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Season 29

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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

My Coryat from this weekend’s rerun was 22000 (22200 without a neg on the first clue of the game). The episode originally aired 11-28-11, and when I first played my score was 21000.
Now for the third semifinal of the College Tournament! The winner of this game will join Kristen Jolley and Trevor Walker for the two-day Final.

Julia Sprangers

Uli Nishanth

Jim Coury

Jim found the first Daily Double of the round, in Political Quotes. We had seen 7 clues. Julia had gotten 3 right and had 1200, while Nishanth had gotten 2 right and had 1400. Jim had also gotten 2 right and had 1000. He wagered all of it on this clue: “De Gaulle warned JFK that America would step ‘into a bottomless military and political quagmire’ in this place.” Jim got it. He went on a mini-tear then, answering 5 more right before the next break and arriving there with 5600. Nishanth got one right and had 1600, and Julia still had 1200.
At the end of the round, Jim still led but with 9600. He’d gotten 7 right since the break. Nishanth had gotten 5 right and one wrong, and had 5000. Julia had gotten 3 right and had 2600.
Jim found the first Daily Double of the next round rather early, in Stuff about States. Each contestant had gotten one right, and Nishanth had also gotten one wrong. Jim had 10800, Nishanth had 4600, and Julia had 3000. Jim wagered 7200 (drawing a “whoa” from Mr. Trebek) on this clue: “Of the 4 states officially called commonwealths, it’s alphabetically last.” Jim got it!
I joined my friend Carol for dinner tonight. (I must’ve had it on the brain but I thought Mr. Trebek said the Double Jeopardy round category was Stuff about Steaks.) Carol gives me (thus my mom too) her People magazines after she’s read them. I got two clues right today just from having read one she gave me, last night. In Reality Show Titles: “In 2012, featuring Jeremiah, Kate, Abe, Rebecca & Sabrina: ‘Breaking’ _____.” And in Live Entertainment: “From the Spanish for ‘shell,’ this California valley lent its name to a festival where you could hear Franz Ferdinand in 2013.” Carol also grilled me (no pun intended) about Learned League, and I still didn’t have much to say.
Jim found the next Daily Double too, in Novellas. It seemed like he was searching for it. He’d gotten 2 right and one wrong since his last Daily Double, and had 19200. Julia had gotten 4 right and one wrong and had 5400. Nishanth had gotten 5 right and one wrong, and had 9400. Jim wagered 9800 this time on this easy clue: “A prototype of the form, this Boccaccio work deals with 10 people who each tell a story a day.” Jim smiled in recognition – he got it! Now that we were out of Daily Doubles, it really didn’t look good for Julia and Nishanth. Indeed, at the end of the round, Jim had 32600 while Nishanth had 15800 and Julia had 9000. Jim had gotten 3 right since his last Daily Double. Nishanth had gotten 6 right and one wrong, and Julia had gotten 2 right.
The Final Jeopardy category was Famous Europeans. This was the clue: “After moving to Argentina in 1949, this industrialist was named a righteous Gentile by Yad Vashem.” I was hopeless here. Julia was wrong and some people are rather bent out of shape about her response of “Himmler.” She lost 8000. Nishanth got it and doubled his score. Jim got it too and added 4. We’ll see him in the Final!
My Coryat today was 27600; 29600 without negs.

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