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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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It pained me today to have to stop recording one of two U.S. Open men’s matches (Verdasco/Fognini or Djokovic/Troicki) in order to watch a Celebrity Jeopardy rerun. Don’t get me wrong; you know I love Jeopardy!, but I can’t believe they would choose to rerun the celebrity episodes right now over anything else, like, maybe this year’s Tournament of Champions? That would’ve made shutting the recording off so much easier, even though it had to be only half an hour. What would you guys want to see these last two weeks of the summer break? I’ve put up a poll. Look for it below my logo above.

Today’s contestants:

Julie Bowen Robin Quivers

Jane Kaczmarek

Did you guys know this triple-stumper in the Jeopardy round’s Agents and Managers?: “It’s the nickname of Hall of Fame baseball manager George Anderson of the Reds and Tigers.”*

By the first break, Julie had 3200, Jane had 1400, and Robin had 0, as she had not rung in yet. She answered her first clue (correctly) in Agents and Managers, with two categories left in play in the Jeopardy round. It wound up being the only clue she responded to in the round. Here it is: “Anne Hathaway was Agent 99 to Steve Carell’s Agent 86 in this movie adaptation from the small screen.”*
Like yesterday, the Daily Double of the Jeopardy round remained uncovered. Julie had 6600 at the end of the round, Jane had 5200, and Robin had 1000.
Julie found the first Daily Double in the Double Jeopardy round, in Un-outsource-able. She seemed to shun strategy and randomly choose a wager, because she said “Half” (of her 10200). Jane had 6000 at the time, and Robin had 4200. This was the clue: “This type of healer who adjusts and aligns you based on a system developed in 1895.”* She got it right.
Later, Julie “moved away” from What’s Opera, Doc category that Jane had been choosing. When Jane went back to it, the next clue in the category was the second Daily Double! But if Julie perceives it as a weaker category for her, maybe it’s for the best that she didn’t find it. Jane admitted she was following Julie’s lead when she wagered 5000. Maybe they don’t watch the show and don’t know about wagering strategies? At any rate, this was the clue: “Marcello fetches a doctor bt Mimi still dies, leaving Rodolfo heartbroken at the end of this opera.”* Jane seemed to know it right away.
At the end of the round, Julie had 15300, Jane had 23400, and Robin had 4200. The Final Jeopardy category was Film Directors. Perhaps the Jeopardy! people were hoping to draw big wagers from the contestants? This was the clue: “His work of the 1930s and 40s is so associated with sentimentality that his name is often combined with ‘corn.'”* Jane was the only one to get it right, so it didn’t really matter that Julie once again made an arguably unreasonable wager: She wagered everything! Jane was today’s champion, then.

*Sparky, Get Smart, chiropractor, La Boheme, Capra

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