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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First, in case you missed my previous post, there was an issue with leaving comments where I was not receiving them and thus could not publish them. This seems to have been resolved now. I hope you will resubmit your comments on previous posts! I would still love to see them.
On to today’s episode: We found out today what 2-day champ Jeff Johnson, who’d been identified as a “transcriber,” actually transcribes: “news shows and TV shows,” as Mr. Trebek put it. No wonder Jeff is Jeopardy! champion. I always thought it would be fun to be a closed captioner, and I’d still like to try it one day. If you don’t currently use your closed captioning, I recommend it. My family and I have had some hearty laughs from it. For example, during one tennis match we were watching, the closed captioner, obviously not a fan, referred to a phantom let as a “fat up left” and the Bryan Brothers as “the Brine Brothers.”
Did you wonder what response the judges were looking for after J.R. Lind (yes, lanky) responded “horse tack” to this clue in Parts of a Whole?: “Cheek strap, snaffle rein.” Mr. Trebek looked at the judges, who decided to accept it, but he didn’t say what they wanted. I think “bridle.”
At the beginning of Double Jeopardy, Jeff was in third place at 2200 and thus selected first again. I believe he only answered one clue in that round until there were the equivalent of two categories remaining. When stay-at-home mom Felicia Ko found the first Daily Double of the round, she had 13000, J.R. had 10200, and Jeff had 3200. It felt a little desperate (but maybe it wasn’t!) when Jeff skipped to the bottom of the board and selected a 2000 clue. But the match felt more competitive after that. At the end of the round, Jeff had 10600, Felicia had 14200, and J.R. had 14600.
This was the Final Jeopardy clue, in American Politicians: “Frank Sinatra came out of retirement to sing their praises; “They’re both unique…the Quaker & the Greek.”* Coincidentally, J.R. had mentioned one of these names in his interview with Mr. Trebek after the first commercial break. Furthermore, after I looked him up on Twitter, I learned this “newspaper reporter” covers politics for the Nashville Post. Naturally, he answered this clue correctly, and so did the other two. Also no big surprise, J.R. wagered more than 13000. He needed to anyway in order to win if Felicia doubled her score. So he is your new champ, and with a healthy haul. I hope he can make it at least two.
*Nixon and Agnew