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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As Andy says, I’m going to the unofficial Jeopardy! reunion this week in Washington, D.C. I’ve hardly been able to think of anything else! I can’t wait to bring you everything I see and hear. I’m still hoping to have videos too, either with my phone, camera-that-I’ve-never-used, or netbook-webcam-I’ve-never-used! I wish I was leaving tomorrow already, except I’ll have the pleasure of getting my fingers/toes/hair done tomorrow, and I still want to do a little more shopping. You and I will find out, will my hair last all the way through the Thursday night pub quiz? I have my doubts, and it’s too bad. Incidentally, my hair lady called today while I was sleeping and said she had me scheduled for today. (In fact it was scheduled for tomorrow.) It’s too bad, because then I’d know I’d have to redo my hair by Thursday night. Also, I’d have more free time tomorrow.
Hey, remember last year’s infamous red polo shirt? Well this year I am keeping score (not reading, thank you God), so I thought I wouldn’t have to wear it. As it turns out, it doesn’t look like anyone has to wear it. Good move, History Bowl. Hopefully this’ll be the last time I mention it. By the way, I’ll be wearing the dress in the above link on Sunday this weekend.
Speaking of Jeopardy! in D.C., the Power Players Tournament was taped there this past weekend. My sister e-mailed me this link from Anderson Cooper 360 that I thought you might like. Notice that Cheech Marin, like guest-blogger Cathy Guiles, uses his pointer-finger as opposed to his thumb when ringing in. I’d never heard of this before Cathy, or you can be sure that I’d at least have practiced it at home before my own appearance. And speaking of Cathy, she too is going to be at the reunion on Friday.
Today’s contestants:
Cindy Vanderbur
Andrea Korte
Matt Johnson (Like Brad Rutter, he’s from Lancaster, PA!)
Cindy was a one-time champ coming into today. I have to admit, I’m not a big fan. The constant sleeve-pushing reminiscent of Andy Roddick. The chattering to her fellow contestants. The hair-shaking. The wasted time. The overt indifference toward Daily Double wagering. The incongruent facial expressions and affected bewilderment. And there’s nothing wrong with this, but you’ve gotta pay close attention if you’re keeping track of your Coryat – she doesn’t select the clues in the traditional top-to-bottom way. I wonder if this is strategy on her part, or if she is just nervous, as Mr. Trebek said she was.
I had a solid Jeopardy round, for as wacky as the categories were. I should’ve swept Speaking Hawaiian, but didn’t pull the trigger on this clue: “It can be a Hawaiian feast or a particular dish usually prepared with coconut cream at that feast.” And somehow I’d have swept All About Artists, but I didn’t ring in on this one: “This artist known for self-portraits had a child by a young housekeeper and once declared bankruptcy.”
I’d have suspect that Matt, introduced as a baker, had a little trouble ringing in in Just Desserts. He got 2/5.
At the first break, Andrea and Cindy were tied at 3200 while Matt had 1800. At the end of the round, Cindy had 5700, Matt had 3400, and Andrea had 4200.
Longfellow was as hard as I expected it to be. I got on this one for 400, and that on a WAG: “In a Longfellow rhyme, ‘I shot’ this ‘into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.'”
On the other hand, I only didn’t get this one in We’re an American Band: “We hit the top 10 with ‘Don’t Look Back’ in 1978; we’d say where we’re from, but that’d be too much of a hint.” I was trying to decide between “Kansas” and the correct response.
I got this triple-stumper on a WAG, in This or That (I got it because I love tennis): “A bad football punt, or the long, straight anchor part connecting the crown & the ring.”
At the end of the round, Cindy had 24000, Matt had 6200, and Andrea had 18400. Fun wagering practice today, yeah? As much as I was hoping for Andrea to defeat Cindy today, I lost some respect with her icky final wager. Playing for second. Sound familiar? It didn’t matter in the end, because Andrea missed the final and Cindy got it. On the other hand, Cindy did widely-accepted “right” thing by wagering enough to cover Andrea in case she doubled. And that’s a big wager! If I were Andrea, I’d have wagered 7200. She’d have won then if Cindy made the predictable wager and if both Cindy and Andrea got the final wrong. (That’s taking Matt out of the equation, of course.) I’m not sure what I’d do if I were Matt. I’d doubt that Andrea would wager the way I just suggested. In that case I may wager nothing. Since Andrea wagered the way she did, he’d have wound up in third no matter what he did. He got the final right.
This was the final clue, in Women’s Firsts: “In 1977 Juanita Kreps, the first woman on the board of the NYSE, became the first woman to head this cabinet dept.” Did they really not have enough room to spell out the whole word? Anyway, I got this seemingly straight-forward final wrong.
My Coryat today was 27000! Here’s the thread for today’s episode.