Today’s Final Jeopardy – Thursday, July 17, 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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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 American Novels) for Thursday, July 17, 2025 (Season 41, Game 224):

A critic described this novel as “A man from down South sitting in a manhole up North…& signifying about how he got there”

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:

Marisa Cohen, a magazine writer & editor from New York, New York

Chad Biele, a public relations professional from Atlanta, Georgia

Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (10-day total: $262,101)

Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:

Scott Riccardi joined the ranks of the superchampions yesterday with his 10^th victory, becoming the 18^th player to do so. Today, he faces off against Chad Biele and Marisa Cohen in an attempt to go for win #11.

Interestingly, none of the previous 10-time champions have lost in their 11^th game. (Friendly reminder that this an interesting historical curio but not statistically meaningful in any way. And yes, this is a deliberate callback to a Ken Jennings tweet of February 5, 2019.)

I would like to applaud the show for one thing that it did on their website and social media yesterday: on what would have been Cindy Stowell’s 50^th birthday, they put out a piece on their website honoring the late 6-time champion—certainly, it’s an excellent thing to have done, especially for the sake of potentially newer fans that wouldn’t have remembered Cindy’s run back in December 2016.

One random editorial housekeeping item this morning: I would also like to point out that the name of this publication is The Jeopardy! Fan, not Jeopardy! Fan, and it is acceptable to abbreviate things to TJF or TJ!F—I do endeavor to ask that I am referred to properly, and I also hope that others cease using either of those abbreviations to refer to other entities in the Jeopardy! space, in order to reduce reader confusion.

Correct response: What is Invisible Man? (by Ralph Ellison)

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.)

These words describing Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man were penned by Albert Murray, who wrote, “Invisible Man was par excellence the literary extension of the blues. It was as if Ellison had taken an everyday twelve-bar blues tune (by a man from down South sitting in a manhole up North singing and signifying about how he got there) and scored it for full orchestra.” The book itself details its narrator, an unnamed Black man, reflecting upon the various ways in which he has experienced social invisibility during his life, detailing his story from his teenage years into adulthood. It won the 1953 National Book Award for Fiction.

This Final Jeopardy clue could also provide an interesting insight into the show’s rulebook—much like I mentioned above in my editorial about how the leading The is important in the title of this website, the existence of the H.G. Wells novel The Invisible Man means that this is a rare case where the usual leading article rule does not apply—and the title must be exactly correct. Hopefully, none of our contestants today get tripped up by this.

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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:

Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Thursday, July 17, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:

Jeopardy! Round:

(Categories: Auntie Defamation League; Movie Titles In Italiano; Oh Dear, They Died; Nothing Compares 2 U; There’s Always A Time; When You Must Stand For Something)

Scott got off to an amazing start, doubling up through the Daily Double and giving 11 correct responses. At the interviews, the scores were Scott $9,400 Chad $1,400 Marisa -$400.

Statistics at the first break (15 clues):

Scott 11 correct 1 incorrect
Chad 2 correct 0 incorrect
Marisa 0 correct 1 incorrect

Today’s interviews:

Marisa is a Broadway superfan.
Chad is an ultramarathoner, training for the Leadville 100.
Scott connected with his future boss over Jeopardy during his interview.

Scott brought his correct response total to 19 while Marisa also had a good segment to sit second at halftime.

Statistics after the Jeopardy round:

Scott 19 correct 1 incorrect
Marisa 6 correct 1 incorrect
Chad 3 correct 0 incorrect

Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:

Scott $12,800
Marisa $2,400
Chad $1,800

Double Jeopardy! Round:

(Categories: A Hotel Most Unusual; Britishisms; Opera Characters; Fabrics & Materials; A Dose Of Math; “N”tertainment)

Chad found DD2 immediately, but fell back to $0 after an incorrect response. The rest of the round belonged to Scott, who got $4,000 from DD3, all six $2,000 level clues, and got to $40,000—a season high—going into Final Jeopardy.

Statistics after Double Jeopardy:

Scott 39 correct 2 incorrect
Marisa 10 correct 2 incorrect
Chad 4 correct 3 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 40 (0 today).

Scores going into Final:

Scott $40,000
Marisa $5,200
Chad -$2,000

Neither player got Final Jeopardy correct; unfortunately for Scott, he ventured $20,000, but he’s still an 11-day champion. He’ll go for win #12 tomorrow!

Tonight’s results:

Chad -$2,000 (By rule, did not participate in Final Jeopardy)
Marisa $5,200 – $712 = $4,488 (What is On the Road?)
Scott $40,000 – $20,000 = $20,000 (What is ?) (11-day total: $282,101)

Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:

Daily Double locations:

1) THERE’S ALWAYS A TIME $800 (clue #5)
Scott 2400 +2400 (Chad 0 Marisa 0)
2) BRITISHISMS $1600 (clue #1)
Chad 1800 -1800 (Scott 12800 Marisa 2400)
3) OPERA CHARACTERS $1600 (clue #5, $29600 left on board)
Scott 13600 +4000 (Chad 0 Marisa 3600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 39

Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:

J! Round:
Scott 3 4 5 3 4*
Chad
Marisa

DJ! Round:
Scott 3 4*
Chad 4* 3
Marisa 2

Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:

Scott 3.71
Marisa 2.00
Chad 3.50

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 $36,000 Coryat, 39 correct, 2 incorrect, 63.16% in first on buzzer (36/57), 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Marisa $5,200 Coryat, 10 correct, 2 incorrect, 19.30% in first on buzzer (11/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Chad -$200 Coryat, 4 correct, 3 incorrect, 8.77% in first on buzzer (5/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $41,000
Lach Trash: $6,400 (on 6 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $6,600
Lead Changes: 0
Times Tied: 0

Player Statistics:

Scott Riccardi, career statistics:

292 correct, 22 incorrect
18/18 on rebound attempts (on 45 rebound opportunities)
42.42% in first on buzzer (266/627)
13/19 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $30,000)
8/11 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $22,255

Chad Biele, career statistics:

4 correct, 3 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
8.77% in first on buzzer (5/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$1,800)
0/0 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: -$200

Marisa Cohen, career statistics:

10 correct, 3 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
19.30% in first on buzzer (11/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $5,200

Scott Riccardi, to win:

12 games: 72.398%
13: 52.415%
14: 37.947%
15: 27.473%
16: 19.890%
Avg. streak: 13.623 games.

Andy’s Thoughts:

• This is a reminder that in the opening round, failing to phrase in the form of a question is a warning offense, and is only a penalty in Double Jeopardy. Comments claiming the judges missed phrasing will not be accepted this evening.
• A $36,000 Coryat is tied for the 18th-best single-game Coryat score of all time.
• No wagering suggestions are posted due to today’s runaway game.
• Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.

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