Today’s Final Jeopardy – Monday, March 17, 2025

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)
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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

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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Toys & Games) for Monday, March 17, 2025 (Season 41, Game 136):

Preparing for a course on descriptive geometry & researching the 5 Platonic solids led a professor to invent this

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:

Brett Aresco, a writer & content strategist from Fairhope, Alabama

Clare Murray, an articling student from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Alex DeFrank, an inventory specialist from Brooklyn, New York (1-day total: $42,401)

Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:

Alex DeFrank enters today’s game as a 1-day champion, having won over $40,000 in Friday’s encounter. He defends his title for the first time against Alabama’s Brett Aresco and Toronto’s Clare Murray.

Across the pond, today also sees the return of the UK version; it airs at 3:00 PM GMT on ITV1 (11:00 AM EDT)

Correct response: What is the Rubik’s Cube?

More information about Final Jeopardy:

(The following write-up is original content and is copyright 2025 The Jeopardy! Fan. It may not be copied without linked attribution back to this page.)

In the 1970s, Ernő Rubik was a professor of architecture at the Budapest College of Applied Arts, teaching a course known as “descriptive geometry,” essentially challenging students to solve three-dimensional problems with two-dimensional images. Rubik’s prototype cube wasn’t originally envisioned as a puzzle, it was simply a tinkering of eight wooden cubes connected by elastic bands. He didn’t realize it was a puzzle until he had twisted it so much that the colors were all jumbled. Once the puzzle was solved (it took him a month at first), Rubik had his “spatial logic toy” patented in Hungary; when a marketer in Germany spotted it at the 1980 Nuremberg Toy Fair, a craze was born.

It should also be noted that a 2024 New York Times article marking the 50th anniversary of the Cube’s invention stated, “Mr. Rubik dates the Cube to the spring of 1974. Preparing a course on descriptive geometry and tinkering with the five Platonic solids, he had become especially taken by the cube. But, as he wrote in his 2020 memoir, “Cubed, The Puzzle of Us All,” for quite a while it “never once occurred to me that I was creating a puzzle.”” With a reference to the “five Platonic solids” coming directly from an external source, I do believe that this Final Jeopardy clue is a fair one overall; just because a clue contains what some might see as negbait to someone with incomplete knowledge of a subject doesn’t make it inherently unfair.

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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:

Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Monday, March 17, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:

Jeopardy! Round:

(Categories: Mergers & Acquisitions; “Bad” Entertainment; Also A New Wave Band; Common Bonds; It’s A Bird! It’s A Plane! It’s A Nebula!; I Said What I Said!)

Brett got off to the best start, doubling up through the Daily Double and leading after 15 clues. At the interviews, the scores were Brett $4,800 Alex $2,200 Clare $600.

Statistics at the first break (15 clues):

Brett 5 correct 0 incorrect
Alex 6 correct 1 incorrect
Clare 2 correct 1 incorrect

Today’s interviews:

Brett just celebrated his third anniversary; he proposed in a hot air balloon.
Clare has Joanna Newsom as a favorite singer.
Alex saw “The Book of Mormon”, front row center.

Alex picked up 9 correct after the break to pull close to Brett, but the Alabaman still led after 30 clues.

Statistics after the Jeopardy round:

Brett 9 correct 1 incorrect
Alex 15 correct 2 incorrect
Clare 2 correct 1 incorrect

Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:

Brett $7,000
Alex $6,600
Clare $600

Double Jeopardy! Round:

(Categories: Around The World; Instruments You Can Play; From A Teen’s Book Report; Dancing In Non-Musical Movies; It’s All Greek Alphabet To Me; Yves Dropping)

Alex and Clare found the Daily Doubles—but were both incorrect. This allowed Brett to hold the lead going into Final Jeopardy.

Statistics after Double Jeopardy:

Brett 12 correct 2 incorrect
Alex 26 correct 7 incorrect
Clare 9 correct 3 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 31 (1 today).

Scores going into Final:

Brett $9,800
Alex $8,800
Clare $2,800

Alex was the only player correct in Final Jeopardy, and that makes him a 2-day champion! He’ll be back tomorrow to go for win #3.

Tonight’s results:

Clare $2,800 – $2,800 = $0 (What is Quirkle? Love you Bill & Ron! <3)
Alex $8,800 + $5,200 = $14,000 (What is Rubik’s Cube?) (2-day total: $56,401)
Brett $9,800 – $8,000 = $1,800 (What is Tetris?)

Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:

Daily Double locations:

1) “BAD” ENTERTAINMENT $800 (clue #8)
Brett 1400 +1400 (Alex 400 Clare -400)
2) FROM A TEEN’S BOOK REPORT $2000 (clue #4)
Alex 8600 -5000 (Clare 600 Brett 5800)
3) AROUND THE WORLD $1600 (clue #12, $17600 left on board)
Clare 3400 -3400 (Alex 6000 Brett 7400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -58

Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:

J! Round:
Alex 1 1 1
Clare 3 4
Brett 3 3 4*

DJ! Round:
Alex 5 5* 5 4 4
Clare 3 3 4† 3 3 4*
Brett 3

† – selection in same category as Daily Double

Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:

Alex 3.25
Brett 3.25
Clare 3.38

Unplayed clues:

J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 30 (0.22 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles

Game Stats:

Alex $13,800 Coryat, 26 correct, 7 incorrect, 52.63% in first on buzzer (30/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Brett $9,200 Coryat, 12 correct, 2 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Clare $6,200 Coryat, 9 correct, 3 incorrect, 15.79% in first on buzzer (9/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $29,200
Lach Trash: $12,000 (on 11 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $12,800
Lead Changes: 4
Times Tied: 1

Player Statistics:

Alex DeFrank, career statistics:

52 correct, 9 incorrect
2/3 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
47.37% in first on buzzer (54/114)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,800)
2/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $17,000

Clare Murray, career statistics:

9 correct, 4 incorrect
1/2 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
15.79% in first on buzzer (9/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$3,400)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $6,200

Brett Aresco, career statistics:

12 correct, 3 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,400)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,200

Alex DeFrank, to win:

3 games: 52.303%
4: 27.356%
5: 14.308%
6: 7.484%
7: 3.914%
Avg. streak: 3.097 games.

Andy’s Thoughts:

• Rules reminder: Although I believe that Alex’s phrasing existed on every clue and might have been accidentally swallowed or cut off in editing in one case, it is a moot point as it’s a warning offense—not a penalty—in the Jeopardy! Round.
• There was a strategic thought to Alex’s wager: it ties Clare’s score if Clare makes the maximum low suggested bet below, Clare is correct, and Alex isn’t. It’s not really a bet choice I would have made, though.
• Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.

Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:

(Scores: Brett $9,800 Alex $8,800 Clare $2,800)

Alex: Limit your bet to $3,199 to keep Clare locked out. (Actual bet: $5,200)

Clare: If Brett covers and is incorrect, he falls to $1,999. Bet no more than $800. (Actual bet: $2,800)

Brett: Standard cover bet is $7,801. (Actual bet: $8,000)

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