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
Today’s contestants were 2-time champ Mike Hodel, Dylan Payne, and Carol Denny. Dylan said during his interview that he had been married ten days to a former contestant named “Meredith,” who I’ve determined from the Jeopardy! message boards is Meredith Robbins. Her episodes aired almost exactly two years ago.
I recorded today’s episode on a VCR at my parents’. After the commercial break, I accidentally fast-forwarded through some of the category names. My dad likes to give a thumbs-up or -down to each category (and I like it when he does that). I rewound so he could do that and I said something about it out loud, but my dad had picked up the newspaper while I fast-forwarded, and he was completely oblivious to the categories and to what I had said. 🙂 Oh well.
At the end of the Jeopardy round, Mike had 3400, Dylan had 6400, and Carol had 5000. Did you guys know this triple-stumper in The Hound of Music?: “Title question posed by Patti Page in a 1953 smash.”* My mom and I answered it, and my dad knew it too. My dad said that it was his favorite song when he was a kid, and my mom said it was hers, too! I guess I just guessed on it not knowing it was a real song. I guess I thought it was just an old song that everyone knows, like “The Farmer in the Dell.”
When Mike found the first Daily Double in Libraries, he had 7400, Dylan had 9600, and Carol had 13400. Mike wagered everything (!) on this clue: “Raffaele Farina, known as Bibliothecarius XLVI, is its head librarian.”* Mike got it right and so did I.
The other Daily Double was the last clue of the round. My dad had just gotten done asking if there wasn’t another Daily Double left on the board. Carol found it, in Jersey Girls. She had 14600, Mike had 20000, and Dylan had 12000. She wagered 4000 on this clue: “Governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001, she appointed the state’s first female attorney general.”* She got it right. I knew it and one of my parents did, too.
The Final Jeopardy category was Prisons. Here is the clue: “Nazi Rudolf Hess in 1941 and the notorious Kray twins in 1952 were among the last people briefly held here.”* I guessed Dachau, which I was glad to learn was the guess of at least one other person (someone on the Jeopardy! message boards), even though he said he was kind of embarrassed about the guess. The answer stumped the three contestants and the three of us watching, too. Dylan wagered everything (which I’d have done, too). Carol lost 5401. Mike lost a whopping 17300, making Carol the winner today. Do you guys think she is strong enough to win more than one game?
*”How Much is That Doggie in the Window,” the Vatican, Christine Whitman, the Tower of London