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Season 42
Today’s Final Jeopardy – Wednesday, April 22, 2026
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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 20th Century Phrases) for Wednesday, April 22, 2026 (Season 42, Game 163):
Before this 2-word term came to mean a type of mysterious object, trapshooters used it to refer to their targets
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Ruey Yen, a baseball usher, sports blogger & physicist from Los Angeles, California
Suzanne Perla Blank, a retired stay-at-home mom originally from Queens, New York
Jamie Ding, a bureaucrat & law student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey (28-day total: $774,601)
Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Jamie Ding has moved to 28 victories after a bit of a scare last night—one where the only debatable visible piece of orange he wore was a pocket square that still looked more red than orange to me. Certainly, after what was likely seen as Jamie’s worst game statistically, I’d be wanting to make sure I wore visible orange from here on out. In any case, we have Ruey Yen and Suzanne Perla Blank as our challengers today as Jamie looks to get to his 29th victory. One thing is for certain: Jamie will pass the 900-correct-response mark in today’s game.
In another Jamie stat, yesterday’s game saw only the 9th instance in 28 games where Jamie failed to give a correct response in a category. (For comparison’s sake, Ken’s “0 correct in a category” count was 12 through 28 games.)
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Correct response: What is flying saucer?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
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In 2015, when The New York Times was looking back upon the origin of various terms and when they entered the public consciousness, Mark Bulik wrote, “the first times they showed up, they were being shot at. But those references to ‘flying saucers’ appeared in articles about skeet shooting, and came from writers seeking a synonym for the clay disks.” But come the UFO craze of 1947, the term gained a different meaning: as a synonym for the unidentified flying objects that many Americans felt were invaders from outer space.
Word/phrase origin Final Jeopardy clues always tend to play on the more difficult side on the show; it would not surprise me if this only saw 0 or 1 correct responses.
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Game Recap:
I think our players may have taken the instruction of “Do Not Pick This Category” a little too much too heart; our players eventually went there, with 4 of the 5 clues in that category left on the board until the end, and of course the game’s final Daily Double was sitting there. It was Suzanne who found it with a chance to break Jamie’s runaway with a correct response, but an incorrect response ensured that Jamie had win #29 sewn up before we got to the sixty-first clue of today’s game. Kudos to her wagering, though, in any case.
Final Jeopardy turned out to be a Triple Stumper as Jamie isn’t quite at $800,000. He’ll get a chance to get over that mark tomorrow.
Scores going into Final:
Jamie $20,200
Ruey $7,600
Suzanne $100
Tonight’s results:
Suzanne $100 – $100 = $0 (What is a black hole?)
Ruey $7,600 – $2,400 = $5,200 (What is ?)
Jamie $20,200 – $1,199 = $19,001 (What is…clay pigeon???) (29-day total: $793,602)
Game Stats:
Jamie $19,800 Coryat, 28 correct, 3 incorrect, 52.63% in first on buzzer (30/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Ruey $7,600 Coryat, 11 correct, 1 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Suzanne $4,600 Coryat, 9 correct, 3 incorrect, 15.79% in first on buzzer (9/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $32,000
Jamie Ding, to win:
30 games: 80.353%
31: 64.566%
32: 51.881%
33: 41.688%
34: 33.497%
Avg. streak: 33.090 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
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