Today’s Final Jeopardy – Tuesday, July 22, 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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August 27: S42 E109 (February 5, 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 Languages in History) for Tuesday, July 22, 2025 (Season 41, Game 227):

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V is said to have quipped, “to God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, & to my horse” this

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:

Paul Ryan, a print & print marketing general manager from Weymouth, Massachusetts

Adriene Holland, a risk control manager from Powder Springs, Georgia

Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (13-day total: $362,901)

Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:

Yesterday saw Scott Riccardi pick up his second win of over $50,000 and his third Coryat score of over $30,000 en route to a dominant 13^th victory. Today, on what would have been Alex Trebek’s 85th birthday, he goes for win #14 over Adriene Holland and Paul Ryan as we get closer and closer to the end of Season 41.

I’ve seen a few people asking what would happen with Scott’s winnings if he was to win until Friday; as far as I am aware, in order to make it easiest to close the books on Season 41, Scott would receive a check for his Season 41 winnings, and then a second check with Season 42 winnings if he were to make it that far.

Correct response: What is German?

More information about Final Jeopardy:

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As Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V needed to speak many languages, but he still showed some biases. He had mastery of French and Spanish, using Spanish as his religious language (and not Italian or Latin) so as not to be seen as surrendering to the Pope. Obviously, saying that he would speak to animals in German would be seen as offensive to the Germans. Interestingly though, many Spaniards have reported online over the years that animals, especially “professional” ones, have been trained in German commands, presumably because it’s more terse than Spanish.

The witticism in today’s clue has certainly been attributed to Charles V by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels—and it has also potentially been attributed to Frederick the Great.

I will say that I think today’s Final Jeopardy does have a bit of a “you either know it or you don’t” quality to it, though. It’ll be interesting to see how it plays.

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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:

Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Tuesday, July 22, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:

Jeopardy! Round:

(Categories: Exodusters; Throwing Copper; Revising The Atlas; Beastly Endings; Put The Fries In The Bag; Bro)

Scott gave 9 correct responses, including the Daily Double, to jump into an early lead. At the interviews, the scores were Scott $7,800 Adriene $3,200 Paul $1,000.

Statistics at the first break (15 clues):

Scott 9 correct 0 incorrect
Adriene 4 correct 0 incorrect
Paul 2 correct 0 incorrect

Today’s interviews:

Paul is recently engaged; when he met his fiancée, they both had dogs with the same name.
Adriene had a bit of a hiking incident where she fell off a mountain and broke her arm.
Scott was the victim of “an oil change with a gaslighting included”.

Scott picked up another 7 correct after the break to extend his lead.

Statistics after the Jeopardy round:

Scott 16 correct 0 incorrect
Adriene 6 correct 0 incorrect
Paul 7 correct 0 incorrect

Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:

Scott $11,600
Adriene $3,800
Paul $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round:

(Categories: The Pulitzer Prize For Fiction; Statues Around The World; To Put It In Anthropological Terms; Millennials; On The Movie Soundtrack; Ends With 3 Consonants)

Adrienne found DD2 8 clues in; she bet just over half her score, though. Scott found DD3 very late; he bet enough to just about cement a runaway with a correct response, but correct responses on 6 of the last 8 clues did cement that runaway.

Statistics after Double Jeopardy:

Scott 30 correct 0 incorrect
Adriene 11 correct 0 incorrect
Paul 13 correct 1 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 40 (0 today).

Scores going into Final:

Scott $30,000
Adriene $12,400
Paul $9,800

Paul was the only player correct in Final Jeopardy, but Scott’s runaway makes him a 14-day champion! He’ll go for win #15 tomorrow.

Tonight’s results:

Paul $9,800 + $3,200 = $13,000 (What is German?)
Adriene $12,400 – $7,800 = $4,600 (What is English? Hi Erik + Grace!)
Scott $30,000 – $1,999 = $28,001 (What is English?) (14-day total: $390,902)

Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:

Daily Double locations:

1) EXODUSTERS $600 (clue #6)
Scott 2000 +2000 (Adriene 800 Paul 600)
2) MILLENNIALS $1200 (clue #8)
Adriene 5800 +3000 (Scott 16000 Paul 7400)
3) TO PUT IT IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL TERMS $800 (clue #22, $4000 left on board)
Scott 23200 +4000 (Adriene 12000 Paul 9000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 169

Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:

J! Round:
Scott 3 4 5 3*
Adriene 3
Paul 2

DJ! Round:
Scott 3 4 3 2 3 3 4 2 2*
Adriene 3* 4† 5 5†
Paul 3 5 4 5 4 5 2 4 5

† – selection in same category as Daily Double

Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:

Scott 3.15
Paul 3.90
Adriene 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 $25,400 Coryat, 30 correct, 0 incorrect, 49.12% in first on buzzer (28/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
Paul $9,800 Coryat, 13 correct, 1 incorrect, 24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 0 rebound opportunities)
Adriene $10,600 Coryat, 11 correct, 0 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
Combined Coryat Score: $45,800
Lach Trash: $7,400 (on 6 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $800
Lead Changes: 2
Times Tied: 0

Player Statistics:

Scott Riccardi, career statistics:

377 correct, 27 incorrect
19/19 on rebound attempts (on 56 rebound opportunities)
43.36% in first on buzzer (346/798)
19/25 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $49,000)
10/14 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $22,857

Adriene Holland, career statistics:

11 correct, 1 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $10,600

Paul Ryan, career statistics:

14 correct, 1 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 0 rebound opportunities)
24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,800

Scott Riccardi, to win:

15 games: 74.292%
16: 55.193%
17: 41.004%
18: 30.463%
19: 22.631%
Avg. streak: 16.890 games.

Andy’s Thoughts:

• Scott moves to 12th place in all-time regular play winnings and 30th place in terms of number of correct responses given on the show.
• I realize it might be out of their comfort zone, but challengers, when playing against super-champions, have to be prepared to play perfectly in order to beat them. That means they need to go all in on Daily Doubles and avoid clue selections where the Daily Double won’t be.
• Today’s runaway game means that no wagering suggestions will be posted.
• Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.

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