Today’s Final Jeopardy – Monday, July 14, 2025

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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)
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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)
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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 today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Awards) for Monday, July 14, 2025 (Season 41, Game 221):

In the 50-year history of “Saturday Night Live”, he’s the only cast member to have won an Oscar—& it wasn’t for a comedy

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:

Paul Swain, a tutor from Vancouver, Washington

Amanda Hopkins, an analytics manager originally from New Providence, New Jersey

Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (7-day total: $182,901)

Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:

Scott Riccardi enters today’s game as a 7-day champion; an average-sized win today would get him to the $200,000 mark, as Amanda Hopkins and Paul Swain attempt to stop him from getting there.

There are only two weeks left in the Jeopardy! season; the show goes into its usual 6-week rerun schedule on Monday, July 28. This is also a reminder that the misinformation and outrage machine known as the clickbait tabloids will want you to believe that this is unprecedented, too long, and the worst thing to ever happen, when in fact, Jeopardy! has had six weeks of reruns and 46 weeks of original programming since 1986–87, and has the longest season of any American game show. New episodes generally aren’t produced to air over this period because significantly fewer people are home to watch television at this time—the viewing audience naturally is smaller over the summer due to vacations and the extra daylight hours. (This also explains why the articles you might have seen the last couple of weeks about ratings are also deliberate misinformation on behalf of the tabloids—comparing March to June and declaring disaster is deliberate journalistic malpractice and is a wilful distortion of the statistics.)

Correct response: Who is Robert Downey, Jr.?

More information about Final Jeopardy:

(The following write-up is original content and is copyright 2025 The Jeopardy! Fan. It may not be copied without linked attribution back to this page.)

Now more than 20 years sober, Robert Downey Jr. was on Saturday Night Live in his early 20s, during what many consider to be one of the show’s worst seasons in the 1980s. He spent significant time in the 1990s and early 2000s in prison due to his drug abuse, but saw a career resurgence following his sobriety. His role as Tony Stark in the MCU earned him global recognition, and earned an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role as U.S. Atomic Energy Commission chair Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer.

To paraphrase what author Jason K. Pargin (who many might see on TikTok or Instagram Reels) said recently, if someone told many of you 25 years ago that Robert Downey, Jr. would be alive, sober, thriving, and in 2025 be the only former SNL cast member to win an Oscar, not many would believe you.

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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:

Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Monday, July 14, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:

Jeopardy! Round:

(Categories: The Previous World Leader; Words Of Weather; A Sticky Situation; “M”edical; Dough; Ray, Me)

Scott found the Daily Double, getting it correct and leading after 15 clues. At the first set of commercials, your scores were Scott $5,800 Paul $2,200 Amanda $1,600.

Statistics at the first break (15 clues):

Scott 5 correct 0 incorrect
Paul 4 correct 1 incorrect
Amanda 2 correct 0 incorrect

Today’s interviews:

Paul is a champion-level backgammon player.
Amanda has also been on TV in the countries of Georgia and Japan.
Scott is a big fan of arranging video game music.

Scott continued with the momentum he picked up before the break, giving 8 correct responses and taking a big lead into halftime.

Statistics after the Jeopardy round:

Scott 13 correct 0 incorrect
Amanda 6 correct 0 incorrect
Paul 7 correct 3 incorrect

Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:

Scott $9,000
Amanda $3,000
Paul $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round:

(Categories: In The World’s Fair Host City; More Than One Meaning; Fizzy Drinks; Billboard No. 1 Hits; Name The Author; This Category Is Fire)

Paul gave it a good shot, going for a True Daily Double when he found DD2 on clue 6, but an incorrect response decided this one. Scott gave 17 correct responses, brought his Coryat over $30,000, and cruised to a runaway.

Statistics after Double Jeopardy:

Scott 30 correct 1 incorrect
Paul 14 correct 5 incorrect
Amanda 7 correct 2 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 40 (0 today).

Scores going into Final:

Scott $34,200
Paul $3,600
Amanda -$200

Scott bet for $50,000—but was unable to come up with a correct response. Still, his 8-day total is above $200,000, and he’ll go for win #9 tomorrow.

Tonight’s results:

Amanda -$200 (By rule, did not participate in Final Jeopardy)
Paul $3,600 – $3,600 = $0 (Who is Bill Murray? <3 Blakely)
Scott $34,200 – $15,800 = $18,400 (Who is ?) (8-day total: $201,301)

Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:

Daily Double locations:

1) WORDS OF WEATHER $800 (clue #13)
Scott 2400 +2400 (Amanda 1600 Paul 1200)
2) FIZZY DRINKS $1200 (clue #6)
Paul 3800 -3800 (Scott 15000 Amanda 3000)
3) IN THE WORLD’S FAIR HOST CITY $1600 (clue #9, $22400 left on board)
Scott 18200 +4000 (Amanda 1000 Paul 0)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 22

Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:

J! Round:
Scott 3 4 5 3 5 5 4*
Amanda 3 4 5
Paul 4 3 4

DJ! Round:
Scott 5 3 3 4 3 4*
Amanda
Paul 4 3* 5†

† – selection in same category as Daily Double

Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:

Scott 3.92
Paul 3.83
Amanda 4.00

Unplayed clues:

J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 40 (0.18 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles

Game Stats:

Scott $30,200 Coryat, 30 correct, 1 incorrect, 47.37% in first on buzzer (27/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Paul $7,400 Coryat, 14 correct, 5 incorrect, 31.58% in first on buzzer (18/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Amanda -$200 Coryat, 7 correct, 2 incorrect, 12.28% in first on buzzer (7/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $37,400
Lach Trash: $7,600 (on 8 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $9,000
Lead Changes: 3
Times Tied: 1

Player Statistics:

Scott Riccardi, career statistics:

203 correct, 18 incorrect
13/13 on rebound attempts (on 34 rebound opportunities)
41.01% in first on buzzer (187/456)
7/13 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,600)
6/8 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $20,975

Amanda Hopkins, career statistics:

7 correct, 2 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
12.28% in first on buzzer (7/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/0 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: -$200

Paul Swain, career statistics:

14 correct, 6 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
31.58% in first on buzzer (18/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$3,800)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $7,400

Scott Riccardi, to win:

9 games: 61.787%
10: 38.176%
11: 23.588%
12: 14.574%
13: 9.005%
Avg. streak: 9.617 games.

Andy’s Thoughts:

• I can definitely see Paul getting some online heat today over the fact that he didn’t give Amanda a chance on the last clue of Double Jeopardy to get out of the hole.
• Today’s runaway game means no wagering suggestions will be posted.
• Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.

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