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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Today’s GSN episode starred Carol from Arizona, Mike from New Jersey, and 1-day champ Ray from Virginia. On yesterday’s episode, Ray beat 1-day champ Victoria, who had unseated 19-day champ David Madden. I don’t know about you, but I don’t like to see “giant-slayers” last only a day. It seems to indicate that their win was a fluke and that they shouldn’t have beat their opponent.
Anyway, Carol got off to a slow start, and was in the hole $2200 at the first commercial break. She stayed there until there were two categories remaining in the Jeopardy round, and then she flourished and even had the lead in the Double Jeopardy round, thanks in part to finding the two Daily Doubles and answering them correctly: Shakespeare’s Women: “She says of her husband, ‘His unkindness may defeat my life, but never taint my love.’ She was right.”* (Carol is a high school librarian, and that had to help with this category and with Final Jeopardy.)
And in the category Mountains: “The name of this sacred mountain is said to be derived from the Ainu word for ‘fire.'”*
Going into Final Jeopardy, Mike had the lead with $16400, Carol had $15400, and champ Ray had $9200. The Final Jeopardy category was Novelists: “His great-granddad wrote the best-seller ‘White Rose of Memphis,’ a city 40 miles north of the county in which he was raised.”* All three contestants got the right answer, but Mike wagered $14401 to Carol’s $5674, and he became the new champion.
Does it bother anyone else when contestant’s do these weird, meaningless-to-everyone-else wagers? I mean, why wager such an odd number? I think contestants shouldn’t waste their opportunity and should be serious about wagering for the win. I mean, would you rather tell your own acquaintances about the relevance of some weird wager you made, or would you rather have the whole country recognize you as a Jeopardy!champion? In this case, even if Carol would’ve wagered everything, she would’ve lost because Mike wagered for the win. But still. She didn’t do everything she could have done.
I was tearing off pages from my Jeopardy! page-a-day calendars (one from this year and one from last year) when I thought the clues might be fun to put on the blog. What Jeopardy! fan has ever seen enough clues, after all?
So here are two. Correct questions will be on the next entry:
American Literature; Final Jeopardy clue: “This 1854 series of essays on self-reliance was subtitled or, Life in the Woods.”
Notorious (Hey, that was the Final Jeopardy category on yesterday’s episode!); “In the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929, seven members of this man’s gang were shot dead.”
Finally, I am going to miss blogging on the next few days due to other commitments. (Still going to watch the show, of course!) I expect to blog next about Friday’s episode.
*Desdemona, Mount Fuji, Faulkner