Weekend Jeopardy! Recap – May 9 & 10, 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)
(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 World Leaders) for May 9-10, 2026 (Season 41, Game 76):

In 2009 this leader gave Barack Obama the book “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:

Jenifer Miller, a freelance web developer from Ann Arbor, Michigan

Sean Maguire, a commercial real estate manager from New York, New York

Laura Faddah, a manager from Memphis, Tennessee (2-day total: $17,000)

Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:

Laura Faddah’s run continues in the weekend encore presentations; this weekend’s game features Laura going for victory #3 against Sean Maguire and Jenifer Miller.

Going into this game, I had predicted that Ken was going to comment on Laura’s unorthodox wagering strategies; I was pleasantly surprised when this game originally aired that Ken only commented that Laura’s second game was only a “come-from-behind” victory.

Correct response: Who is Hugo Chávez?

More information about Final Jeopardy:

(The following write-up is original content and is copyright 2026 The Jeopardy! Fan. It may not be copied without linked attribution back to this page.)

This is certainly a Final Jeopardy where the circumstances have changed significantly between the original airing and the rerun airing!

Back in 2009, at the 5^th Summit of the Americas, Hugo Chávez (who served as the President of Venezuela from 1999 until 2013) gave a Spanish-language copy of Open Veins to Obama; the analysis of the impact of European settlement, imperialism, and slavery in Latin America, written by Eduardo Galeano, has been important as a reference for Latin American socialists.

Of course, this game originally aired in December 2024, about twelve and a half months prior to the Trump administration’s intervention in Venezuela, in which Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were captured, transported to the United States, and indicted on charges related to narcoterrorism.

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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the May 9-10, 2026 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 December 23, 2024.

Game Recap:

In a game that was a struggle for both of our challengers—we saw four unplayed clues, a sum nearly unheard of in this day and age, 16 Triple Stumpers, and 11 incorrect responses, Laura Faddah got all three Daily Doubles correct and cruised to a runaway victory that also saw Jenifer fail to make Final Jeopardy.

Final Jeopardy saw a question mark from Sean and a guess of Fujimoro (probably thinking of the Peruvian Alberto Fujimori) from Laura—I’m guessing if this clue played this week, we might have seen it go better from 0-for-2, considering Venezuela’s recent newsworthiness. Next week will see Laura go for win #4 against Harry Jarin and Jenna Hayes.

Scores going into Final:

Laura $15,600
Sean $4,200
Jenifer -$2,000

Tonight’s results:

Jenifer -$2,000 (By rule, did not participate in Final Jeopardy)
Sean $4,200 – $13 = $4,187 (Who is ?)
Laura $15,600 – $2,400 = $13,200 (Who is Fujimoro?) (3-day total: $30,200)

Game Stats:

Laura $15,000 Coryat, 22 correct, 3 incorrect, 39.62% in first on buzzer (21/53), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
Sean $4,200 Coryat, 10 correct, 2 incorrect, 16.98% in first on buzzer (9/53), 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 9 rebound opportunities)
Jenifer -$2,000 Coryat, 8 correct, 6 incorrect, 26.42% in first on buzzer (14/53), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $17,200

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