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Season 34

Today’s Final Jeopardy – November 8, 2017

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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)
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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 19th Century Poets) for Quarterfinal #3 in the 2017 Tournament of Champions, on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 (Season 34, Episode 43):

In 1824 he was refused burial in Westminster Abbey for “questionable morality”; in 1969 he got a memorial stone there

(correct response beneath the contestants)

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Today’s contestants:

David Clemmons, an 11th grade U.S. history teacher from Fort Worth, Texas

David Clemmons on the 2017 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions

Alan Lin, a software engineer from Riverside, California

Alan Lin on the 2017 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions

Austin Rogers, a bartender from New York, New York

Austin Rogers on the 2017 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions

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George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (Lord Byron) is certainly one of the best-known British poets of the early 19th century. Best known for works like Don Juan (famously pronounced “JOO-an”) and “She Walks in Beauty”, he caused a scandal when he became involved with Lady Caroline Lamb (who once described Byron as “mad, bad, and dangerous to know”). This was one of many of Byron’s very public relationships. The Westminster Abbey website refers to this as “open profligacy” which caused the failure to commemmorate Byron at Poet’s Corner until 1969. Instead, his body is buried in Nottinghamshire.

Lord Byron's commemorative stone at Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, part of Final Jeopardy on November 8, 2017.

Funny story: according to reports from the audience of this game, they actually had to re-shoot Alex’s opening to the game, because Alex referred to Alan as a College champion. Lilly Chin and Sam Deutsch are the College Champions in this tournament, but it does not surprise me that Alex thinks Alan is that young, as Alan Lin’s age (he was not yet 25 during his original run) was a popular search topic in late April and early May during his original games.

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

Scores going into Final:
Alan $19,605
Austin $8,000
David $1,400

Tonight’s results:
David $1,400 – $1,400 = $0 (Who is Longfellow?)
Austin $8,000 + $8,000 = $16,000
Alan $19,605 + $5 = $19,610 (Automatic semifinalist)

Alan Lin, today's Jeopardy! winner (for the November 8, 2017 episode.)

Automatic Semifinalists:
Monday: Buzzy Cohen, $30,000 ($16,400, $8,400)
Tuesday: Jason Sterlacci, $23,000 ($18,800, $5,000)
Wednesday: Alan Lin, $19,610 ($19,605, $8,800)
Thursday:
Friday:
Wild Card standings:
1) Pranjal Vachaspati $16,401 ($15,000, $5,400), 99.994% to advance
2) Austin Rogers $16,000 ($8,000, $600), 99.677% to advance
3) Lilly Chin $12,000 ($12,800, $2,000), 78.343% to advance
4) Tim Aten $11,500 ($14,000, $5,600), 32.580% to advance
5) Hunter Appler $1,400 ($1,400, $1,200)
6) David Clemmons $0 ($1,400, $-200)
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Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Alan $8,800
Austin $600
David -$200

Opening break taken after: 15 clues

Daily Double locations:
1) WORDS FROM NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES $400 (24th pick)
David 1200 -1200 (Alan 7400 Austin 400)
2) BOATS & SHIPS $1200 (7th pick)
Austin 3400 -3400 (Alan 10800 David -200)
3) YOU’LL STOP AT “NOTHING” $1200 (28th pick) ($800 remaining)
Alan 18800 +5 (Austin 8000 David 1400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -200

Game Stats:
Alan $20,800 Coryat, 27 correct, 3 incorrect, 49.12% in first on buzzer
Austin $11,400 Coryat, 14 correct, 3 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer
David $2,600 Coryat, 7 correct, 4 incorrect, 14.04% in first on buzzer
Combined Coryat Score: $34,800
Lach Trash: $12,000 (on 10 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $7,200

Alan Lin, stats to date:
176 correct
17 incorrect
37.11% in first on buzzer (167/450)
9/12 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $18,205)
6/8 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $16,525

Austin Rogers, stats to date:
349 correct
46 incorrect
22/28 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $106,100)
13/14 in Final Jeopardy
41.48% in first on buzzer (326/786)
Average Coryat: $17,700

David Clemmons, stats to date:
84 correct
14 incorrect
2/5 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$200)
4/5 in Final Jeopardy
28.98% in first on buzzer (82/283)
Average Coryat: $11,640

Miscellaneous:

  • Thanks to Mark Barrett for providing me with a full chart of this game.

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