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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First, this week’s contestants:
Emily Gilmore of Fredericksburg, VA
Joey Gutmann of New York, NY
Paula Menasche of Coral Gables, FL
Michele Myers Beuerlein of Cincinnati, OH (Uh oh…”Michele“! That whole thing was tough to spell by the way.)
Ana Peso of Wheeling, IL
Ashok Poozhikunnel of Wheaton, IL
Julie Reynolds of Waterville, OH
Andrew Schwerin of Cherry Hill, NJ
Alison Shapiro of Santa Monica, CA
Sarah Shemkus of Manchester, MA
Laura Suzuki of Toronto, ON Canada
Alistair Bell appeared on December 12th, 13th, 14th, and 17th. Enjoy!
Q: Good job, Alistair. I hope it doesn’t hurt too much for me to say I’m sorry you didn’t make the ToC.
A: I’ve had a while to come to terms with it — in fact, for a while after I taped, I didn’t realize how close I’d gotten to it! One of the benefits of not making the ToC is that I can go back to just watching the show, rather than using every opportunity to practice with a Coryat grid. While of course I’d have loved to join Stephanie and the gang in LA next month, them’s the breaks, and I can’t exactly say I’m disappointed with my overall performance on Jeopardy!
Q: Did you practice with a Coryat grid before your appearance?
A: Oh yes, too many times. I made my own pretty simple one on Google Docs.
Q: I noticed on the message boards you came to the U.S. from Britain in 2000. An England-loving friend asks, what part of it you are from? I heard Mr. Trebek say you born outside of London. Why did you come to the U.S.?
A: I was born in Carshalton, on the southern edge of London, and grew up in London and Glasgow. I moved back to London after college, and then about a year after our wedding, we decided to have an ‘adventure’. It was the tech boom, people with my skills were highly in demand, and visas were available. We said ‘we’ll give it a year and see what happens’ — nearly thirteen years later we’re still here, we’ve been joined by two children, and we’re actually all Americans now! (I like to say I’m an ‘American with a funny accent’.)
Q: I thought “capo” was a good get. And in the same game, I was a little surprised you went to Early U.S. Capitals.
Q: I’m pretty musical and I’ve played odd bits of guitar here and there. And yes, I can’t quite remember why I went to capitals, but I’m pretty good on geography.
Q: I was a little surprised you didn’t get “Big Ben.” Did you try to ring in on “Southampton”? Or “Laurence Olivier”?
A: Ah, Big Ben. There’s a story there. In that question and a couple of others, too much knowledge is dangerous! The BBC do indeed use Big Ben as a time signal at the top of the hour, twice a day. The other 22 hours, they use something called the Greenwich Time Signal (five short beeps, followed by one long beep). So there I was standing dumbly, trying to make ‘Greenwich Time Signal’ alliterate! Southampton I tried, but I hated that “Star Board” category. We actually saw seven pictures in that category because there was a technical error — I was impressed that they had spare clues!
Q: What did the person on the other end of the line say when you tripped getting on The Tube, while talking to him on the phone?
A: I honestly don’t remember. It was 1995 and I’d just gotten my first cellphone. I was talking to some movers at the time. In fairness, at that particular station, the gap is absolutely enormous.
Q: Which station was it?
A: Peckham Rye, platform 4. (Not technically a tube station but might as well be.) At the eastern end of the platform there’s this HUGE step up and out, as the train is actually tilting away from you to go around a bend that starts partway along the platform.
Q: I thought these responses of yours were particularly good from your second episode: Tahiti, TV show, the deep blue sea, no man’s land, Smetana, James Watt, sextant, James Baker.
A: The biggest story there is Smetana. I have the Bartered Bride on a CD somewhere from my college years, and never forgot it. The fact that I didn’t have enough courage to ring in on Chopin or Handel (thinking those were the right answers but not certain), and then got Smetana, was much remarked upon by the other contestants! As for James Baker, I blame the HBO show ‘Recount’. He took charge of the Republican side of the Florida recount in 2000 (against Warren Christopher for the Dems) and his bombast as portrayed there was hard to forget.
Q: Did you stay in the audience for the rest of the episodes the day you lost?
A: I stayed for Susan’s second and third episodes, then left at lunchtime with some friends who had come to cheer me on. (They couldn’t make my first day, and I told them I’d been held over. So they were a little surprised when I walked out to the champion’s podium!) Susan told me that evening in the hotel bar how her final episode went, so we were able to congratulate/commiserate with each other.
Q: Is there anything else you want to say?
A: We had the best group of contestants. Many of us have stayed in touch since taping, and we were cheering each other on via Facebook through all our runs, basking in each other’s glory. (Some of us even went to others’ viewing parties, but I’m sure that’s in Josh’s Q & A 😉 )
I grew up nine miles from Paisley and have friends who live there. I’ve taken tours of the old factories where they made Paisley patterns. And I still didn’t get it. D’oh!
There’s one story I wish I could share properly, but it involves the questions at the audition, which we can’t disclose. So I’ll tread carefully. At my audition there was a question in the written test that I didn’t know. Immediately after the test, Meredith Lowmaster (vanquisher of Stephanie Jass), who was sitting in front of me, compared notes with me, and in the process she told me the answer to that question. Later, in the mock game, the same answer came up and I was able to answer correctly. Imagine my surprise when the same answer turned up during one of my real games!
Oh, and one more story. On the plane to LA on the day before taping, I was playing iPad Jeopardy. A tennis category turned up and I didn’t do very well in it. The next day we were in rehearsals and the very category that I’d played on the plane, with the same questions, went up on the board! Not a problem, given that it was rehearsals, but quite the surprise nonetheless.
Well done, Alistair, and thank you!