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Season 29

Jim Dandy

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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)
(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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This is it: the last day of the College Tournament. For my average Coryat this tournament to be higher than the last one’s, my score needs to be a mere 43600 today. Yeah.
Yesterday, Kristen earned 10000, Trevor earned 11000 and Jim earned 8600. They changed shirts for this episode:

Kristen Jolley

Jim Coury

Trevor Walker

All the contestants were active in the segment before the first break. Kristen got 5 right and one wrong, and had 2800 then. Trevor had gotten 6 right and one wrong, and had 2600. Jim had gotten 3 right and had 1800.
Mr. Trebek said he was gonna let the contestants choose what to talk about, but he didn’t let Jim choose!
Did it bug anyone else that Kristen threw away 800 on the joke response of “vacuum,” for this clue in Famous Firsts?: “In 1951 the Univac I became the U.S.A.’s first commercially available one of these.” I swept the category, by the way.
And I got this triple-stumper in Metropolitan Partners: “This city-Metairie-Kenner.” (Remember Kevin Marshall?)
The Daily Double of the round was the second-to-last clue, and Jim found it in The Work of the Clinton Foundation. He’d gotten 6 right and one wrong since the break, and had 5400. Trevor had gotten 2 right and had 3000. Kristen had gotten 3 right and the one wrong, and had 3600. Jim wisely wagered it all on this clue, read by President Clinton: “We’ve supplied affordable fertilizer & better quality seeds to local farmers, improving crop yields & crop prices to help this country emerge from the civil war & genocide of the 1990s.”

Jim got it right. The last clue of the round was a triple-stumper.
I got this triple-stumper in Invertebrates: “We pray that you know the name of this family of insects is from the Greek for ‘prophet.'”
Does anyone know what the appropriate response should’ve been here, in Science Fiction?: “In 2010’s ‘Blackout,’ people with this academic job are sent back from 2060 to do fieldwork in World War II.” Trevor’s “college professors” was negged, and Mr. Trebek took a long time to accept Jim’s “history professors.” Probably because the next clue was the Daily Double, in the same category. Jim then had gotten 5 right and had 15600. Trevor had gotten 4 right and the one wrong and had 7000. Kristen had gotten 3 right and had 6000. He wagered 5000 on this clue: “This 1954 Richard Matheson novel has inspired such films as ‘The Last Man on Earth’ & a 2007 Will Smith movie.” I said what Jim did and felt good about it! We were wrong though. There were 3 full categories plus one clue left.
Kristen found the next Daily Double in Biblical Geography, though I think Jim was looking for it. Kristen got the one preceding correct of course, giving her 7600. Jim still had 10600 and Trevor still had 7000. Kristen wagered 3000 on this clue. (You have to read rather than listen for the beginning of the clue. Sorry. Not to be negative but it was a big pain-in-the-butt to put it here at all.):

I was stunned that this was a triple-stumper, in Dorm Debates: “This activity AKA bussing — eyes open or closed? We need more research.” Mr. Trebek gave the less-than-a-minute warning here. We didn’t see 3 clues in Will Ferrell Movies by Quote, and I for one am relieved. At the end of the round then, Kristen had gotten 4 right and one wrong after her Daily Double and had 8600. Trevor had gotten 2 right and had 8200. Jim had gotten 2 right also and had 14200.
The Final Jeopardy category was The Civil War. This was the clue: “The last of the 11 southern states to secede from the union, it borders 6 of them.” I said what Kristen did and again, felt good about it. Enough so that I didn’t try to come up with anything else. We were wrong, though. Jim was the only one to get this right. He added 11789 today, while Trevor lost 3601 and Kristen lost 4199. Jim’s two-day total was 34589, Trevor’s was 15599, and Kristen’s was 14401. Did you guys hear Mr. Trebek go, “Back to our regular shows tomorrow. MONDAY!”
So we’ll see Jim in the next ToC. I think he’ll be a force to be reckoned with. Here’s the updated list but first, my Coryat today was only 16800 (19400 without negs). So my average this time was *gulp* 23920. Furthermore, I checked back and didn’t get a single Final Jeopardy right this week. The jboard poll’s gonna suck for me.

1. Jim Coury
2. Drew Horwood $138,100 (8 wins)
3. Joshua Brakhage $103,205 (5 wins)
4. Rebecca Rider $101,600 (5 wins)
5. Adam Holquist $76,299 (3 wins)
6. Sara Garnett $75,403 (3 wins)
7. Salvo Candela $66,195 (3 wins)
8. John Anneken $60,112 (3 wins)

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