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Season 38

Today’s Final Jeopardy – Monday, September 27, 2021

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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)
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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 Rock Legends) for Monday, September 27, 2021 (Season 38, Game 11):

A new studio album in 2020 gave him a top 5 album in 6 consecutive decades, his first in 1975

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s contestants:

Angélica Wilcox, an AV service support team lead from Kansas City, Kansas

Angelica Wilcox on Jeopardy!

Justin Stanley, a data scientist from Vancouver, Washington

Justin Stanley on Jeopardy!

Matt Amodio, a Ph.D student from New Haven, Connecticut (28-day total: $1,004,001)

Matt Amodio on Jeopardy!

Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: 28-day champion Matt Amodio goes for Win #29 today, having surpassed the $1 million mark after Friday’s big win. Amazingly, this is the first time that Matt has started a week with the same host that he had the previous week, with this being Mayim Bialik’s second week as host. Meanwhile, the Jeopardy! website has started having the same problems that it had in the James Holzhauer run. For some reason that I certainly can’t explain, the Jeopardy! web site only seems to be able to store six significant digits when it comes to a champion’s winnings, which means that a champion’s winnings somehow get rounded on their website once it passes the $1 million mark. While it’s a longstanding unfixed bug on their website, it’s another mark on their web team that also had difficulty earlier this season with contestant photographs.

For the benefit of new viewers who are just starting to become invested in Matt Amodio’s run, his choice to phrase every response with “What’s…” is perfectly acceptable per the rules of the show, and this also hasn’t been a relaxing of standards since the death of Alex Trebek. As I wrote about in 2016 (while Alex still was very much alive), the show has never cared about whether the phrasing is grammatically correct, even under Art Fleming in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Correct response: Who is Bruce Springsteen?

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When Letter to You was released in 2020 and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, rock legend Bruce Springsteen earned his 21st Top 5 album (17 of these were studio albums, 2 were compilation albums, and 2 were live albums) on that chart; Springsteen’s first Top 5 album was 1975’s Born to Run.

One thing that amused me about this Final Jeopardy! clue: both Christopher and Paula from last Wednesday’s game have spoken on Twitter about being Bruce Springsteen fans. I’m sure they’ll be wishing they got today’s Final instead of the one they got in their game!

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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!

Scores going into Final:
Matt $28,000
Justin $7,600
Angélica $2,800

Tonight’s results:
Angélica $2,800 – $2,787 = $13 (Who is Dylan?)
Justin $7,600 – $1,701 = $5,899 (Who is Bowie?)
Matt $28,000 + $5,000 = $33,000 (Who is Springsteen?) (29-day total: $1,037,001)

Matt Amodio, today's Jeopardy! winner (for the September 27, 2021 game.)

Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Matt $7,000
Justin $3,200
Angélica $0

Opening break taken after: 15 clues

Daily Double locations:
1) MOVIE TAGLINES $400 (clue #21)
Justin 1400 +1400 (Matt 7000 Angélica -600)
2) ELECTORAL COLLEGE COLLAGE $1600 (clue #1)
Angélica 0 +2000 (Matt 7000 Justin 3200)
3) IT’S A SAIL-EBRATION $1600 (clue #13, $16400 left on board)
Matt 15400 +5000 (Justin 3200 Angélica 0)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 232

Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 0 (0.00 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles

Game Stats:
Matt $24,600 Coryat, 30 correct, 4 incorrect, 56.14% in first on buzzer (32/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Justin $6,600 Coryat, 10 correct, 1 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Angélica $2,400 Coryat, 9 correct, 3 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $33,600
Lach Trash: $11,400 (on 11 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $9,000

Matt Amodio, career statistics:
930 correct, 94 incorrect
47/54 on rebound attempts (on 103 rebound opportunities)
53.51% in first on buzzer (877/1639)
54/63 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $206,000)
21/29 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $26,786

Justin Stanley, career statistics:
10 correct, 2 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,400)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $6,600

Angélica Wilcox, career statistics:
9 correct, 4 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $2,400

Matt Amodio, to win:
30 games: 91.570%
31: 85.459%
32: 78.607%
33: 72.512%
34: 67.062%
Avg streak: 41.573 games.

Andy’s Thoughts:

  • Regarding the Neuchâtel clue, only “Neuchâtel” fit the category of A 9-LETTER “N”OUN. “Neufchâtel” is 10 letters and is therefore incorrect (and correctly ruled incorrect by the judges.

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