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Season 29

The silent treatment

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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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I’d be pleased to update the ToC list for Tim Anderson. Is it gonna happen?
Okay, I typed that before I knew that a Catholic priest was playing today. I guess I can hope for a tie. Also, if I’d known he was a priest I’d have called him “Father” in my list yesterday. When I look at his Howdy picture now on the J! site, I see he has his hands folded in prayer. He does it in the video too.
I’m at my folks’ today. I had a feeling we’d be out when Jeopardy! was on, so I set up the tape. It worked, but I’d muted the TV while I set it up…and apparently one can’t bring the sound back when playing the tape. I’d watched the show this way before, and I think it’s happened once since then but I can’t be bothered to find it.

Tim

Judy Wang

Fr. Bill Matheny

I got this triple-stumper in End of the Alphabet: “Jacob Zuma has been president of this country since 2009.”
Tim disappointed me by seeming to guess twice before the first break, and negging as a result. He got 6 right too though, and arrived at the first break with 2600. Judy too had gotten 6 right and had 2200, and we had yet to hear from Father.
He seemed to find his category in A Round of Gulf Coast. He got 6 right by the time Tim found the Daily Double in Another Black Friday. Mr. Trebek said, “And now we have a pretty close game.” Father then had 3400. Tim had gotten another one wrong and 4 right and had 4000. Judy had gotten one right and had 3000. Tim wagered only 1000 on this easy clue: “January 13, 1939: Record summer heat sparks ‘bushfires’ that ravage millions of acres in this country.” Tim too a while but he got it right. Then I got this triple-stumper in File: “Last name of Mrs. Basil E., whose ‘mixed-up files’ were the subject of a Newbery medal-winning children’s book.” Judy negged on it, and ended the round with 2000.
Tim found the first Daily Double of Double Jeopardy, in The Monroe Doctrine. Mr. Trebek said he’d moved into a “fairly substantial lead.” He’d gotten 4 right in the round and had 7800. Father had gotten one right and had 4200. Judy still had 2000. Tim wagered just 1200 on this clue: “James K. Polk cited the doctrine in getting sole control from Britain of this territory below the 49th parallel.” I was way off on this one, and Tim got it wrong too.
Judy looked like she was picking clues apathetically, but I believe she was searching for a Daily Double. Father found it eventually though, in Biology (which is where Judy had been looking). Mr. Trebek said there was less than a minute to go. There were 4 clues left. Father had gotten 4 right and one wrong since the last Daily Double, and had 8200. Judy had gotten 4 right and 3 wrong and had 2400. Tim had gotten 7 right and had 15400. Luckily this was not Father’s category, he said. I wanted him to wager small for a better chance of having more than half Tim’s total at the end of the round. After what felt like quite a bit of thought (though I don’t have sound), he wagered 1000 on this clue: “Appropriately, the name of this bone is from the Latin for ‘to chew.'” I got it right but Father got it wrong.
He went for a 2000 clue then in Shakespeare Before & After, so it was bound to be tough. It was a triple-stumper. The next clue was a triple-stumper too, and I got it. In the same category: “A ‘bird’ who habitually stays up late watching the story of Viola & Orsino.” The last two clues were left covered. The scores remained the same, then: Tim 15400, Father 7200 and Judy 2400. That’s right, Tim’s got a lock on the game.
The Final Jeopardy category was American Literature. This was the clue: “This 1884 novel begins in the fictional town of St. Petersburg & ends in Pikesville, 1,100 miles down the Mississippi.” Judy got it wrong and lost 2399. Father got it wrong and lost 2300. I was glad he had the presence of mind to wager considering how much Judy would have if she doubled. Tim got it right and added 600. Here’s an update to the ToC list:

1. Jim Coury (College Champ)
2. Drew Horwood $138,100 (8 wins)
3. Joshua Brakhage $103,205 (5 wins)
4. Rebecca Rider $101,600 (5 wins)
5. Mike Lewis $102,800 (4 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)
9. Tim Anderson $56,001 (3 wins)

My Coryat today was 22200 (25800 without negs).

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