Pop Culture Jeopardy Recap – Tuesday, May 12, 2026

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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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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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Here’s the Pop Culture Jeopardy Final Jeopardy (in the category Song Origins) for Tuesday, May 12, 2026 (Season 2, Game 2):

This song grew out of a conversation with Sean Lennon & his friend, who argued that “nothing happened in the ’50s”

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s Pop Culture Jeopardy! contestants:

Powered By Double A, Aaron & Amanda

Presto Strange-O, Matt & Katherine

One Baddie After Another, Jonathan & McShane (1 win)

Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:

Episode #2 of this season of Pop Culture Jeopardy! features our defending champions in One Baddie After Another, taking on two new challenging teams in Powered By Double A and Presto Strange-O. If yesterday’s performance is any indication, it feels as though our current champions are more than capable of taking the maximum 5 victories; they picked up 32 correct responses, and even an incorrect Daily Double wasn’t enough to keep them from running away with the proceedings.

Correct response: What is “We Didn’t Start The Fire”?

More information about Final Jeopardy:

(The following write-up is original content and is copyright 2026 The Jeopardy! Fan. It may not be copied without linked attribution back to this page.)

Shortly after turning 40, Billy Joel was in a recording studio when he ran into Sean Lennon and a friend of Sean’s, both 21. The younger pair had just said “It’s a terrible time to be 21”, only to be met with Joel recounting the various issues of the late 1960s (like the Vietnam War). The retort? “You were a kid in the fifties and everybody knows that nothing happened in the fifties.” As a rebuttal, Joel turned the major news items of his lifetime—including much of the 1950s—into his late ’80s #1 hit “We Didn’t Start The Fire”.

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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:

Here’s the recap for Season 2, Episode 2:

Jeopardy! Round:

(Categories: TV Of The 2010s; I Am…What?; AI Slop Gave Me Brain Rot; Cartoon Crush Objects; Producer Tags; Unsolicited Flick Pics)

While it was Powered By Double A who found the Daily Double, this round was a battle between our champs and Presto Strange-O, and it was Matt & Katherine who led through 30. On the opening board, the Baddies went 3/5 in AI slop and flick pics, while Presto went 4/5 in cartoon crush objects and I Am…what?

Today’s interviews:

Powered By Double A met each other when Amanda kept laughing during Aaron’s stand-up set.
Presto Strange-O has been married for 13 years.
One Baddie After Another feels cautiously optimistic after win #1.

Statistics after the Jeopardy round:

Presto Strange-O 13 correct 1 incorrect
One Baddie After Another 11 correct 2 incorrect
Powered By Double A 3 correct 1 incorrect

Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:

Presto Strange-O 5,800
One Baddie After Another 5,200
Powered By Double A 1,400

Double Jeopardy! Round:

(Categories: Meet The Met Gala; Spanish & Spanglish; The Voice Behind The Line; There’s Some Horse In This House; Music On Ice; Netflix & Chiller)

One Baddie After Another took over in this round, finding both Daily Doubles in amongst their 19 correct responses as they cruised to a dominant runaway victory.

Statistics after Double Jeopardy:

One Baddie After Another 30 correct 2 incorrect
Presto Strange-O 19 correct 1 incorrect
Powered By Double A 7 correct 4 incorrect

Scores going into Final:

One Baddie After Another 34,200
Presto Strange-O 13,400
Powered By Double A -1,400

Our pair of Jonathans put the exclamation point on this one with a correct response in Final Jeopardy; they’ll go for win #3 tomorrow.

Tonight’s results:

Powered By Double A -1,400 (By rule, did not participate in Final Jeopardy)
Presto Strange-O 13,400 – 13,331 = 69 (What is Summer of 6)
One Baddie After Another 34,200 + 0 = 34,200 (What is We Didn’t Start the fire?) (Winner)

Current Overall Standings:

1. One Baddie After Another: 2 wins, 61,400 points

Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:

Daily Double locations:

1) TV OF THE 2010s 400 (clue #7)
Powered By Double A 600 -1000 (One Baddie After Another -400 Presto Strange-O 2400)
2) THERE’S SOME HORSE IN THIS HOUSE 1600 (clue #6)
One Baddie After Another 11600 +3000 (Presto Strange-O 5800 Powered By Double A 2600)
3) MEET THE MET GALA 1600 (clue #10, 20000 left on board)
One Baddie After Another 18200 +4800 (Presto Strange-O 5800 Powered By Double A 600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -48

Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:

J! Round:
One Baddie After Another 4 5 4
Presto Strange-O 3 5 3
Powered By Double A 2*

DJ! Round:
One Baddie After Another 4 5 3 4* 4 5† 4 4*
Presto Strange-O
Powered By Double A 3 4

† – selection in same category as Daily Double

Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:

One Baddie After Another 4.18
Presto Strange-O 3.67
Powered By Double A 3.00

Game Stats:

One Baddie After Another 29,600 Coryat, 30 correct, 2 incorrect, 47.37% in first on buzzer (27/57), 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Presto Strange-O 13,400 Coryat, 19 correct, 1 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57), 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Powered By Double A -400 Coryat, 7 correct, 4 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: 42,600
Lach Trash: 3,400 (on 3 Triple Stumpers)
Lead Changes: 6
Times Tied: 3

Player Statistics:

One Baddie After Another, career statistics:

64 correct, 4 incorrect
5/5 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
50.00% in first on buzzer (57/114)
3/4 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: 8,400)
2/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: 28,500

Presto Strange-O, career statistics:

19 correct, 2 incorrect
3/3 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: 13,400

Powered By Double A, career statistics:

7 correct, 4 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -1,000)
0/0 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: -400

Andy’s Thoughts:

• Due to today’s game being a runaway, wagering suggestions will not be posted.

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