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Season 26

The “wurst” response in Jeopardy! history?

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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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Okay, maybe not the worst….
If you missed Friday’s GSN episode of Jeopardy!, you missed quite a show. It was notable for how well one contestant did, and how poorly another one did. I recognized the guy who did well as soon as he appeared on the screen, which makes me think he’s got more wins ahead: Jason Richards from Maine. The other two contestants were 1-day returning champ Elizabeth Randisi from NY and Zeb Schobernd from Oregon.
Jason started off strong by sweeping the Colleges and Universities category, including this Daily Double: “Of the Ivy League colleges, this one is alphabetically first.”* Then he answered all but one clue correctly in the category Monuments: “The Iwo Jima monument on Parris Island represents the famous raising of the flag on this mountain.” By the first commercial break, Jason had $7400, Elizabeth had 600, and Zeb had -$1000, in part because he responded “What is Mount Everest?” to the Monuments clue above. What?! Okay, why not Mount St. Helens? Or Mountain Dew?
In the second half of the Jeopardy round, Zeb did something else unthinkable (or should I say awful) when he answered “awful” to this $800 clue in Do You Have the Munchies?: “Though it sounds like the most terrible food, it’s really just German for ‘sausage.'” At the end of the round, Elizabeth had $1600, Zeb -$1800, and Jason $12600. Ouch.
Movie Directors stumped everyone on 2 of the first 3 clues in the category when Jason added a cool $3000 to his total on this Daily Double: “This ‘Philadelphia Story’ director was patriotically named for Admiral George Dewey.” Jason went on to sweep Subatomic Mass Persuasion. Zeb missed the $2000 clue in the category: “In 1998 it was found that these particles that pass through everything at light speed do have mass.” He said “photons.” Jason did manage to answer a few clues correctly, though, and wound up on the plus side for Final Jeopardy. First, Jason (who else?) got a Daily Double and picked up $5500 in The Land Down Under: “Located in a national park, it’s about 1 1/2 miles long and rises 1,142 feet above the desert floor.” At the end of the round, Elizabeth had $6000, Zeb $1400, and Jason a staggering $37100. Yes, before Final Jeopardy! Something tells me I’m glad I didn’t play along with the contestants on this one.
All three contestants missed the Final Jeopardy clue, although all three were on the right track. Presidential Relatives: “He defended civil rights as a representative from Massachusetts’ 11th district from 1895-1901.” Monday should be fun!
Here are two more calendar clues. $1000 in “Dress”ed: “Walter Mosley penned this mystery about detective Easy Rawlins searching for a woman in post-World War II Los Angeles.” And for $1000 in Kick the Cannes: “In 2004, he became the first to win the Palme d’Or for a documentary since Jacques Cousteau in 1956.”

*Brown, Mount Suribachi, wurst, George Cukor, neutrinos, Ayers Rock, John Francis Fitzgerald

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