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
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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Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Brian Chu, a professor from Cary, North Carolina
Nikki Svetov, an entertainment strategist originally from Long Island, New York
Jamie Ding, a bureaucrat & law student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey (14-day total: $371,600)
Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Jamie Ding came incredibly close to winning $100,000 on yesterday’s Jeopardy!, with only an incorrect response on the game’s final clue preventing Jamie from reaching that threshold. His performances are increasingly on the level of players like Amy Schneider, Matt Amodio, James Holzhauer, and Ken Jennings, with Jamie showing that records previously thought untouchable are still absolutely within reach. Jamie’s secret right now is his impeccable buzzer timing—when he can get in over 30 times, it’s going to be a rout. Yesterday was his best game to date in terms of timing itself, per the show’s box scores—Jamie got in on an incredible 40 of his 45 attempts. Today, Jamie faces off against Nikki Svetov and Brian Chu, with a lot at stake—a win today will allow for Jamie to pass Harrison Whitaker in the Tournament of Champions tracker, crucial for Jamie’s ToC chances later, as it would just about guarantee a bye to the semifinals.
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Final Jeopardy! Category: Historic Names
Final Jeopardy! Clue: In 2025 France posthumously made this man who was “accused, humiliated & condemned” a brigadier general
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Correct response: Who is Alfred Dreyfus?
More Information About Final Jeopardy!:
As I said back in January 2020:
The Dreyfus Affair (and the related Émile Zola letterJ’Accuse!) is one ofJeopardy!‘s favorite topics to bring up in Final Jeopardy… during a bout of French antisemitism in the 1890s, Alfred Dreyfus was accused of providing military secrets to the Germans (although the actual guilty party was Major Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy.) He was found guilty of treason in a secret court-martial in 1894, stripped of his rank, and sent to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island (part of French Guiana). In order to force the evidence against Dreyfus to be made public, Zola elected to have himself accused of libel. Dreyfus eventually accepted a pardon but was not completely declared innocent by the French Army until the 1990s, even though a French civilian court set aside the treason judgment in 1906.
There’s been a current events update to the Dreyfus affair, though: in November, France finally took the step to posthumously promote Dreyfus to brigadier general.
To anyone who has watched the show regularly, this should be a slam-dunk Final Jeopardy, as it is an extremely canonical topic for the show.
Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Thursday, April 2, 2026 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: U.S. History; TV Title Pairs; Weapon Of Choice; That Was Quite A Seder; Homes; Authority Figures)
Jamie got off to a bit of a slower start, but he still led after 15 clues. At the interviews, our scores were Jamie $4,000 Brian -$400 Nikki -$800.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Jamie 7 correct 1 incorrect
Brian 2 correct 2 incorrect
Nikki 1 correct 2 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Brian was on “Pop Culture Jeopardy” last year.
Nikki let a friend bring an extremely new girlfriend as a +1 just to win a bet about the size of her wedding.
Jamie used to work for the New Jersey Leadership Collective.
Jamie got rolling in this segment; he picked up $5,000 on the Daily Double in amongst a dozen correct and took a big lead into the second break. On the opening board, he ran the seder category and went 4/5 in weapons, homes, and authority figures.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Jamie 19 correct 1 incorrect
Brian 5 correct 2 incorrect
Nikki 1 correct 2 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Jamie $15,600
Brian $400
Nikki -$800
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: International Geographic; What The Doctor Ordered; School Of Music; Past Perfect; The Silver Screen; Author Figures)
Jamie rolled through Double Jeopardy with two dozen correct responses; the only blemish—albeit a large blemish—was losing a record $21,200 on the last Daily Double. He still had a dominant runaway, though, running the Silver Screen, going 4/5 on author figures, international geographic, what the doctor ordered, and school of music, and 3/5 in words past perfect in the dictionary.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Jamie 43 correct 2 incorrect
Brian 7 correct 3 incorrect
Nikki 2 correct 2 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 11 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Jamie $31,200
Brian $2,800
Nikki $400
Jamie put an exclamation point on this one with a correct response in Final; yesterday’s miss didn’t affect him, as he made another big Final wager, bringing his total over $425,000. He goes for win #16 tomorrow!
Tonight’s results:
Nikki $400 – $0 = $400 (Who is ?)
Brian $2,800 – $267 = $2,533 (Who is Louis XVI)
Jamie $31,200 + $25,200 = $56,400 (Who was Dreyfus?) (15-day total: $428,000)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) AUTHORITY FIGURES $600 (clue #21)
Jamie 8000 +5000 (Nikki -800 Brian -400)
2) AUTHOR FIGURES $1200 (clue #15)
Jamie 30400 +11600 (Nikki 400 Brian 3200)
3) INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC $2000 (clue #24, $3600 left on board)
Jamie 48800 -21200 (Nikki 400 Brian 3200)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 57
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Jamie 4 3 2 4 5 3 5 4 3 4 5 4 5 2 3*
Nikki 5 2 1
Brian 4 3 2
DJ! Round:
Jamie 4 3 4 2 4 5 3 5 4 3 3* 1 3 5 4 5† 2 1 5 5*
Nikki 3 4
Brian 2 1
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Jamie 3.63
Brian 2.40
Nikki 3.00
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 11 (0.07 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Jamie $37,600 Coryat, 43 correct, 2 incorrect, 70.18% in first on buzzer (40/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Brian $2,800 Coryat, 7 correct, 3 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Nikki $400 Coryat, 2 correct, 2 incorrect, 5.26% in first on buzzer (3/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $40,800
Lach Trash: $7,400 (on 7 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $5,800
Lead Changes: 1
Times Tied: 4
Player Statistics:
Jamie Ding, career statistics:
483 correct, 33 incorrect
29/31 on rebound attempts (on 61 rebound opportunities)
51.70% in first on buzzer (441/853)
22/29 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $58,500)
10/15 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $26,907
Nikki Svetov, career statistics:
2 correct, 3 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
5.26% in first on buzzer (3/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $400
Brian Chu, career statistics:
7 correct, 4 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $2,800
Jamie Ding, to win:
16 games: 74.128%
17: 54.950%
18: 40.733%
19: 30.195%
20: 22.383%
Avg. streak: 17.865 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- When it comes to geographic pronunciations, I would contend that Jamie’s pronunciation of “Newfoundland” is worse than his pronunciation of “Minsk”–even moreso considering that the pronunciation on Wikipedia of Minsk does have a hint of it sounding like “Mingsk”.
- The previous record for “largest incorrect Daily Double wager” is $15,600, actually set by Alex Jacob during the All-Star Games on March 1, 2019. (Due to technical reasons surrounding the entry of the All-Star Games, J! Archive attributes that wager to the wrong player.)
- Today’s J!6 clues can be found at the monthly archive.
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