Weekend Jeopardy! Recap – December 6 & 7, 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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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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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Places In The American Past) for December 6-7, 2025 (Season 41, Game 158):

It’s the building where the Stax Records classic “Knock On Wood” was written but it’s remembered for other reasons

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:

Brenden Monroe, a senior game producer from Seattle, Washington

Denise LeBlanc-Bock, an architect from Santa Rosa Beach, Florida

Andrew Hayes, a law student originally from Tupelo, Mississippi (5-day total: $117,804)

Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:

Your Jeopardy weekend game this weekend takes us back to Andrew Hayes’s sixth game, where he looked to pick up victory #6 against Brenden Monroe & Denise LeBlanc-Bock.

Meanwhile, I’d like to revisit yesterday’s game, specifically the “two credited correct responses” situation and how a lot of viewers think it’s inherently unfair. I would posit that these viewers are looking at the situation too narrowly, with just an eye to that specific situation, and not the rulebook as a whole. The rulebook contains an analogous opposite situation—chiefly, if a response is disallowed after a stoppage or is taken away later, opposing players lose the opportunity to rebound. Thus, in my viewpoint, due to this analogous opposite situation, the entirety of the rule is ultimately fair to all involved. This also reinforces the point that complaints about yesterday’s outcome on social media—especially when they are amplified to hundreds of publications across the country through both news syndication agreements and outright recap plagiarism—need to be handled before contestants are left feeling that people are calling their victories into doubt. (And yes, contestants have been left feeling disappointed in the past when victories are put into doubt.)

Correct response: What is the Lorraine Motel?

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.)

Now the location of the National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis’s Lorraine Motel was the site where, on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. The Lorraine also housed a number of prominent recording artists when they would be recording music at Stax Records in Memphis, explaining its tie-in to the music industry.

For what it’s worth, with regard to all of the complaints regarding difficulty that happened when this clue initially aired, I still believe those complaints are unfounded. One of the reasons why a trivia question is written is because the writer thinks the players—in this case, both players in the game and the viewing audience at home—should know the answer and should learn about the subject. I would say that the Lorraine Motel is an important location in Black history and civil rights, and thus, it’s inherently a location that all Americans should know.

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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the December 6-7, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:

Note: If you’d like to see the full statistics from this game, check out the original recap, from April 16, 2025.

Game Recap:

Andrew Hayes had no intention of letting anyone get in his way of picking up victory #6 in this one, as he went 5-for-5 in one category and 4-for-5 in two others in Double Jeopardy, picking up 19 correct on the second board and falling just one correct response short of the $30,000 Coryat mark for the game.

While the aforementioned Final Jeopardy dropped Andrew’s score to $20,000 for the game, he still had a very healthy 6-game total.

Scores going into Final:

Andrew $28,800
Brenden $6,600
Denise $5,200

Tonight’s results:

Denise $5,200 – $1,401 = $3,799 (What is Love U <3 Fam)
Brenden $6,600 – $3,801 = $2,799 (What is ? Hi Zinnia!)
Andrew $28,800 – $8,800 = $20,000 (What is Ford’s Theatre?) (6-day total: $137,804)

Game Stats:

Andrew $29,800 Coryat, 33 correct, 4 incorrect, 57.89% in first on buzzer (33/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Denise $5,200 Coryat, 8 correct, 1 incorrect, 15.79% in first on buzzer (9/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Brenden $6,600 Coryat, 12 correct, 3 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57), 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $41,600
Lach Trash: $5,200 (on 5 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $7,200
Lead Changes: 3
Times Tied: 1

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