Today’s Final Jeopardy – Monday, July 6, 2026

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

September 26-27: S42 E174 (May 7, 2026)
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 today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Building Projects) for Monday, July 6, 2026 (Season 42, Game 216):

An unofficial “race” between Japanese & Korean firms led to the construction of these, well southwest of both nations

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:

Lee Ann McGuire Whitlock, an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia

Owen Harrington, a union organizer & Ph.D. candidate from Chicago, Illinois

Caleb Groen, a law & policy student originally from Thousand Oaks, California (2-day total: $31,199)

Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:

Welcome to another week of Jeopardy! play as we near the end of Season 42 (we only have three weeks left!) This week sees Caleb Groen return as a 2-day champion, facing off against Owen Harrington of Chicago and Lee Ann McGuire Whitlock of North Vancouver, British Columbia. If you recognize the name Whitlock, you’d be correct in assuming a relation—Lee Ann is married to 1996 College champion and 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament alumnus Shane Whitlock.

I should mention that for a multitude of different reasons, the “look and feel” of The Jeopardy! Fan will be changing come August, as the website is moving away from WordPress to a different “content management system”. We’re going to do our best to at least maintain some of the same design elements with the changeover (for example, the fonts won’t be changing), but I would expect to see some changes in August.

Correct response: What are the Petronas Towers?

More information about Final Jeopardy:

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In order to build the Petronas Towers quickly in the 1990s, Malaysia took the particularly unusual step of commissioning two different companies to build the twin towers: one Korean (Samsung C&T) and one Japanese (Hazama Corporation). Ostensibly, this allowed construction to proceed simultaneously, but it also provided for a competition for national pride between the two companies, with the Koreans getting the right to build the skybridge between the towers for having finished slightly ahead of the Japanese. The building served as the world’s tallest building between 1998 and 2004 (when it was surpassed by the Burj Khalifa).

This is one of those “Today I learned” Final Jeopardy! clues; I never realized that the two towers were built in this way. For that reason, I enjoyed today’s Final Jeopardy clue.

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Game Recap:

This game belonged entirely to Caleb, who picked up $13,000 from the two Daily Doubles in Double Jeopardy and cruised to an incredibly dominant runaway victory today.

Final Jeopardy saw both remaining players give incorrect responses, as Caleb lost $20,000. He’s still a 3-day champion, though, and will go for win #4 tomorrow.

Scores going into Final:

Caleb $38,800
Owen $1,400
Lee Ann -$2,400

Tonight’s results:

Lee Ann -$2,400 (By rule, did not participate in Final Jeopardy)
Owen $1,400 – $2 = $1,398 (What are building projects)
Caleb $38,800 – $20,000 = $18,800 (What is… Islands?) (3-day total: $49,999)

Game Stats:

Caleb $28,200 Coryat, 32 correct, 1 incorrect, 49.12% in first on buzzer (28/57), 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
Owen $2,400 Coryat, 15 correct, 6 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 3/4 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Lee Ann -$2,400 Coryat, 3 correct, 4 incorrect, 12.28% in first on buzzer (7/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $28,200

If you are looking for more detailed statistics about today’s game of Jeopardy!, as well as the ability to leave a comment, make sure to check out the Daily Details section.

Caleb Groen, to win:

4 games: 76.548%
5: 58.596%
6: 44.854%
7: 34.335%
8: 26.283%
Avg. streak: 6.264 games.

Andy’s Thoughts:

• If the show makes a last-minute category change to Final Jeopardy, they really need to update the underlying database, as well as Clue of the Day.
• Just to prove that we’re not all the same north of the border, I dislike the fact that the show did not add “Canada” after Lee Ann’s geographical introduction, and I don’t think the show should have made the change.
• Today’s J!6 clues can be found at the monthly archive.

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