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
Bet you thought you’d gotten rid of me, eh? OK, maybe you didn’t think that. Anyhow, I’ve been woefully behind on Jeopardy! viewing this past week (as in, I hadn’t been able to see any of the episodes since Monday, even though I’ve found a reliable place where they can be found, and that’s all I’ll say about that here), but today I decided to bite the bullet and at least look at the Archive for how last week’s games went…except for Friday, which I decided to watch in its entirety because Jessica, one of the contestants, is a member of the Jeopardy! board, and I wanted to see how she did. (I actually kind of found out how she did when checking the Archive, since I saw the player lists for Monday and Tuesday. Oh well.)
To streamline this recap, and because it’s late and I mostly just scribbled random thoughts and stats (OK, mostly thoughts) about the episode down as I went (I didn’t pause and keep record of each clue like I did for Monday’s game), I’m going to break down and resort to bullets. (A time-starved blogger’s best friend. :)) Here we go…
The three contestants (thank you, J! Archive!) were our returning champ Justin Sausville (whose 6-day cash winnings total $134,000, Amit Kurlekar, an attorney from Oakland, CA, and aforementioned J! boardie Jessica Burr, a book editor (and as we found out in the interviews, page turner for chamber music concerts, which I think is way cool) from Bloomfield, NJ.
- I went 4/5 in Presidential Inaugurations…even though I could sense a little inflection in Alex’s voice for the JFK clue (I wonder if it was intentional?), I just couldn’t place it in time, nor was the clue giving me a huge amount of help. Ronald Reagan was a pretty easy get for the Daily Double, though…you can’t really forget a program dubbed “Star Wars” that easily.
The Playoffs category was brutal for me, but then the writers threw me a bone and had a clue about BYU for $800 (Go Cougars!) and then a clue about TCU for $1000, which I normally wouldn’t have known, but got fairly easily because we played them my freshman year, and I was at the game, and we lost and it was heartbreaking. Sniffle.
I was happy to see a clue in the J! round about Branson, because I have a good friend that currently works there right now, and is actually the sound engineer for the Cat’s Pajamas, an a cappella group that recently competed on “The Sing-Off.” (And now, a break for our sponsors: Actually, this is just me quietly plugging my recaps of the show on my WordPress blog. Ahem. :))
I have quite honestly never heard of Virginia Apgar (the response to the first DD in the Double Jeopardy! round). Then again, I haven’t had children, so I guess I have some sort of excuse. (It would be rather disturbing if I did have children, given my age, gender, and circumstances.)
- In a strange turn of events, I was about to pull out the name of Gardasil, the HPV vaccine, but was unable to remember the name of Boo Radley, the character from “To Kill A Mockingbird,” despite the fact that we read that book in high school and I loved it, and I have very little attachment to the aforementioned vaccine. (Guess seeing the commercials for it all the time helped?)
- The second DD in the DJ! round was about Kurt Vonnegut. It mentioned “several cleverly ironic sci-fi novels,” which threw me off since I wasn’t quite aware Vonnegut had written in the genre. My guess was Douglas Adams (of “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” fame), and Justin’s was Orson Scott Card.
- I swept the Oscar category except for the middle clue (about “Rain Man,” which I’ll probably end up seeing someday, seeing as it’s, y’know, a classic or something), and I was glad they finished it, since Justin went to Paint In Oils with little time to spare, and I was afraid it would be a casualty. (I actually did surprisingly OK in that category. It may have been some knowledge from studying Art in AcDec years ago that somehow stuck with me, perhaps?)
- Just so this doesn’t turn into Brandon’s Storytelling Hour, the scores at the end of the DJ! round were Justin at $8400, Amit at $11400, and Jessica in the lead at $13000.
- The category for Final was American Business. The clue, in its entirety (once again, props to the Archive): “In the 1880s he developed Crystal A Caramels; a product under his own name came out in 1900” Jessica and I both said Werther. (I was holding out for the vain hope that he was somehow American.) Justin went with Russell Stover (which I thought was a good guess), and Amit got the correct response…Hershey. The caramels thing was huge neg-bait, I think. It really threw me off…who knew Hershey made caramels?
- Justin ended up grabbing 2nd place with $3799, Amit won with a score of $16801, and Jessica ended up with a score of $2399.
And there you have it. To close as always, the Coryats (it’s only my second time keeping my score that way…the results were much better for me today):
9-23-11: Justin $12000 Amit $11800 Jessica $12200 Me $15200
I should be back here soon with a post about Tuesday’s game (which I’ll be watching in full, once again to root for a boardie). Sorry I disappeared for so long!