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Season 29

Thank God it’s Thursday on Friday

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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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Just don’t ask why this Thursday recap is publishing now. It’s kind of fun to be publishing at this odd time, though. Maybe I’ll attract people that otherwise wouldn’t see this.
Gabe Gales defends for the first time today.
Anybody else say “Diaries” on this clue in Movie Title Overlaps: “The Rum _____ of a Wimpy Kid.” It was my first neg of many, as you’ll see when you get to my Coryat.
On the other hand, is it a sign of the apocalypse that I swept a Shakespeare category (Shakespeare – Act II, Scene I)? Darryl Campbell was “off and running” – so said Mr. Trebek – when he found the Daily Double there. He had gotten 7 right at and had 3800. Gabe and Laura Amundson had each gotten 2 right and had 1000 and 600 respectively. Darryl wagered 1200 on this clue: “Prospero my Lord shall know what I have done…so, King, go safely on to seek thy son.” Darryl got it too.
Laura got 2 more right when the first break arrived. She had 2000 then, while Gabe still had 1000 and Darryl had 5000. Gabe got 7 more right before the round ended, and had 5600 then. Laura got one more right and had 2600, and Darryl got 4 more right and had 6800.
Laura found the Daily Double in American Lives early in Double Jeopardy. She’d gotten 2 right and had 4600. Darryl had gotten one right and had 7200, and Gabe still had 5600. Laura wagered 4000 on this clue: “Lois Sharp’s biography of this 20th century woman is subtitled ‘First Lady of American Liberalism.'” She got it right, and quickly.
Jaw-dropper of the day, that this was a triple-stumper in Words of Stevie Wonder: “This title, ‘I have someone who needs me, someone I’ve needed so long.” I swept this category too.
Gabe found the next Daily Double in Colleges with Mass. Appeal. He was thrilled to choose that clue, too. He’d gotten 4 right and one wrong since Laura’s Daily Double, and had 10400. Laura had gotten 6 right and had 14200, and Darryl had gotten 8 right and had 16800. There were 2 clues left on the board after this one. Gabe wagered 3000 on this clue: “The motto of this university named for a Supreme Court justice is ‘Truth, even unto its innermost parts.'” I got this but Gabe didn’t.
Gabe got one of the last two clues, and no one got the last one. Laura negged on it though. At the end of the round then, Gabe had 8200, Laura had 12200 and Darryl had 16800.
The Final Jeopardy category is Transportation. This is the clue: “Susan B. Anthony said this new fad had ‘done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.” I got this right. Gabe got it wrong. He lost 1300. Laura got it right and added 8195. Darryl got it wrong and lost 7601.
So Laura wins, and uh…we’ve already seen her play again today.
My Coryat today was 20200 (26200 without negs).

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