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Season 26

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Current Champion

Matthew Riggle, career statistics:
47 correct, 6 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
41.23% in first on buzzer (47/114)
3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,600)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $21,300

To win:
3 games: 68.027%
4: 46.277%
5: 31.481%
6: 21.415%
7: 14.568%
Avg. streak: 4.128 games.
(Next game: September 14)
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Jeopardy! Masters Standings

(Quarterfinal Final Standings)

1) Victoria Groce, 15 points, 5 wins, 172 correct responses, $126,000 Coryat Score, $121,000 earned before Final Jeopardy
2) Yogesh Raut, 12 points, 3 wins, 106 correct responses, $69,000 Coryat Score, $69,800 earned before Final Jeopardy
3) Paolo Pasco, 8 points, 1 win, 94 correct responses, $62,400 Coryat Score, $71,400 earned before Final Jeopardy
4) Andrew He, 5 points, 1 win, 89 correct responses, $53,000 Coryat Score, $50,400 earned before Final Jeopardy
5) Long Nguyen, 5 points, 1 win, 68 correct responses, $40,200 Coryat Score, $45,200 earned before Final Jeopardy
6) Juveria Zaheer, 3 points, 1 win, 86 correct responses, $60,600 Coryat Score, $68,400 earned before Final Jeopardy

Upcoming Encore Presentations

September 3: S42 E114 (February 12, 2026)
September 4: S42 E115 (February 13, 2026)
September 5-6: S41 E144 (March 27, 2025)
September 7: S42 E116 (February 16, 2026)
September 8: S42 E117 (February 17, 2026)
September 9: S42 E118 (February 18, 2026)
September 10: S42 E119 (February 19, 2026)
September 11: S42 E120 (February 20, 2026)
September 12-13: S41 E145 (March 28, 2025)
September 19-20: S42 E173 (May 6, 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 $1,098,403
7. Mattea Roach $897,983
8. Jamie Ding $885,605
9. David Madden $785,733
10. Victoria Groce $773,801
11. Cris Pannullo $754,286
12. Roger Craig $706,200
13. Larissa Kelly $671,930
14. Matt Jackson $623,612
15. Jason Zuffranieri $549,496
16. Andrew He $534,365
17. Scott Riccardi $533,000
18. Jerome Vered $499,102
19. Julia Collins $495,767
20. Austin Rogers $493,000
21. Juveria Zaheer $491,000
22. Ben Ingram $449,201
23. Paolo Pasco $448,717
24. Adriana Harmeyer $446,600
25. Buzzy Cohen $441,603

After watching today’s Game Show Network episode of Jeopardy!, I think that unanswered clues are more common than I thought they were. I counted 11 (not counting Daily Doubles). I will give them to you one more time, except for the two that required a visual aid. (I will count them in the future, though, just because I’m curious.)
$600 in Musical Before and After: “Reggae widow who appears to Scrooge”* (Okay, there’s one name associated with reggae. But really, do they expect us to know his WIFE’S name?)
$400 in Eagle-Eyed: “The symbol of this youth organization is an eagle super-imposed on a stylized iris.”
$1000 in Eagle-Eyed: “This constellation that features the star Altair is in the shape of an eagle with a considerable wingspan.”
$1000 in Musical Before and After: “5-Star general who rocked out the South with ‘Fire on the Mountain.'”
$1600 in “Com”: “Controversial 1969 Philip Roth novel that was made into a 1972 film.”
$2000 in Sandra Bullock Movies: “Geeky research scientist Diane Farrow.”
$2000 in Dot: “Connect the Dots: the British author of ‘Pilgrimage’ or a two-time U.S. Olympic gold medalist softball player.”
$2000 in Scientists: “This great experimenter also gave lectures to London kids; In 1860, he showed them combustion requires air.”
$2000 in Onward to Ontario: “The War of 1812 Battle of Moraviantown in Canada was also known as the Battle of this Ontario river.”
At the end of the Jeopardy round, Mark Barrett and Will Hester had $4800, and Elizabeth Randisi had $1200. Elizabeth was silent for a while during Double Jeopardy, then nailed a Daily Double and moved into the lead with her $2500 wager: Flags: “When there was just one of this country, Emperor Kojang chose white as the flag’s background color.” All three contestants got Final Jeopardy wrong, but Elizabeth held on to her lead to win the game: The Nobel Prizes: “For the first time in its history, the Nobel Prize for Literature was not awarded in this year.” Clues like these raise more questions for me than they answer. I wonder if in future entries I should explore such clues in order to gain some understanding….
I played a few episodes of Jeopardy! that I had saved on my DVR. The scores are below. (Leave it to David Madden to make a person feel inadequate!)

Danelle Johnson, UT 4600
Eugene Manning, HI 10000
Celeste DiNucci, PA 0
Me 10798

Brad Jeffcoat, GA 15200
Reda Chambers, AZ 15600
Eugene Manning, HI 16400
Me 25602

Willy Jay, MD 2799
Catie Camille, NY 8800
David Madden, NJ 21400
Me 2800

*Rita Marley’s ghost, the Boy Scouts of America, Aquila, the George Marshall Tucker Band, Portnoy’s Complaint, Love Potion #9, Dot Richardson, Michael Faraday, the Thames, Korea, 1914

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