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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Upcoming Encore Presentations
August 12: S42 E98 (January 21, 2026)
August 13: S42 E99 (January 22, 2026)
August 14: S42 E100 (January 23, 2026)
August 15-16: S41 E141 (March 24, 2025)
August 17: S42 E101 (January 26, 2026)
August 18: S42 E105 (January 30, 2026)
August 19: S42 E102 (January 27, 2026)
August 20: S42 E103 (January 28, 2026)
August 21: S42 E104 (January 29, 2026)
August 22-23: S41 E142 (March 25, 2025)
August 24: S42 E106 (February 2, 2026)
August 25: S42 E107 (February 3, 2026)
August 26: S42 E108 (February 4, 2026)
August 27: S42 E109 (February 5, 2026)
August 28: S42 E110 (February 6, 2026)
August 29-30: S41 E143 (March 26, 2025)
(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. Ben Ingram $449,201
22. Paolo Pasco $448,717
23. Adriana Harmeyer $446,600
24. Buzzy Cohen $441,603
25. Juveria Zaheer $441,000
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Welcome back to my latest weekly editorial, where I talk about things in my head from the world of Jeopardy! over the past week.
Jeopardy Has Changed A Lot Since The ’90s
Something that you come to realize when entering a boatload of old episodes from 1996 and earlier into J! Archive: The show really has changed a great deal. And I’m not talking about rule changes or judging changes—certainly, there are rulings made in Season 1 that wouldn’t be made in Season 39—the material has gotten significantly more diverse in the 2020s. Over the past week, I’ve seen multiple DRAMA categories that are guaranteed to have clues about Thornton Wilder’s Our Town and various clues about Tennessee Williams; the “canon” is significantly larger in today’s game. And, when it comes to classical music, having Archived multiple clues about Antonín Dvořák’s “From The New World” symphony certainly helped me in LearnedLeague this week!
Jeopardy! And TuneIn Are Perfect For Each Other
Another thing I’m realizing, having input hundreds of early-season games over the past six months: TuneIn Radio has been such a great partnership for Jeopardy! in terms of the broadcast of old episodes. One thing that you quickly realize is that about 75% of the episodes in the first five-plus seasons contain an Audio Daily Double, where the writers have basically found some excuse to shoehorn some audio clip, usually a hit pop song from some era, into the category. Which, quite frankly, makes having to clear music rights an absolute headache. However, I believe that Jeopardy! has found a great partner in TuneIn Radio. Presumably, the Audio Daily Doubles can fit into TuneIn’s general music rights that they already would have, which means that Jeopardy! doesn’t need to worry about having to re-clear a song like Harry Chapin’s “Cat’s in the Cradle” (which appeared as an Audio Daily Double in 1989).
On “Negative Records”
In a game that played very difficult for both the studio contestants and the home audience, Wednesday’s game saw the tabloids use the number of Triple Stumpers as an excuse to shame the contestants for clicks. And that’s why I am incredibly reluctant to mention negative records in my coverage: I don’t think it’s fair that the contestants should be negatively covered like that, when I think that the large number of Triple Stumpers on Wednesday’s game was potentially more the fault of the writers, or even bad luck, than the intelligence level of the contestants.
Preemptive Lectures
At least one person was upset on Friday at what they deemed to be a “preemptive lecture” regarding LGBTQIA+ rights in my write-up on Friday’s game. And I really wish we lived in a world where I felt that it wasn’t necessary. Even where I’m based locally, there was a planned protest on Friday against teaching inclusivity in schools. (Though, very thankfully, the counterprotest outnumbered the protest locally by a factor of about 100 to 1.) But, as long as bigots feel the need to make their feelings known in society, I feel the need to be outspoken against bigotry using my own platform. (And sometimes, that requires the preemptive lecture.)
One Thought I Had After The Last Two “This Is Jeopardy!” Episodes
The last two weeks of the “This Is Jeopardy!” podcast talked about Ken Jennings’ lengthy run on the show. One of the people who was briefly interviewed was Earl Cahill, Ken’s friend who tried out with Ken in 2003 but was not Called. He later asked Maggie Speak about not having been Called, and according to the interview, he said that he would have been Called had Ken lost—but Ken never lost. As someone whose chances of getting on would be somewhere around zero if I tried out at this point (being that I worked for Ken as a volunteer grader on his Tuesday Trivia from 2006 through 2008, and Standards & Practices generally takes a dim view on such matters) sometimes I wonder if I ever want to know what went wrong on my own auditions in 2008, 2015, or 2017. Part of me wants to know how close I came, and part of me also is fine not knowing—because I feel content not knowing. If you were me, would you want to know? Or would you be fine not knowing?
In Conclusion
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