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
I hope you’ve stuck with us all summer. It’s been maybe our best. In case you missed it, Andy and I have been hosting Google Hangouts. They’re starting to take the form of panel discussions. We do also have occasional practices (open to one and all), in case we have a panelist who wants it. I toyed with the idea of replacing our daily recaps with these Hangouts, but happily, Andy wants to do both. (I do, too.) What do you think? Also, is there anyone you’re dying to see in a Hangout? Leave a comment below, tweet me, or leave a message on the Facebook page. We’re having our next one tonight at 9:30 Central. We’ll be talking about the last Battle of the Decades week. Come back then to watch live. We’ll have one BotD contestant we haven’t had before!!
Two more new things: I got sick of waiting til 9 p.m. to publish when I’d get posts done at like 6. So I’m abolishing that rule, as well as the “at least 24 hours between posts” rule. At Andy’s suggestion, we now have 3 posts on our home page instead of one. Important: You have to click “read more.” It looks to me anyway like the posts just end abruptly! They don’t!
Finally, I want to point out that past contestant and Hangout attendee Lee Ann Roberts is appearing this week, Thursday and Friday, on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Let me know how it goes because I don’t get that show where I live.
Here are the week’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Stephanie Bilyeu – Champaign, IL (WAND)
Bill Cossen – Lexington, SC (WOLO)
Carrie Delapena – Plano, TX (KTXA)
Tessa Fleming – Mission Viejo, CA (KABC)
Jesse Henning – Westerville, OH (WBNS)
Erica Hersh – South Orange, NJ (WABC)
Howard Jacobs – Pikesville, MD (WBFF)
Matthew Price – East Providence, RI (WPRI)
And today: Steve Lozano, Elizabeth Williams and one-time returning champ Winston Nguyen. Forgive me; I was unwilling to wait for the pictures I e-mailed myself to load. I can add them later if you insist. Erica and maybe Bill are coming to our next Hangout!
Of course I could not wait to blog today. So imagine my shock when I didn’t wake up til 10 minutes before the show was to start. I haven’t gotten out of bed that fast in a long time, and I was still in a fog when I tried to start. But I was disappointed – during the hiatus I changed Internet providers, and my new hotspot was so bad, sites wouldn’t load. I physically went back to my new place this afternoon, and they told me the speed I had was as slow as dial-up! (2 mbps?) She upgraded me :-(, but when I went home it still wouldn’t work. I called her and then went back, and now I’m using my phone as a hotspot and everything appears to be fine. I’ll believe it when this publishes. The story has a happy ending if it does publish – Now I won’t have to pay for Internet service.
Another ugh, though. Mr. Trebek walked out with a mustache today. Too much has been said about that already.
I got this triple-stumper in States That Flow Together, even though I wasn’t paying attention to Trebek’s explanation of the category: “One has St. Louis, the other has East St. Louis.” (One state in the correct response is supposed to begin with the last letter of the other state.) Steve negged on it! After that I was in such a hurry I didn’t bother trying to respond correctly to clues. Keep in mind I had to have myself and my apartment ready by 9:30 for the Hangout. Thank God I’d had everything typed in this post but the recap. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. At the first break:
Winston 3000 (5 right)
Elizabeth 2000 (5 right)
Steve -200 (One right and two wrong)
Elizabeth finally found the Daily Double in States That Flow Together, with one clue on the board after it.
Winston 3800 (One right)
Elizabeth 4200 (3 right)
Steve 2000 (4 right)
Yes, there were lots of triple-stumpers! Elizabeth wagered 2000 on this clue: “The big land buy named for one also got us the other.” She got it. Steve missed the next one in the same category for 1000. It was a triple-stumper and even I got it right despite the lack of focus: “One has Rocky Mountain National Park, one has Cherokee State Park.”
Winston found the first Daily Double of Double Jeopardy in “C” to “C”. (Correct responses begin and end with that letter.
Winston 7400 (4 right)
Elizabeth 6200
Steve 1400 (2 right and one wrong)
Winston wagered 2000. I’d almost definitely wager it all. This was the clue: “It’s distilled from white wine & is named for a city in western France.” He missed it.
Steve soon found the next Daily Double in Brit Bits.
Winston 5400
Elizabeth 6600 (One right)
Steve 3800 (2 right)
Steve wagered on this clue: “In 1613 a cannon spark during a performance of ‘Henry VIII’ set this theater ablaze & it burned to the ground.” Okay, please. Teen Week level! Steve got it.
I could’ve answered this triple-stumper in No. 1 Songs even if I hadn’t woken up: “In 2013 & 2014 this rapper had a monster hit with ‘The Monster,’ featuring Rihanna.” Steve even negged on it with “Kanye West”! Sorry but he had another laughable neg when he substituted “Marvin Gaye” for “Al Green” in the same category.
Okay, I did also get this triple-stumper, the last clue of the round, in Memoirs of the Working Life: “‘Born Standing Up’ is this man’s story of bursting onto the comedy scene in the 1970s, white suit & all.” Has anybody read this?
Winston 7000 (3 right)
Elizabeth 13400 (5 right)
Steve 6000 (One right and two wrong)
The Final Jeopardy category was Authors. Good. This was the clue: “In 1937 his sister said he had ‘hats of every description’ which he would use as a ‘foundation of his next book.'” Steve didn’t have a response, and he lost 5000. Winston wrote “I’m sorry, Claire, ” and lost all but 2 dollars. Elizabeth started to write something she thought was cute and lost 600 for it. Hey, I got this one right! Anyway Elizabeth comes back tomorrow.
One year ago: This indecision’s bugging me
Two years ago: Week 7, Day 2 #SHC2012
Three years ago: [untitled]
Four years ago: Tennis to trump Trebek tomorrow