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
Lately, every time I sit down to watch a movie and don’t do something else at the same time (okay, a crossword puzzle!), I wish I’d do it more often. I find it hard to do sometimes. I keep thinking I should be doing something else when I watch a movie (at the same time or otherwise).
I just got done with No Country for Old Men. I have to admit I did not finish the book. I felt like I couldn’t get into it and didn’t want to spend any more time on it when I had other books hanging around.
For a book I thought I couldn’t get into, I was surprised how much I retained as I watched the movie, which, by the way, was better than the book. Maybe I should’ve watched it before reading it. I’d heard the movie was violent but violence in movies seldom bothers me, especially gun violence, which was the principal form here.
I’d been curious who was going to play Llewellyn’s wife, but I didn’t know her when she appeared (Kelly Macdonald). (And speaking of Llewellyn, he was played by Josh Brolin, who was in the last movie I wrote about!) I looked Macdonald up on imdb. She of course has a Texas accent in the movie, but she was born in Scotland! I did notice at the very first thing she said that her accent wasn’t very good. She has a long list of credits, but I think the only thing of hers I’ve seen is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. For that matter, I’m not sure I’ve seen Brolin in anything else, before True Grit! I don’t see his name in the credits for There Will Be Blood. 😉
What was that weird weapon Javier Bardem uses? The one that blows the locks out of doors and the thing he nailed that guy in the forehead with, early on. I think Tommy Lee Jones said there was no bullet in it, if that thing is what he was talking about when he met with Llewellyn’s wife. I did learn what a “transponder” is!
I was surprised Llewellyn died. I really didn’t think he would. Can we assume that Bardem shot Llewellyn’s wife, too, when he asked her if she could see him? (I already took the book back to the library!)
What a weird ending to the movie! I’m not sure of the point. Whatever came of Bardem, after he walked away from that car accident?
The next thing I’m reading is Oil! by Upton Sinclair. I have 200+ pages left but it’s looking like I’m gonna finish it. It’s much better than the McCarthy book. The library doesn’t have There Will Be Blood. Lucky for me, it’s gonna be on AMC this Friday. Vamos!
I’ve been thinking that, while I think this project is productive, I might not keep blogging about it. (But as always I’d like to know how you feel, in a comment.) There are blogs devoted to this kind of thing, and it doesn’t relate as well to Jeopardy! now that I’m already going to be on (March 28th!) Plus, there are plenty of quadruple-stumpers to cover the nights I can’t blog about that day’s episode.The next thing I will read, if that makes a difference to you, is Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team by George Jonas. This depends on whether I can find a copy of it, because my library’s being remodeled and the book is in a “storage area.” The 2005 movie Munich was based on this book. I went to Munich last summer and was lucky to strollthrough the grounds of those 1972 Olympics. My little sister and dad took these pics:
Now on the big bummer front: I have to miss the Oscars this year, which neeeevvvver happens. (And Billy Crystal is back!) It’s my weekend to work, and I don’t want my co-workers to run when they see me coming because I ask them to trade with me so often.
Some recent Coryats:
originally 9-16-05: 15200
(When I practiced this episode before I was gonna be on the show, my score was 11200.)
originally 12-20-05: 13000
originally 12-21-05: 14200
I don’t expect to watch the next two GSN episodes, as I don’t want to watch David Madden lose and I don’t want to see the woman who beat him play the next day!