--- title: "Final Jeopardy today: Stefanie Landeweer tops three-day champ Shannon Leigh Godwin with $19,400" description: "A chemistry professor from Maryland answered correctly in the CURRENT TV STREAKS category and ended a three-day run, while the leader going into Final…" url: https://tv-movies.skoop.news/stefanie-landeweer-defeats-shannon-godwin-on-jeopardy-final---10-29/ published: 2026-10-29T08:12:01.707954-04:00 modified: 2026-10-29T08:12:01.707980-04:00 section: "TV & Movies" publisher: "skoop.news" language: en keywords: ["final jeopardy today", "Final Jeopardy", "Harshish Chitkara of Superior", "Polly Bethea of Athens", "CURRENT TV STREAKS", "Shannon Leigh Godwin", "Anthony Cantor", "California", "Colorado", "Hulu"] hashtags: ["#FinalJeopardy", "#HarshishChitkaraOfSuperior", "#PollyBetheaOfAthens", "#Episode", "#movieclips"] image: https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Shchors_movie_theater_in_Chernihiv_01.jpg/1280px-Shchors_movie_theater_in_Chernihiv_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail --- # Final Jeopardy today: Stefanie Landeweer tops three-day champ Shannon Leigh Godwin with $19,400 > A chemistry professor from Maryland answered correctly in the CURRENT TV STREAKS category and ended a three-day run, while the leader going into Final Jeopardy missed. Published 2026-10-29 · Updated 2026-10-29 · TV & Movies, [skoop.news](https://skoop.news/) ## In brief - Shannon Leigh Godwin, an interior designer from Oakland, California, arrived on October 28 as a three-day champion and left in third place [[1]](https://parade.com/tv/who-won-jeopardy-today-october-28-2026-plus-the-final-jeopardy-answer). - The category on October 28 was CURRENT TV STREAKS [[1]](https://parade.com/tv/who-won-jeopardy-today-october-28-2026-plus-the-final-jeopardy-answer). - Murphy led going into Final Jeopardy with $19,200 [[1]](https://parade.com/tv/who-won-jeopardy-today-october-28-2026-plus-the-final-jeopardy-answer). ## A three-day streak ends at $19,400 Shannon Leigh Godwin, an interior designer from Oakland, California, arrived on October 28 as a three-day champion and left in third place [[1]](https://parade.com/tv/who-won-jeopardy-today-october-28-2026-plus-the-final-jeopardy-answer). Stefanie Landeweer won the episode with a total of $19,400 [[1]](https://parade.com/tv/who-won-jeopardy-today-october-28-2026-plus-the-final-jeopardy-answer). If you searched for the Final Jeopardy result today, that is the headline. Landeweer is a chemistry professor from Lexington Park, Maryland [[1]](https://parade.com/tv/who-won-jeopardy-today-october-28-2026-plus-the-final-jeopardy-answer). The third contestant was Spencer Murphy, an endocrinologist from Menlo Park, California [[1]](https://parade.com/tv/who-won-jeopardy-today-october-28-2026-plus-the-final-jeopardy-answer). ## The Final Jeopardy clue The category on October 28 was CURRENT TV STREAKS [[1]](https://parade.com/tv/who-won-jeopardy-today-october-28-2026-plus-the-final-jeopardy-answer). The clue described the longest-tenured male actor on a primetime show, who released the album Home Invasion in 1993 [[1]](https://parade.com/tv/who-won-jeopardy-today-october-28-2026-plus-the-final-jeopardy-answer). The correct response was Ice-T [[1]](https://parade.com/tv/who-won-jeopardy-today-october-28-2026-plus-the-final-jeopardy-answer). ## How the wagers played out Murphy led going into Final Jeopardy with $19,200 [[1]](https://parade.com/tv/who-won-jeopardy-today-october-28-2026-plus-the-final-jeopardy-answer). Landeweer had $13,000 and Godwin had $5,600 [[1]](https://parade.com/tv/who-won-jeopardy-today-october-28-2026-plus-the-final-jeopardy-answer). Murphy answered incorrectly and lost his $7,601 wager, which dropped him to second place with $11,599 [[1]](https://parade.com/tv/who-won-jeopardy-today-october-28-2026-plus-the-final-jeopardy-answer). Landeweer answered correctly and added a $6,000 wager