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 with the recap of the final game of the week! We’ve had a succession of 1-time champions as of later; I guess that makes up for all of the longer runs that we’ve seen!
Phil Goldstein and Mary Graves are the challengers for Judy Arginteanu! It felt as though Johnny sped through the player introductions today — I wonder if that was to compensate for how slowly Judy played yesterday!
J! round categories:
TED TALKS
NFL DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
BODY SNATCHERS
WEIGHTS & MEASURES
COUNTRY ROADS
TAKE ME HOME
And of course, Judy started off slowly. Literally. It felt as though it took forever to select the opening clue! However, as soon as Mary took over (selecting COUNTRY ROADS $800), she found the Daily Double!
Scores were:
Judy $600
Mary $600
Phil $0
Mary bet the full $1,000. Her clue: The Karakoram Highway has this superlative distinction amongst international highways.
Coming out of the Daily Double, Mary got 4/5 in TAKE ME HOME and Phil took 4/5 in NFL DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR (sadly negging on the $1,000 clue: 2009: cornerback Charles Woodson of this team). The scores at the end of the first segment (after 16 clues! Amazing what keeping the slow players off the buzzer will do!) were:
Mary $5,000
Phil $1,200
Judy $800
The clues were much more evenly matched coming out of the break! Phil picked up 5 of the final 14, Mary 5, and Judy 4!
The following clue sent me to do some more research, because it sounds like an interesting story (BODY SNATCHERS $1000): In 1973 this country-rock pioneer known as “GP” was treated to a homemade cremation by his drunk buddies. Not really being familiar with it, I was worried this cremation occured while the subject was still living! But it was not — it was lighting the corpse after dousing him with 5 gallons of gasoline!
Scores at the end of 30:
Mary $7,400
Phil $5,000
Judy $3,000
DJ! round categories:
CELEBRITIES’ FAVORITE BOOKS
COVERING YOUR BASES
TV SHOWS BY DAD
EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY
ART SUBJECTS
-E-I-E-I- OH!
Judy found the first Daily Double under ART SUBJECTS $1200. The scores:
Mary $7,400
Phil $5,000
Judy $3,800
Judy looked absolutely horrified that she’d found it! She bet just $2,000. Her clue: It took him to make a masterpiece in 1662 out of “The Syndics of the Amsterdam Drapers’ Guild”. Judy’s correct response put her at $5,800.
If the buzzer skill of Mary was to be believed after the Daily Double, Judy missed her opportunity. Of the next 9 clues, 7 were Mary’s, with a pair of Triple Stumpers.
Jane Goodall’s clue reading in CELEBRITIES’ FAVORITE BOOKS seemed about as slow as anyone’s in the history of the show!
A tough neg for Phil on COVERING YOUR BASES $2000, where he’d failed to notice a key word in the clue: Found in a British Harry Potter title, this stone was sought by alchemists to turn base metals into precious ones. Phil added “…or Sorceror’s Stone”, which made his response incorrect (after all, the clue did specify British!).
The final Daily Double went Mary’s way in EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY, and after the judges took a large sum of money away from Phil for his earlier neg, the scores were:
Mary $15,400
Judy $7,000
Phil $4,200
Mary bet $2,400. Her clue: In 1677 he drafted the first charter guaranteeing separation of church & state in the Quaker colony of west New Jersey. Mary had the look of “I should have gone for the obvious” after her reponse was ruled incorrect, and she fell to $13,000.
6 clues were left when the “minute to go” signal was given, and 2 clues in -E-I-E-I- OH! were left at the end of it!
Scores going into Final:
Mary $11,800
Judy $9,800
Phil $3,400
FJ! categories: COUNTRIES’ HIGHEST POINTS
FJ! clue: This country is home to the highest mountain outside Asia
Phil 3400 – 3300 = 100
Judy 9800 – 2500 = 7300
Mary 11800 – 6900 = 4900
Somehow, Judy ends up with the most money after this trainwreck of a Final, and she will return on Monday as a 2-day champion! I’ll see you late next week!