”/Latin “Carolus”).
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Adam $7,200
Robert $6,600
Meral $3,000
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) OH MY GODS! $600 (15th pick)
Adam 3400 +2400 (Robert 2000 Meral 1200)
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2) THE SOUTHWEST $800 (19th pick)
Adam 9600 +3600 (Robert 11800 Meral 8200)
3) CONSERVATIVE BOOKSHELF $1600 (29th pick, $2,000 left on board)
Adam 12000 +1401 (Robert 13400 Meral 11800)
Unplayed clues:
J! round: THE BUSY BUSINESSMAN $1000
DJ! round: None!
$ Left on Board: $1,000
Game Stats:
Adam $9,000 Coryat, 19 correct, 6 incorrect, 37.50% in first on buzzer
Meral $11,800 Coryat, 13 correct, 0 incorrect, 23.21% in first on buzzer
Robert $13,400 Coryat, 19 correct, 1 incorrect, 28.57% in first on buzzer
Lach Trash: $11,800
Coryat lost to incorrect responses: $7,000
Robert Weibezahl, final stats:
36 correct
6 incorrect
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,000)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
30.09% in first on buzzer (34/113)
Average Coryat: $11,000
Adam Vesterholt, stats to date:
20 correct
6 incorrect
3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,401)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
37.50% in first on buzzer (21/56)
Average Coryat: $9,000
Adam Vesterholt, to win:
2 games: 29.50%
3: 8.70%
4: 2.57%
5: 0.76%
6: 0.22%
Avg. streak: 1.418 games.
Avg. Total Winnings (including possible ToC): $36,966
With a projected 79 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 250,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 2.8822 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.313).
An average of 4.4643 4+-time champions (standard deviation 1.594).
An early cutoff took place 10.705% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
Tim Kutz qualified 67.085% of the time.
Todd Giese qualified 24.874% of the time.
Rob Liguori qualified 5.466% of the time.
Fred Vaughn qualified 0.897% of the time.
Miscellany:
- Thank you to Jay Johnson for providing me with a full chart of this game.
The most recent regular-play game with a $1 difference between 1st and 2nd after Double Jeopardy: January 27, 2012.
Adam is the first player to find all three Daily Doubles in the same game since Leanne Vincent on February 28, and the first player to get all 3 correct in regular play since Lisa Schlitt on February 2.