for her winning $19,400 [[1]](https://parade.com/tv/who-won-jeopardy-today-october-28-2026-plus-the-final-jeopardy-answer). Godwin also answered correctly, adding a $5,000 wager, but finished third with $10,600 [[1]](https://parade.com/tv/who-won-jeopardy-today-october-28-2026-plus-the-final-jeopardy-answer). ## How Godwin got here Godwin returned for her second game on October 26 with a one-day total of $16,001, after defeating four-game champion Anthony Cantor earlier in the week [[2]](https://www.tvinsider.com/1299953/jeopardy-shannon-leigh-godwin-game-two-win/). She became a two-day champion that day with a total of $25,602 [[2]](https://www.tvinsider.com/1299953/jeopardy-shannon-leigh-godwin-game-two-win/). She did it despite a miss on a Daily Double, where she wagered $3,000 of a possible $3,200 and still kept the lead [[2]](https://www.tvinsider.com/1299953/jeopardy-shannon-leigh-godwin-game-two-win/). She came into her third game on October 27 with that two-day total of $25,602 [[3]](https://www.tvinsider.com/1300202/jeopardy-shannon-leigh-godwin-game-three-win/). Her opponents were Polly Bethea of Athens, Texas, and Harshish Chitkara of Superior, Colorado [[3]](https://www.tvinsider.com/1300202/jeopardy-shannon-leigh-godwin-game-three-win/). ## The October 27 game Godwin won the October 27 game in a runaway and reached a three-day total of $40,602 [[3]](https://www.tvinsider.com/1300202/jeopardy-shannon-leigh-godwin-game-three-win/). The Final Jeopardy correct response that day was Jack Ruby [[3]](https://www.tvinsider.com/1300202/jeopardy-shannon-leigh-godwin-game-three-win/). Godwin wagered $2,600 and ended the game with $15,000 [[3]](https://www.tvinsider.com/1300202/jeopardy-shannon-leigh-godwin-game-three-win/). Bethea wagered $2,008 and finished with $4,608, while Chitkara did not qualify for Final Jeopardy [[3]](https://www.tvinsider.com/1300202/jeopardy-shannon-leigh-godwin-game-three-win/). Godwin had been scheduled to return on Wednesday, October 28, for her fourth game [[3]](https://www.tvinsider.com/1300202/jeopardy-shannon-leigh-godwin-game-three-win/). That game became the one Landeweer won [[1]](https://parade.com/tv/who-won-jeopardy-today-october-28-2026-plus-the-final-jeopardy-answer). ## What to watch next Landeweer will return on Thursday for her second game [[1]](https://parade.com/tv/who-won-jeopardy-today-october-28-2026-plus-the-final-jeopardy-answer). Jeopardy! comes back on Thursday, October 29, 2026, with a new episode [[1]](https://parade.com/tv/who-won-jeopardy-today-october-28-2026-plus-the-final-jeopardy-answer). If you miss the broadcast, Jeopardy! is available on Hulu and Peacock, and subscribers can watch new episodes the next day [[1]](https://parade.com/tv/who-won-jeopardy-today-october-28-2026-plus-the-final-jeopardy-answer). The modern version of the show debuted in 1984 and is hosted under the eye of Ken Jennings, a record-breaking champion [[1]](https://parade.com/tv/who-won-jeopardy-today-october-28-2026-plus-the-final-jeopardy-answer). ## Sources 1. [Stefanie Landeweer Defeats Shannon Godwin on Jeopardy!: Final Jeopardy Answer Revealed (October 28, 2026)](https://parade.com/tv/who-won-jeopardy-today-october-28-2026-plus-the-final-jeopardy-answer) — parade.com 2. [‘Jeopardy!’: Tense Game Decided on Nobel Prize Question](https://www.tvinsider.com/1299953/jeopardy-shannon-leigh-godwin-game-two-win/) — tvinsider.com 3. ['Jeopardy!' Contestant Has Runaway: Did Champ Shannon Leigh Godwin Win?](https://www.tvinsider.com/1300202/jeopardy-shannon-leigh-godwin-game-three-win/) — tvinsider.com Image: Photo (illustrative): Dmytro Petishkin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shchors_movie_theater_in_Chernihiv_01.jpg) --- Written from the sources above and checked twice (rules and an independent model) before publishing. How we work: https://skoop.news/how-we-work/ · Corrections: https://skoop.news/corrections/