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Season 27

Biblical bewilderment

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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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What a surprise; this didn’t publish 24 hours ago like it was supposed to. *sigh* Blogger, when are you going to fix this?! It’s been happening the entire time I’ve been blogging with you, almost a year, and it’s seriously messing me up.

Fred Cofone

Today’s (YESTERDAY’S!) contestants:

Marty Christy

In case you missed yesterday’s episode, Fred upset Molly Rosenbusch because she wagered all of her 16000 on the final. Completely unnecessary, as she had a commanding lead. Fred won with 3200. My Coryat score was 13800. Molly‘s was 15800, Fred’s was 11200, and Mike Huijon’s was 3200. (By the way, I hope I did not spoil the show for anyone by publishing comments before the show had aired everywhere. I won’t do that again.)
Fred, then, had a lot to prove today. The game started very rough for me, especially in Up on Mount Rushmore, something that shouldn’t have been all that tricky. I guessed and missed on three of those clues, and didn’t answer on two of them. And I had been excited about the categories!
Both the first and second rounds featured four Bible clues (in Genesis Quote Fill-In and Down in the “Valley”) that stumped me and the contestants. (They were tricky!):
“They sewed ___ ______ together, and made themselves aprons.”* (I did get that one right.)
“There were ______ in the earth in those days.”*
“And God set them in the _________ of the heaven to give light upon the earth.”*
“In the King James Bible, the Book of Psalms says, ‘Yea, though I walk through’ this, ‘I will fear no evil.'”*
At the first break, Fred had 200, Mai had 3800, and Marty had 400. Fred found the Daily Double in the round with two clues remaining (but it wound up being the last clue). He had swept Unusual Country Music Lyrics, which helped him have 4400 when he found the Daily Double. Mai still had 3800, and Marty had 0. The category was British Novelists, which I was sweeping to that point. Fred wagered 800 on this clue: “Her only published work under her real name, Mary Ann Evans, was a translation of ‘Essence of Christianity.'”* I didn’t know it, but Fred got it right.
Fred found the next Daily Double, too, in Down in the “Valley.” He had 5600, Mai had 4200, and Marty had -800. Fred wagered 1200 on this clue: “Where Tut rested undisturbed until 1922.”* Fred left out an article, but they counted it right.
Lo and behold, Fred found the last Daily Double, too, in Our Watery World. He had a huge lead with 16400, while Mai had 2600 and Marty had -400. Fred wagered 2000 on this clue: “This large Central American lake that shares its name with a country has some of the world’s few freshwater sharks.”* He got it right.
Mai, then, went on a tear and, with 10600, wound up with exactly half of Fred’s 21200. Marty finished Double Jeopardy with -400. The Final Jeopardy category was Word History. This was the clue: “Since the 1600s, this 8-letter word has meant men of letters; a punning form of it refers to celebrities.”* This stumped the contestants, but I am proud to say that it was an “insta-get” for me. Mai did what she had to do and wagered everything, and Fred did what he had to do and wagered nothing. Fred, therefore, proved he belongs on the Jeopardy! stage. (At least for now.) My Coryat score was a pitiful 12600. I believe that’s a new low for me. Fred‘s Coryat score was 20400, Mai’s was 10600, and Marty’s was -400.
*fig leaves, giants, firmament, Eliot, the valley of the shadow of death, Valley of the Kings, Lake Nicaragua, literati

Mai Do-Burrous

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