Today’s Final Jeopardy – Friday, July 18, 2025

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Current Champion

Jennifer Leavey, career statistics:
31 correct, 6 incorrect
4/4 on rebound attempts (on 10 rebound opportunities)
26.32% in first on buzzer (30/114)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,000)
2/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,100

To win:
3 games: 52.862%
4: 27.944%
5: 14.772%
6: 7.809%
7: 4.128%
Avg. streak: 3.121 games.
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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 Science Words) for Friday, July 18, 2025 (Season 41, Game 225):

Expanding on a word created by a Czech playwright, Asimov coined this term in 1941 for a branch of science that didn’t exist yet

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:

Ameen Ismail, a particle physicist originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Julia Broussard, a university administrator from New Orleans, Louisiana

Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (11-day total: $282,101)

Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:

The penultimate week of Season 41 ends with Scott Riccardi going for victory number 12. His opponents: Julia Broussard of New Orleans and Ameen Ismail of Ottawa. Yesterday saw Scott put up one of the most dominant performances of all time, racking up $40,000 before Final Jeopardy—unfortunately, he gave half of that back on the game’s 61^st clue, but a $36,000 Coryat Score will not be forgotten.

Meanwhile, with us only being a half-dozen new episodes away from the Next-Day Streaming Era, it feels as though Jeopardy! dodged a bit of a bullet, not having Paramount+ as a streaming partner over the next few years. Paramount is very quickly becoming a toxic brand, especially after the cancellation of Stephen Colbert yesterday, and I am very glad that we don’t need to deal with that.

Correct response: What is robotics?

More information about Final Jeopardy:

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A term coined by Isaac Asimov to describe the study of the design, construction, and operation of robots, robotics had yet to be developed when Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics for his short stories (many of which appeared in I, Robot.)

Those three laws:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

The term “robot” itself came from Karel Čapek’s 1920 play R.U.R., which stood for “Rossum’s Universal Robots”; the term came from the Czech “robota” (meaning “forced labor”).

For me, being very familiar with the term’s etymology, this was a very quick Final Jeopardy solve for me. I think the only issue will be someone accidentally putting down just “robot” and not “robotics”.

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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:

Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Friday, July 18, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:

Jeopardy! Round:

(Categories: Warlocks; Around South America; Ambrose Bierce’S Devil’S Dictionary; Feeling Sheepish; At The Airport; The First U.S. President To…)

A number of Triple Stumpers kept the scores down early; after 15 clues, your scores were Ameen $2,000 Julia $1,400 Scott $1,000.

Statistics at the first break (15 clues):

Ameen 3 correct 0 incorrect
Julia 3 correct 1 incorrect
Scott 2 correct 1 incorrect

Today’s interviews:

Ameen was in Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada when he got The Call.
Julia was very involved in 4-H and was a cooking contest winner.
Scott was once electrocuted when rehearsing in an orchestra.

Scott picked up $1,000 from the Daily Double and held a $400 lead after 30 clues.

Statistics after the Jeopardy round:

Scott 8 correct 1 incorrect
Ameen 8 correct 1 incorrect
Julia 5 correct 2 incorrect

Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:

Scott $4,000
Ameen $3,600
Julia $1,800

Double Jeopardy! Round:

(Categories: War Locks; Tv Kids; International Commerce; Literature; Don’T Eat The Pictures; “Mp”)

Things were decided very early in Double Jeopardy—Scott got the first five clues, including DD2. Ameen found DD3 on clue #7, but an incorrect response dropped him out of contention as Scott cruised to a runaway.

Statistics after Double Jeopardy:

Scott 23 correct 2 incorrect
Julia 9 correct 2 incorrect
Ameen 14 correct 5 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 40 (0 today).

Scores going into Final:

Scott $22,400
Julia $6,200
Ameen $2,600

Everyone got Final Jeopardy correct; Scott brought his total over the $300,000 mark, moving to 14th all time in regular play winnings. He’ll go for win #13 on Monday!

Tonight’s results:

Ameen $2,600 + $105 = $2,705 (What is Robotics? Hi Mom :))
Julia $6,200 + $0 = $6,200 (What is robotics?)
Scott $22,400 + $8,000 = $30,400 (What is Robotics?) (12-day total: $312,501)

Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:

Daily Double locations:

1) AMBROSE BIERCE’S DEVIL’S DICTIONARY $1000 (clue #19)
Scott 1800 +1000 (Julia 1400 Ameen 2600)
2) “MP” $1200 (clue #4)
Scott 8800 +4000 (Julia 1800 Ameen 3600)
3) WAR LOCKS $2000 (clue #7, $25200 left on board)
Ameen 5200 -5000 (Scott 14000 Julia 1800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 5

Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:

J! Round:
Scott 3 3 3 4 2 5*
Julia 3 2 4 5 5 3
Ameen 4 5 4 5 4 5 4

DJ! Round:
Scott 4 5 3* 3 4
Julia 3
Ameen 5*

Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:

Scott 3.55
Julia 3.57
Ameen 4.50

Unplayed clues:

J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 40 (0.18 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles

Game Stats:

Scott $19,600 Coryat, 23 correct, 2 incorrect, 40.35% in first on buzzer (23/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Julia $6,200 Coryat, 9 correct, 2 incorrect, 14.04% in first on buzzer (8/57), 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Ameen $7,600 Coryat, 14 correct, 5 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $33,400
Lach Trash: $12,200 (on 13 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $8,400
Lead Changes: 5
Times Tied: 2

Player Statistics:

Scott Riccardi, career statistics:

316 correct, 24 incorrect
18/18 on rebound attempts (on 50 rebound opportunities)
42.25% in first on buzzer (289/684)
15/21 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $35,000)
9/12 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $22,033

Julia Broussard, career statistics:

10 correct, 2 incorrect
3/3 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
14.04% in first on buzzer (8/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $6,200

Ameen Ismail, career statistics:

15 correct, 5 incorrect
1/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$5,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $7,600

Scott Riccardi, to win:

13 games: 72.428%
14: 52.458%
15: 37.994%
16: 27.519%
17: 19.931%
Avg. streak: 14.627 games.

Andy’s Thoughts:

• Today’s runaway game means no wagering suggestions will be posted.
• Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.

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