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Season 29

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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)
(Source: Bell Fibe TV program guide)

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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Andy here for the semifinals of the Teacher’s Tournament! No pictures for me today, unfortunately!

Jeanie’s been having such difficulty this week with the Blogger app on her new phone, with it deleting posts on her without any input on her part! She’s asked me to let you know that she’ll be repairing yesterday’s post soon!

Your first gang of semifinalists: John Hines, Whitney Collins, and Michael Farabaugh!

J! round categories: AMERICAN MOVIE IDOL; 5 SHADES OF GR(E/A)Y; MY PHONE CAN DO THAT; ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES; THE MAYA; “TW”, EH?

It really felt as if the contestants were hopping all over the categories to open this game, but we surprisingly got more than halfway through the round before the first break! That said, the 16th clue (the last one before the break) was the Daily Double! (under THE MAYA $800). John saw it. Scores:

John $2,800
Michael $2,600
Whitney $1,400

John bet $1,200. His clue: Mayan ruins have revealed workplaces for crafting with this shiny rock formed by the rapid cooling of lava. His correct response brought his score at the opening break to $4,000.

One clue I was happy to see: (5 SHADES OF GREY $600): In 1909 the University of Toronto won the first Grey Cup in this sport — really glad this showed up Wednesday, as something similar was a key question in my sports trivia on Tuesday night!

All three players kept things pretty close through the back half of the opening round, leading to very competitive scores after 30! Your scores were:

Michael $5,600
John $5,400
Whitney $5,200

Judging by the comments I’m reading on Twitter from some of the other people I follow, the clues over this tournament have once again been slightly easier than regular play!

DJ! round categories: FUN WITH SCIENCE; TEACH ME A SONG; F. SCOTT FITZGERALD; THE MAP OF EUROPE; VERB-AL NAMES; BEFORE & AFTER

Those Before and After clues were certainly better than a lot of the ones that I had to face during that LearnedLeague MiniLeague a few weeks back! Whitney’s $2,000 rebound of Michael’s miss in this category gave her a brief lead!

Michael was able to rebound from that, and faced the round’s first Daily Double on the 13th clue of the round (FUN WITH SCIENCE $1600). Scores:

Michael $9,200
Whitney $9,200
John $6,200

Remember how I always say “Fortune favors the bold”? Michael was bold here, to the tune of $5,000.

His clue: If you’ve got a 1982 penny, it could be either mainly copper or mainly this material next to copper on the periodic table. His correct response gave him a $5,000 lead.

John and Whitney clawed back a little bit over the next few clues, but it was Whitney who got a chance to demonstrate some strategy on the final Daily Double (under F. SCOTT FITZGERALD $2,000). Scores:

Michael $15,000
Whitney $11,200
John $9,800

The $400 and $1600 clues were Triple Stumpers here and $800 and $1200 were gets for Whitney, leaving her with an interesting dilemma. On the one hand, you’re down $3,800. On the other, you’re at the bottom of a category that you’ve not demonstrated strength in. Whitney chose the clue value of $2,000 here. Do you think she should have bet more? Leave a comment!

Her clue: “Scott got this title from “Ode to a Nightingale”, where it precedes “and haply the queen-moon is on her throne”. Unfortunately, her incorrect response put her at $9,600

Michael and John pretty much split the last few clues between them.

Scores going into FJ!:

Michael $18,200
John $13,400
Whitney $10,400

FJ! category: US PRESIDENTS

FJ! clue: The only 2 presidents never to present a State of the Union address are William Henry Harrison & this man

Whitney 10400 – 10399 = 1
John 13400 – 13400 = 0
Michael 18200 – 8601 = 9599

Part of me hopes some smart-aleck student chooses to dissect their teacher’s wagering strategy in the classroom. You’d think a teacher going into this tournament would prepare for this by making the strategy a classroom exercise!

I’ll be back tomorrow with semifinal #2!

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