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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Hello! Andy here blogging Thursday’s episode; unfortunately no pictures for me once again! The challengers today, though, are Noah Rachels and Skylar Rampersaud. Your 1-day returning champion is Mike McCormick!
J! round categories:
HOME SWEET MOTOR HOME
MOVIE MONEY
SHALL I COMPARE THEE?
THE NAME OF THE FLAG
AMERICAN WOMAN
STAY AWAY FROM MEAT
I was a big fan of Mike’s mannerisms today; it really seemed as if he was having fun today! At the end of the opening segment, Noah led with $2,000. Mike had $1,600 and Skylar $1,000 (having done reasonably well in STAY AWAY FROM MEAT – I wonder if she’s vegetarian?)
Skylar spoke about having met two sitting presidents. You’d think that being from Hawaii, one might have been Obama, but no! Clinton and George W. Bush are the two!
Mike made a reference to an “Andy” in his interview. Before you ask, no, that wasn’t me!
Shortly after the break, Mike found the Daily Double under THE NAME OF THE FLAG $600! Scores at this point:
Mike $2,600
Skylar $2,400
Noah $2,000
Mike bet just $1,600. His clue: This Caribbean nation flies La Estrella Solitaria, “The Solitary Star”. Mike went for a different Caribbean nation and thus falls to $1,000.
All 3 players had some good gets later in the round, but it was Noah who had the best performance late, getting some of the $1,000 clues to move to a lead at the end of the Jeopardy! round. Scores:
Noah $6,000
Skylar $2,800
Mike $2,600
DJ! round categories:
SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT
AUTHORS ON AUTHORS
THEIR TV ROLES
JA, DAS IST MEIN POSSE
1930s SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
“TAR” & “FEATHERS”
There was some difficulty early on in a few spots; I’m surprised that THEIR TV ROLES $2000 (Hurley Reyes & Dr. Diego Soto) was a Triple Stumper! However, Mike was able to bring himself back into the game a little bit before he found himself facing down another Daily Double! This one was in AUTHORS ON AUTHORS $1600. Scores at this point:
Noah $7,600
Mike $7,400
Skylar $2,400
His bet: $2,500. His clue: Conan Doyle wrote, “Where was the detective story until” this author “breathed the breath of life into it? His guess was sadly incorrect once again, dropping him to $4,900.
Noah got his buzzer mojo back once again and proceeded to pad his lead. A costly neg (he gave the country name instead of the city) at the bottom of SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT though for him, though (Hoping to rid himself of those troublesome Hapsburgs, in 1529 Suleiman laid siege to this city but couldn’t take it) gave Mike and Skylar a glimmer of hope. It was Skylar who went back to 1930s SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY and found the Daily Double sitting at the $2000 level there. Scores:
Noah $10,000
Mike $7,300
Skylar $4,400
Her bet was just $2,400. Her clue: In 1935 this American became the first to shoot a liquid-fuel rocket faster than the speed of sound. Her incorrect response meant we went 0 for 3 on today’s Daily Doubles — and her score fell to $2,000.
She did have the prescnece of mind, though, to start at the bottom of JA, DAS IST MEIN POSSE, though, so props to that piece of strategy! It was Noah who got the game’s final two clues (with some good depth of knowledge) to nearly cement a runaway, but not quite!
Scores going into Final:
Noah $13,600
Mike $7,300
Skylar $2,000
(Hmmm. Interesting.)
FJ! category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY
FJ! clue: Though it consists entirely of islands, this populous country borders 3 other nations
(I got this immediately.)
Skylar 2000 – 2000 = 0
Mike 7300 + 7300 = 14600
Noah 13600 + 1499 = 15099
I’m not entirely sure what prompted Noah to pick $1,499 out of the air — in fact, this was a situation that might have introduced some unnecessary risk!
Mike might have been tempted to bet exactly $5,300 here, considering that it both falls to exactly Skylar’s current score if Mike gets the question wrong, and beats Noah’s “normal shutout bet” by $1 if Noah gets the question wrong! I do like Mike’s bet here, though, especially if he thinks Noah might see this situation and only bet the $1,000 — just in case. If I’m Skylar, I’m probably betting just $1,998 — just in case. That extra $2 you leave behind might just be the difference in prize money between second and third!
Noah will be back tomorrow to wrap up the week, and Jeanie will be around to blog it! I’ll be back next week!
ETA: This is Jeanie, inserting a picture of one of today’s clue at the request of a reader:
