Today’s Final Jeopardy – Tuesday, November 22, 2022

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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 12: S42 E98 (January 21, 2026)
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August 17: S42 E101 (January 26, 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 Musical Theater) for Tuesday, November 22, 2022 (Season 39, Game 52):

The pair at the center of tumult in this long-running show were originally going to be a Jewish girl & a Catholic boy

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:

Etienne Lepine, a software engineer from Lafayette, Colorado

David Stiasny, a pediatrician from Highland Park, Illinois

Cris Pannullo, a customer success operations manager from Ocean City, New Jersey (11-day total: $356,702)

Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:

The Tournament of Champions is over, as Jeopardy! returns to regular play. Fortunately, its homepage had the important contestant information on it—and the dead tree New York Times had a fresh Clue of the Day. I’m sure the website will return to its normal self by the end of the week. Cris Pannullo returns as an 11-day champion after an exactly two-month taping layoff; he won his first eleven games on three consecutive days (August 8–10), while the remainder of this week’s episodes appear to have been taped on October 10. (The taping times as per On Camera Audiences, with the “afternoon” session starting at 1:00 instead of the usual 2:00, certainly appear to imply a four-episode taping week and not a five.) Today’s challengers are Chicago-area pediatrician Dave Stiasny and Colorado’s Etienne Lepine.

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Correct response: What is West Side Story?

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Jerome Robbins’s first envisioning of the famous musical West Side Story was actually “East Side Story”—a story, set during Easter/Passover, with a Jewish girl as “Juliet” and an Italian Catholic as “Romeo”, set in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. However, the project got shelved when they realized that it was too similar to the 1920s show Abie’s Irish Rose, and with gang turf wars in the headlines, it got recentered to feature rival gangs, the Jets and the Sharks, and a Polish Catholic man and a Puerto Rican woman.

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Game Recap:

Jeopardy! Round:

(Categories: Health & Medicine; Soccer’S World Cup In The 21St Century; Rhyming Phrases; Who Lives In…; A Pineapple; Under The “C”)

The opening part of the game was dominated by Cris and David, the two of them went head-to-head, barely letting Etienne get in! Things turned a little bit when David got the Daily Double incorrect and Cris had double David’s score after 30 clues.

Statistics at the first break (15 clues):

Cris 9 correct 0 incorrect
David 6 correct 0 incorrect
Etienne 0 correct 0 incorrect

Statistics after the Jeopardy round:

Cris 13 correct 0 incorrect
David 12 correct 1 incorrect
Etienne 4 correct 0 incorrect

Double Jeopardy! Round:

(Categories: That Was Quite A Year; Stories Of The South; Rsvp To My Political Party; Buildings; Batman Villains; Vocabulary Words)

Etienne doubled up through the first Daily Double; Cris found the last one on clue 14 and added $5,000 to nearly put the game away. From there, David played gamely, but couldn’t break Cris’s runaway. Going into the Final, Cris had $29,400, David $10,400, and Etienne $8,400.

Statistics after Double Jeopardy:

Cris 27 correct 0 incorrect
David 18 correct 1 incorrect
Etienne 9 correct 0 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 12 (0 today).

Only Etienne got Final correct today, but Cris had enough before Final to take down win #12. He’ll go for 13 tomorrow!

Tonight’s Game Stats:

Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Tuesday, November 22, 2022 Jeopardy! by the numbers:

Scores going into Final:

Cris $29,400
David $10,400
Etienne $8,400

Tonight’s results:

Etienne $8,400 + $8,400 = $16,800 (What is West Side Story?)
David $10,400 – $6,401 = $3,999 (What is Fiddler on the Roof?)
Cris $29,400 – $5,221 = $24,179 (What is Toni + Tina’s Wedding) (12-day total: $380,881)

Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:

Cris $8,800
David $4,400
Etienne $1,200

Opening break taken after: 15 clues

Daily Double locations:

1) WHO LIVES IN… $1000 (clue #17)
David 5400 -2600 (Cris 7400 Etienne 0)
2) RSVP TO MY POLITICAL PARTY $800 (clue #5)
Etienne 2400 +2400 (Cris 12000 David 4800)
3) THAT WAS QUITE A YEAR $1600 (clue #14, $19200 left on board)
Cris 17200 +5000 (David 4800 Etienne 7600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 81

Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:

J! Round:
Cris 4 4 3 4 4 3 4 5 3 3
David 5 5 4 3 5 5 5*
Etienne

DJ! Round:
Cris 4 3 4 3 5 4 3 4*
David 4
Etienne 1 2* 1 2 2

Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:

Cris 3.72
Etienne 1.60
David 4.50

Unplayed clues:

J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 12 (0.23 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles

Game Stats:

Cris $26,000 Coryat, 27 correct, 0 incorrect, 45.61% in first on buzzer (26/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 0 rebound opportunities)
Etienne $6,800 Coryat, 9 correct, 0 incorrect, 14.04% in first on buzzer (8/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 0 rebound opportunities)
David $13,000 Coryat, 18 correct, 1 incorrect, 31.58% in first on buzzer (18/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 0 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $45,800
Lach Trash: $7,200 (on 5 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $1,000

Cris Pannullo, career statistics:

359 correct, 26 incorrect
22/23 on rebound attempts (on 52 rebound opportunities)
47.35% in first on buzzer (322/680)
25/28 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $82,700)
7/12 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $25,933

David Stiasny, career statistics:

18 correct, 2 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 0 rebound opportunities)
31.58% in first on buzzer (18/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$2,600)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,000

Etienne Lepine, career statistics:

10 correct, 0 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 0 rebound opportunities)
14.04% in first on buzzer (8/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,400)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $6,800

Cris Pannullo, to win:

13 games: 91.744%
14: 84.171%
15: 77.222%
16: 70.847%
17: 64.998%
Avg. streak: 23.113 games.

Today’s interviews:

Etienne has two grandmothers who have lived past their 100th birthday.
David was a male model—for ugly Christmas sweaters.
Cris wagers in Final end in 221 because Feb. 21 is his girlfriend Heather’s birthday.

Andy’s Thoughts:

• With 359, Cris moves past Frank Spangenberg for 19th overall in terms of number of correct responses on the show. Chuck Forrest is 18th at 374.

• Today’s box score: November 22, 2022 Box Score.

Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:

(Scores: Cris $29,400 David $10,400 Etienne $8,400)

Cris: Bet no more than $8,599 and enjoy your victory! (Actual bet: $5,221)

David: Standard cover bet over Etienne is $6,401. (Actual bet: $6,401)

Etienne: Limit your bet to $4,399, that way, you’re guaranteed 2nd if David is incorrect and he covers you. (Actual bet: $8,400)

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