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
Andy here and we’re back to regular play after 4 weeks of tournaments! The remainder of this week’s contestants:
Twyla Dignan, West Linn, OR
Dean Flagg, Los Angeles, CA
Sara Garnett, Okemos, MI
Melissa Leanza, Laguna Hills, CA
Hans Reodica, Navarre, FL
Craig Sallinger, Washington, DC
Hans Reodica and Sara Garnett are your challengers today Remember Joshua Brakhage? He won 5 games and $103,205 right before the tournaments!
J! round categories:
“P”s ON EARTH
OH, A WISE GUY
ANIMAL TALK
GOLD RUSH
SILVER ANNIVERSARIES
THE BRONZE AGE
THE BRONZE AGE was an Olympic bronze medallist category!
Josh had some close negs over the first 15 clues that knocked his score down slightly (“A Brief History of the Universe” for “A Brief History of Time” as one example); the scores after 15 saw Hans leading! They were:
Hans $2,600
Sara $1,800
Joshua $400
After getting back a lot of his lost points, Joshua had the opportunity to do even more damage, when he found the Daily Double on the 24th clue of the round, under “P”s ON EARTH $800. The scores were:
Hans $3,800
Sara $3,600
Joshua $2,000
I know what I’d do here. Joshua did the same thing — a True Daily Double! His clue: ” This U.S. city is the seat of Allegheny County”. His correct response put him to $4,000!
By the end of OH, A WISE GUY, it was Hans who was still having the most luck on the buzzer! At the end of 30, the scores were:
Hans $6,400
Joshua $4,800
Sara $4,200
DJ! round categories:
COLONIAL AMERICA
THE BAND’S KILLER ALBUM FILLER
MED. ABBREV.
WORLD UNIVERSITIES
LITERARY CHARACTERS
3 STRAIGHT VOWELS
Selecting first, Sara went straight into LITERARY CHARACTERS, and when she got the $800 clue, the $1200 clue had the Daily Double waiting for her!
The scores at this point were:
Hans $6,800
Sara $5,000
Joshua $4,800
Sara bet $2,000. I might have gone more, but at least she’s betting for the lead! Her clue: This character who debuted in 1926 is also called Edward Bear. The answer came to Sara, and her score went to $7,000. Put a smile on her face as well!
I used something very similar at music trivia as a final question over 4 years ago and took a lot of heat for it at the time, as there’s a Canadian band of the 70s called Edward Bear. Their biggest hit was “Last Song”.
I was disappointed that there were no Canadian schools in the WORLD UNIVERSITIES category!
A Triple Stumper I got (COLONIAL AMERICA $2000): Last name of the theologian who married his stepsister Maria Cotton in 1662 & his nephew’s widow Ann Cotton in 1715. Another $2,000 Triple Stumper (THE BAND’S KILLER ALBUM FILLER): On “Icky Thump”: “300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues”
Still no Daily Double, though, as Sara kept going and all three player’s scores went into five figures.
On the game’s penultimate clue, after Joshua picked up the $1200 clue in MED. ABBREV. – he finally saw the Daily Double on the $1600 clue.
The scores were:
Sara $15,000
Joshua $13,600
Hans $10,800
One $2000 clue remained, meaning the bet I’d pick for Joshua here is $3,500.
Joshua picked $6,400 as his bet. I can’t quibble with that too much!
On a prescription, q.i.d. is a Latin abbreviation indicating the medication should be taken this often. I would have said “once daily”, Joshua said “twice daily”, and his score fell to $7,200. Hans got the final clue, which means Joshua isn’t out of the running going into Final!
Scores going into FJ!:
Sara $15,000
Hans $12,800
Joshua $7,200
FJ! category: SPEECHWRITERS
FJ! clue: To the question “Did you write the best-known line in JFK’s inaugural?” Ted Sorensen would smile & say these 2 words
Joshua 7200 – 7194 = 6
Hans 12800 – 2201 = 10599
Sara 15000 + 10601 = 25601
Sara Garnett is the new Jeopardy! champion!
While his missing the Final didn’t help him any, I think Hans’ clue selection strategy definitely put him in a worse position going into Final. He said in his interview that he was an ex-doctor. Thus, I think I would have taken MEDICAL ABBREVIATIONS in reverse order as soon as I got any sort of board control. That would have netted him that final Daily Double and probably the lead going into Final.
Tournament of Champions update:
1. Joshua Brakhage $103,205 (5 wins)