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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It’s been an interesting week in J!Land—here are my thoughts on some happenings:
What Will Likely Happen Now That The WGA Strike Is Ending
The major news in Jeopardy!-land this week is that the WGA strike is ending. So, what’s going to be happening with the show? Firstly, episodes through to Wednesday, November 8 have already been recorded. Over the next five and a half weeks, we’ll see boards similar to those we saw this past week, somewhere between 25 to 50% repeated clues. However, I would be surprised to see nearly as many repeated clues from November 9 onwards. As a member of the Jeopardy! team said to Questionist in early September, “as fast as feasible, we’d try to nudge the repurposed material out in favor of new material“. That process begins Monday— show writer Mark Gaberman has posted on social media that he returns to work then. I also believe that the show has committed to finishing this Champions Wildcard, which means that the originally intended “Season 39 postseason” (though, technically, Season 40) will begin around December 19. I should also note that the Jeopardy! website itself has referred to this as “the first Jeopardy! Second Chance competition of the season“.
This Isn’t Your Parents’ Jeopardy Any More
Yes, this means there will be significantly more tournament play in 2023–24 and significantly less regular play. This is by design, and we will see more of this in the future.
Jeopardy! has a major long-term issue that critics refuse to acknowledge: linear broadcast television and cable are dying slowly in North America; more households are “cutting the cord” yearly. (I don’t think I would be incorrect if I said the National Football League was a tourniquet preventing the four major US networks from immediately bleeding to death.) Thus, in my opinion, doing nothing to increase the number of people thinking about and talking about Jeopardy! (that being 85% regular play and the occasional tournament) is going to see the show not have a viable broadcast outlet by the end of the decade. (If you actually believe that any streaming service will pay for the production costs of a 230-episode season, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.) Thus, to keep the show viable in the long term, Jeopardy! has decided that it is more important to focus on “bankable” personalities (personalities like James Holzhauer, Amy Schneider, Mattea Roach, Matt Amodio, etc.) with potential future stars entering the pipeline at a slower rate. Michael Davies is doing his best to ensure that Jeopardy! can still exist in 2030, even if it comes at the expense of changes in 2022 and 2023 that might bother a few die-hards now.
The Jeopardy! of the future is going to be “more tournaments” and much less “regular play” than we’re used to—because streaming services will be much more willing to commission a self-contained tournament of 13 episodes featuring players that America already knows than they would 200 episodes of “new” contestants.
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That Wasn’t An Angus Cattle…?
On Friday, there was a minor controversy surrounding one of the video clues, where numerous fans claimed that the show displayed a picture of Scottish highland cattle instead of Angus cattle. So, what happened?
In my experience covering the show, Jeopardy!‘s mistakes usually happen because the show’s sources are incorrect—this was exactly the case here. This photo came from DepositPhotos and was captioned “The herd of aberdeen angus [sic] eating grass on spring meadow — photo by CaptureLight.” CaptureLight happens to be Czech photographer Radomir Rezny; thus, it appears this mistake was made because Rezny, likely not knowing the difference, mistakenly captioned a photograph of Scottish highland cattle as Angus cattle. Rezny was contacted for a statement but failed to reply to The Jeopardy! Fan before publication.
This is a worrying problem with the show that has come up multiple times over the past few years—for whatever reason, there seems to be less of a “sanity check” regarding the show’s material. This isn’t the first time the show has relied on poor sourcing and has ended up looking less credible as a result; it is clear that DepositPhotos should not be trusted as a source in the future and that a stock photo supplier that checks its captions should be relied on instead.
Because I Know At Least Some Of You Are Wondering Why I’m Not Talking About Champions Wildcard In This Column
Since the Questionist team has provided me with research assistance over the last few days, there will be specific thoughts on this in tomorrow’s column in Questionist.
In Closing
Enjoy the first week of Champions Wildcard next week!
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