Current Champion
Mark Ramirez, career statistics:
28 correct, 6 incorrect
4/5 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
47.37% in first on buzzer (27/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$1,800)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $22,600
To win:
2 games: 61.975%
3: 38.409%
4: 23.804%
5: 14.753%
6: 9.143%
Avg. streak: 2.630 games.
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Upcoming Encore Presentations
September 19-20: S42 E173 (May 6, 2026)
September 26-27: S42 E174 (May 7, 2026)
October 3-4: S42 E175 (May 8, 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 $1,598,403
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
Hello! I hope everyone enjoyed Week 2 of Second Chance. Here are a few hundred words worth of my thoughts on the going-on from the week:
On Differing Statistical Definitions Between J! Archive And The Show
I have used enough virtual column inches discussing the show’s choice to use the term “super-champion” to refer to those who won 10 games (in contrast with J! Archive’s 2003-era definition of “6 wins”.) Despite Ken opening that can of worms last week, I’m not interested in continuing that fight.
However, there were some discrepancies between J! Archive and the show this week regarding counting Triple Stumpers, which I assume resulted from reversals at the judges’ table. At the moment, I will be staying with the J! Archive Triple Stumper count—a judges’ reversal from correct to incorrect results in a Triple Stumper being counted in J! Archive, chiefly due to the technical inability to mark a non-Daily Double clue where no contestant was credited with a correct response as anything other than a Triple Stumper. I am choosing to match J! Archive because, for the first 8,500-odd shows in the show’s history, the only other Triple Stumper count belongs to J! Archive, and I am choosing to match them for consistency’s sake. (I can certainly see why someone would not record this as a Triple Stumper, but again, I think my hands are tied here for technical reasons and historical consistency.)
The other discrepancy, however, resulted from the judges going the other way the following day, retroactively crediting a player with a correct response after being ruled incorrect by the judges. In my opinion, being credited with a correct response retroactively should nullify any recorded Triple Stumper—and I don’t think this would be a particularly contentious debate, either.
It’ll be interesting to see if anything comes of this over the coming days and weeks.
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The Cristiano Ronaldo Clue (And, Redemption?)
Thursday’s game saw a $1,000 clue with a photograph of Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo, with some people shocked that it was placed at the level that it was. Those fans might have had a point—after all, Cristiano Ronaldo is the most-followed individual on Instagram—but what caught my ear was the fact that Deanna Bolio was asked to be more specific—presumably between Cristiano Ronaldo and multiple Ballon d’Or recipient Ronaldo. In the early 2010s, in my past career as a pub quiz host, I took heat from players for doing the exact same thing (asking players to differentiate between Ronaldo and Cristiano Ronaldo), and I couldn’t help but feel a little bit of redemption for my own decision on that.
My Thoughts On The First Ladies “Be More Specific” Hullabaloo
While we’re on the subject of “be more specific”, I think it’s time for a hot take in terms of what happened on Wednesday’s Double Jeopardy Round (in THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C.) For those who missed it, the $1200 clue was “She met the future president in 1938 when they both tried out for a local play in Whittier, California”. Alex Lamb rang in with “Who is Nixon?” and was asked to be more specific; the shock of this caused him to accidentally say Richard Nixon and be charged with an incorrect response.
While I come at this having played a large amount of Online Quiz League—where the last name only is required in nearly every single case—I don’t actually mind what Ken and the judges did. After all, if the category is going to be about U.S. First Ladies, should it not be incumbent upon the contestants to actually know their first names? Moreover, these women have their own identities—their own names is just the starting point—that are more than just their husbands’ last names.
Honestly, though, I think this will become a situation where, regardless of what the show chooses to do (prompting more often vs. prompting less often), a large chunk of the show’s audience is going to be angry; there have certainly been many commenters over the years who get angry when they don’t think the show prompts enough.
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The Celebrity Jeopardy! Schedule
Some minor news ripples were made this week when the first 18 celebrities were announced on the Celebrity Jeopardy mini-site, and half of the matchups were quickly taken down. There was some speculation that it was because those matches had yet to tape, and I just wanted to note that this was decidedly incorrect. Two sets of matches have already been taped—both August 21 and 23 were Celebrity Jeopardy tapings. (Some “reporters”—deliberately put in quotes because I am using the term incredibly loosely here—need to stop taking the word of random Reddit users as gospel.)
In Closing
Next week sees Week 3 of Second Chance and the return of Celebrity Jeopardy — I hope everyone has a good week!
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