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Season 29

Bad Jeopardy! Responses

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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)
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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 $1,098,403
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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My Coryat from this weekend’s rerun was 23200, with 3800 in negs. The episode originally aired 10-20-11, and the first time I played, my score was 19800.
I’m pleased to cover my first episode from the current College Tournament. Here are the contestants:

Paige Radtke

Trevor Walker
(He does not look like Obama like he claims!)

Taylor Roth

Now I’m sorry but before the first break I was wondering where they dug up these contestants. Surely there were much more qualified applicants. The color combination, which Mr. Trebek pointed out, was perhaps the best thing about this group.
Take this triple-stumper for example in “Sin”onyms, the second clue in the game: “Synonym for unattached.” I stared as blankly at them as they did at the board. Mr. Trebek did his “duh” voice when revealing the response. At the first break though, Paige and Trevor both managed to get 5 right and one wrong. Their scores were 1800 for Paige and 2400 for Trevor. Taylor had gotten one right and one wrong and was in the hole 400. She found the Daily Double of the round later in Yes, They Will. She’d gotten 3 right and now had 1800. Paige had gotten 2 right and one wrong and had 2800. Trevor had gotten one right and had 2800. Taylor wagered “just 800” on this easy clue: “His 1821 will, written on St. Helena, stipulated that his ashes be scattered ‘on the banks of the Seine.'” She got it right. There were 6 clues left in the round. Taylor got 2 of those and now led with 3600. Paige got one wrong and had 1800. Trevor got one right and had 3000.
Paige found the first Daily Double of Double Jeopardy in Transportation. She’d gotten 3 right and one wrong in the round, and had 1800. Taylor had gotten one right and had 4800. Trevor had gotten one right and had 5000. Paige wagered 800 🙁 on this clue: “You can see Mount Fuji in the background as one of these with a ballistic name speeds by.”

She and I got it.
Trevor found the next Daily Double right after picking up a 2000 clue where Paige and Taylor both negged. Trevor had gotten 3 right and one wrong since Paige’s Daily Double, and had 9000. Paige had gotten 4 right and 2 wrong and had 1400, and Taylor had gotten 3 right and one wrong and had 5600. The stoic Trevor wagered 2000 on this clue in The First Millennium: “Pliny the Younger wrote that fumes from its eruption probably killed his uncle ‘by blocking his windpipe.'” Trevor got it immediately.
It was lucky for Trevor he got the last clue, worth 2000. It gave him a lock on the game. He’d gotten 2 right and one wrong since his Daily Double and had 13800. Taylor had gotten one right and had 6000. Paige had gotten 2 right and had 3800. Of course, there are wild cards for Paige and Taylor to consider.
The Final Jeopardy category was Famous Englishmen. Before he read the clue, Mr. Trebek said “Sounds easy” and “How easy is this?” Well it was a triple-stumper, and I didn’t get it either. Here’s the clue: “On the eve of his 200th birthday in 2009, the Church of England offered him ‘an apology for misunderstanding you.'” Paige lost 2201, leaving her with 1599. Why bother wagering aiming for one dollar more than your opponent when it doesn’t matter in a quarterfinal whether you come in second or third? Taylor didn’t do any better, losing all but a dollar. Trevor lost 1799 and advances to the semis.
These were my triple-stumpers besides “single” above:

  • In What Degree Are You Getting?: “If you’re in the northern hemisphere, point one arm at the North Star and the other at the horizon. The angle between the two will give you roughly where you are on the earth in degrees of this.”

  • In Islands: “In 1906 Britain transferred the territory of Papua on this island to the jurisdiction of Australia.”

  • Again in Islands: “Founded by bounty mutineers, it’s now encouraging immigration because its small population of about 50 is aging.” If I can get a triple-stumper in this category by the way, anyone can.

  • In Recent Title Role Playing: “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone.”

  • In The First Millennium: “In 452 Pope Leo I met this warrior known as the ‘Scourge of God’ & persuaded him not to sack Rome.”

  • Again in The First Millennium: “In 759 this ‘diminutive’ father of Charlemagne extended his rule to the Pyrenees.”

  • One more time in The First Millennium: “In 430 St. Augustine died in this North African port after 34 years as its bishop.”

My Coryat today was 24800; 26600 without negs. For kicks I worked out my average in the last College Tournament. (Has it really been since February 2012?) It was 26600. My average so far is 26400.

Wild Card standings:


Monday’s winner: Hannah Shoenhard
Tuesday’s winner: Jim Coury
Wednesday’s winner: Trevor Walker
1. Kristen Jolley $19,000
2. Julia Sprangers $16,400
3. Daniel Donohue $14,000
4. Jed Silver $9,199
5. Paige Radtke $1,599
6. Taylor Roth $1

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