Current Champion
Matthew Riggle, career statistics:
69 correct, 9 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
40.35% in first on buzzer (69/171)
3/4 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $800)
1/3 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $20,467
To win:
4 games: 54.818%
5: 30.050%
6: 16.473%
7: 9.030%
8: 4.950%
Avg. streak: 4.213 games.
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Upcoming Encore Presentations
September 19-20: S42 E173 (May 6, 2026)
September 26-27: S42 E174 (May 7, 2026)
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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 $1,598,403
7. Victoria Groce $1,023,801
8. Mattea Roach $897,983
9. Jamie Ding $885,605
10. David Madden $785,733
11. Cris Pannullo $754,286
12. Roger Craig $706,200
13. Andrew He $684,365
14. Larissa Kelly $671,930
15. Matt Jackson $623,612
16. Jason Zuffranieri $549,496
17. Paolo Pasco $548,717
18. Scott Riccardi $533,000
19. Jerome Vered $499,102
20. Julia Collins $495,767
21. Austin Rogers $493,000
22. Juveria Zaheer $491,000
23. Ben Ingram $449,201
24. Adriana Harmeyer $446,600
25. Buzzy Cohen $441,603
Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Comic Strip Title Characters) for Tuesday, January 22, 2019 (Season 35, Episode 97):
These 2 were named for a European “theologian who believed in predestination” & a “philosopher with a dim view of human nature”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Julie Bender, a public transportation consultant from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Haley Zapal, a copywriter from Atlanta, Georgia
John Presloid, a microbiologist from Perrysburg, Ohio (4-day total: $92,200)
John is currently #14 on our ToC Tracker; a win today for him is crucial!
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Correct response: Who are Calvin and Hobbes?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
The European theologian who believed in predestination: John Calvin; Calvin’s church in Geneva was the subject of Final Jeopardy! back in early October. Calvin had been driven from France into Switzerland due to religious tensions.
The philosopher was Thomas Hobbes, who famously described life in the state of nature as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”.
Putting them together as a little boy (Calvin) and his pet tiger (Hobbes) was cartoonist Bill Watterson who drew the strip between 1985 and 1995.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Haley $14,400
John $13,800
Julie $7,200
Tonight’s results:
Julie $7,200 + $0 = $7,200
John $13,800 + $1,000 = $14,800
Haley $14,400 + $13,000 = $27,400 (1-day total: $27,400)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Haley $6,900
John $600
Julie $0
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) LIT-POURRI $800 (6th pick)
Haley 2400 -1500 (Julie -400 John -600)
2) LANGUAGE FAMILIES $1600 (4th pick)
Haley 8500 +1500 (John 1400 Julie 0)
3) MUSICAL & PLAY SETTINGS $1200 (15th pick)
Julie 3600 +2000 (Haley 9600 John 7800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 11
Unplayed clues:
J! round: NEVER GONNA GIVE U UP $600
DJ! Round: None!
Total $ Left On Board: $600
Game Stats:
Haley $16,000 Coryat, 22 correct, 4 incorrect, 37.50% in first on buzzer, 3/3 on rebound attempts
John $13,800 Coryat, 17 correct, 2 incorrect, 33.93% in first on buzzer
Julie $6,400 Coryat, 11 correct, 2 incorrect, 19.64% in first on buzzer, 1/1 on rebound attempts
Combined Coryat Score: $36,200
Lach Trash: $10,400 (on 8 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $6,800
John Presloid, final stats:
114 correct, 13 incorrect
7/8 on rebound attempts
37.81% in first on buzzer (107/283)
7/7 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $33,600)
3/5 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $16,400
Haley Zapal, stats to date:
23 correct, 4 incorrect
3/3 on rebound attempts
37.50% in first on buzzer (21/56)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $0)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $16,000
Haley Zapal, to win:
2 games: 47.59%
3: 22.64%
4: 10.77%
5: 5.13%
6: 2.44%
Avg. streak: 1.908 games.
Tournament of Champions projections:
With a projected 143 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 500,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 4.0685 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.6867).
An average of 7.3574 4+-time champions (standard deviation 2.083).
An early cutoff took place 19.329% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
Haley Zapal qualified 5.727% of the time.
Anneke Garcia qualified 57.204% of the time.
Dave Leffler qualified 31.938% of the time.
Jonathan Dinerstein qualified 10.922% of the time.
Alex Schmidt qualified 2.764% of the time.
John Presloid qualified 0.341% of the time.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- The J! round categories saw NEVER GONNA GIVE U UP and RICK ROLES in the far right. Took the writers long enough to make that joke!
- Someone put a curse on the set back in August. That would be one explanation for why we’re seeing all of these four-time champs not make it to five.
- I don’t get why a player would bet almost all the way up to a full cover but not actually go through with the full cover. But I’m not the one on the stage, either. If I get there, I can play the game the way I want to, and until that point, the players on stage can play the game the way they want to.
- John was a popular champion and I think that there are going to be a lot of people disappointed that he didn’t get to five victories.
- To compare with the in first on buzzer statistics above, the “effective in first on buzzer” statistics (by the way, that name for the stat isn’t set in stone, so please feel free to make a suggestion if you have something better): Haley 41.18% (21/51), John 37.25% (19/51), Julie 21.57% (11/51)
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