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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Hello! I hope everyone enjoyed Week 2 of Second Chance. Here are a few hundred words worth of my thoughts on the going-on from the week:
On Differing Statistical Definitions Between J! Archive And The Show
I have used enough virtual column inches discussing the show’s choice to use the term “super-champion” to refer to those who won 10 games (in contrast with J! Archive’s 2003-era definition of “6 wins”.) Despite Ken opening that can of worms last week, I’m not interested in continuing that fight.
However, there were some discrepancies between J! Archive and the show this week regarding counting Triple Stumpers, which I assume resulted from reversals at the judges’ table. At the moment, I will be staying with the J! Archive Triple Stumper count—a judges’ reversal from correct to incorrect results in a Triple Stumper being counted in J! Archive, chiefly due to the technical inability to mark a non-Daily Double clue where no contestant was credited with a correct response as anything other than a Triple Stumper. I am choosing to match J! Archive because, for the first 8,500-odd shows in the show’s history, the only other Triple Stumper count belongs to J! Archive, and I am choosing to match them for consistency’s sake. (I can certainly see why someone would not record this as a Triple Stumper, but again, I think my hands are tied here for technical reasons and historical consistency.)
The other discrepancy, however, resulted from the judges going the other way the following day, retroactively crediting a player with a correct response after being ruled incorrect by the judges. In my opinion, being credited with a correct response retroactively should nullify any recorded Triple Stumper—and I don’t think this would be a particularly contentious debate, either.
It’ll be interesting to see if anything comes of this over the coming days and weeks.
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The Cristiano Ronaldo Clue (And, Redemption?)
Thursday’s game saw a $1,000 clue with a photograph of Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo, with some people shocked that it was placed at the level that it was. Those fans might have had a point—after all, Cristiano Ronaldo is the most-followed individual on Instagram—but what caught my ear was the fact that Deanna Bolio was asked to be more specific—presumably between Cristiano Ronaldo and multiple Ballon d’Or recipient Ronaldo. In the early 2010s, in my past career as a pub quiz host, I took heat from players for doing the exact same thing (asking players to differentiate between Ronaldo and Cristiano Ronaldo), and I couldn’t help but feel a little bit of redemption for my own decision on that.
My Thoughts On The First Ladies “Be More Specific” Hullabaloo
While we’re on the subject of “be more specific”, I think it’s time for a hot take in terms of what happened on Wednesday’s Double Jeopardy Round (in THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C.) For those who missed it, the $1200 clue was “She met the future president in 1938 when they both tried out for a local play in Whittier, California”. Alex Lamb rang in with “Who is Nixon?” and was asked to be more specific; the shock of this caused him to accidentally say Richard Nixon and be charged with an incorrect response.
While I come at this having played a large amount of Online Quiz League—where the last name only is required in nearly every single case—I don’t actually mind what Ken and the judges did. After all, if the category is going to be about U.S. First Ladies, should it not be incumbent upon the contestants to actually know their first names? Moreover, these women have their own identities—their own names is just the starting point—that are more than just their husbands’ last names.
Honestly, though, I think this will become a situation where, regardless of what the show chooses to do (prompting more often vs. prompting less often), a large chunk of the show’s audience is going to be angry; there have certainly been many commenters over the years who get angry when they don’t think the show prompts enough.
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The Celebrity Jeopardy! Schedule
Some minor news ripples were made this week when the first 18 celebrities were announced on the Celebrity Jeopardy mini-site, and half of the matchups were quickly taken down. There was some speculation that it was because those matches had yet to tape, and I just wanted to note that this was decidedly incorrect. Two sets of matches have already been taped—both August 21 and 23 were Celebrity Jeopardy tapings. (Some “reporters”—deliberately put in quotes because I am using the term incredibly loosely here—need to stop taking the word of random Reddit users as gospel.)
In Closing
Next week sees Week 3 of Second Chance and the return of Celebrity Jeopardy — I hope everyone has a good week!
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