Today’s Final Jeopardy – Wednesday, November 13, 2024

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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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 today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Poetry & Places) for Wednesday, November 13, 2024 (Season 41, Game 48):

It’s the geographic word in the title of a Robert Burns poem about “the mountains …covered with snow…the straths & green valleys below”

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:

Lois Dioro, a Realtor from West Haven, Connecticut

Evan Dorey, a data analytics director from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Joey DeSena, a development engineer from Raleigh, North Carolina (2-day total: $44,698)

Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:

Joey DeSena is now a 2-day champion with winnings over $40,000. In going for victory #3 today, he faces off against Ontario’s Evan Dorey and Connecticut’s Lois Dioro.

Yesterday, on Inside Jeopardy, it was announced that the fields for Champions Wildcard and the Tournament of Champions would be unveiled. Honestly, I just hope that it’s done in a way that doesn’t make two or three weeks’ worth of games an anticlimax. I know that a lot of fans really enjoy the anticipation of “How many games will this champion win?” and this, in my opinion, certainly risks ruining that feeling for a few weeks—to the point where it might not outweigh the advantage of knowing who’s in the field at this point.

Correct response: What is Highlands?

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These lines are from Robert Burns’s 1789 poem (and song) “My Heart’s in the Highlands”; the entire stanza from the clue is “Farewell to the mountains, high-covered with snow, / Farewell to the straths and green valleys below; / Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods, / Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.”

I don’t really have much else to say about this Final; I guess a way in if you aren’t familiar already with the poem would be, “What geographical area would Robert Burns most likely want to write about?” We’ll see how today’s Final plays.

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