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
Part two of my interview with Stefan Goodreau…
I had to ask Stefan more about the famous O’Brien’s, where I first met him in person when I was in Los Angeles for Jeopardy! By the way, if you are in town to tape the show, this is a must-do. It’s a dream for a Jeopardy! fan, with champs playing like Jerome Vered and Cliff Galiher (who looked happy that I recognized him). Plus, everyone there will encourage you and share your delight that you are going to be on the show, and they’ll go out of their way to make sure you meet every former J! champ there. Stefan says, “Occasionally a newbie or two will show up, and a regular will help them find space.” My sister tapped a guy on the shoulder who looked like he had just two on his team. Turns out it was former contestant Marty Butterick. He mentioned he lost his episode in the Final. I realized later he’d lost to ToCer Justin Sausville, and I’d blogged about his episode! Marty watched his episode at O’Brien’s when it aired.
O’Brien’s tweets a picture each week of the winning team, but the week I was there the camera failed. I told Stefan he always seems to be in the tweeted picture, and I asked him if he studies for the quiz. He said, “I don’t study for it. I’d rather not take it too seriously. And I more readily credit the company I keep for my frequent appearances there.” When I said I didn’t know how the players know the answers to those questions, he said, “We don’t, a lot of the time!”
I told Stefan I wish I’d remembered his first interview with Mr. Trebek when I saw him at O’Brien’s:
I asked him if he’d have done that there if I asked, and he said, “Without question.” I told my sister he said that (she was there too that night), and she responded in a text, “what a cool dude!” Stefan says he “delights in noises,” and adds, “Maybe some regulars find it obnoxious, but I often break into song or noise at pub quiz.” Then there’s this YouTube clip:
Reader “BigDaddyJ” wanted to know how many takes this, er, took. Stefan says, “I don’t remember, but I would guess it was no more than two video takes. I took several audio takes to verify that my concept (recording all three parts in a single take and staying in key so they can all come together) would work (which was when I discovered I’d need a click track to maintain tempo).”
Stefan studied Recording Arts at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He says he, his sister and his parents all graduated from there, and his parents met there! He says, “I studied sound production (both music and sound effects, as well as on-set recording, although I was less enthusiastic about that).” I remembered that Stefan said during his ToC that he was thinking about using his winnings toward music education. He says, “I haven’t done anything real with the money besides pay off a student loan of about $10,000, but studying music lingers in the back of my mind…Mostly I want to learn more about composition. I’ve got a good mind/ear for it, but the technical details are mostly lost on me. Some more of my musical work, done via Game Boy, can be heard on myspace.com/unfasten.”
Find out more of what Stefan’s doing these days, tomorrow!