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 tonight’s Final Jeopardy answer and question for Monday, March 27, 2017:
Final Jeopardy! category: SCIENTISTS
Final Jeopardy! clue/answer: This European’s 1751 “Philosophia Botanica” gave rules of nomenclature & said don’t change generic names
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Meral Cultu, a nonprofit strategist from Cleveland, Ohio
Adam Vesterholt, an energy engineer from Brooklyn, New York
Robert Weibezahl, a writer from Westlake Village, California (1-day total: $11,000)
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Carl Linnaeus (Carolus Linnaeus) was a Swedish botanist who created a uniform system of naming natural organisms (binomial nomenclature), using genera and species (and creating principles upon which to frame those definitions.)
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Scores going into Final:
Adam $13,401
Robert $13,400
Meral $11,800
Final results:
Meral $11,800 + $1,602 = $13,402 (Who is Charles Linnaeus?†)
Robert $13,400 – $1,600 = $11,800 (Who is Boyle)
Adam $13,401 + $13,400 = $26,801 (1-day total: $26,801)
†(Meral’s response of “Who is Charles Linnaeus?” was accepted by the judges because “Charles” is an Anglicized form of the Swedish “Carl”/Latin “Carolus”).
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Adam $7,200
Robert $6,600
Meral $3,000
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) OH MY GODS! $600 (15th pick)
Adam 3400 +2400 (Robert 2000 Meral 1200)
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2) THE SOUTHWEST $800 (19th pick)
Adam 9600 +3600 (Robert 11800 Meral 8200)
3) CONSERVATIVE BOOKSHELF $1600 (29th pick, $2,000 left on board)
Adam 12000 +1401 (Robert 13400 Meral 11800)
Unplayed clues:
J! round: THE BUSY BUSINESSMAN $1000
DJ! round: None!
$ Left on Board: $1,000
Game Stats:
Adam $9,000 Coryat, 19 correct, 6 incorrect, 37.50% in first on buzzer
Meral $11,800 Coryat, 13 correct, 0 incorrect, 23.21% in first on buzzer
Robert $13,400 Coryat, 19 correct, 1 incorrect, 28.57% in first on buzzer
Lach Trash: $11,800
Coryat lost to incorrect responses: $7,000
Robert Weibezahl, final stats:
36 correct
6 incorrect
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,000)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
30.09% in first on buzzer (34/113)
Average Coryat: $11,000
Adam Vesterholt, stats to date:
20 correct
6 incorrect
3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,401)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
37.50% in first on buzzer (21/56)
Average Coryat: $9,000
Adam Vesterholt, to win:
2 games: 29.50%
3: 8.70%
4: 2.57%
5: 0.76%
6: 0.22%
Avg. streak: 1.418 games.
Avg. Total Winnings (including possible ToC): $36,966
With a projected 79 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 250,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 2.8822 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.313).
An average of 4.4643 4+-time champions (standard deviation 1.594).
An early cutoff took place 10.705% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
Tim Kutz qualified 67.085% of the time.
Todd Giese qualified 24.874% of the time.
Rob Liguori qualified 5.466% of the time.
Fred Vaughn qualified 0.897% of the time.
Miscellany:
- Thank you to Jay Johnson for providing me with a full chart of this game.
The most recent regular-play game with a $1 difference between 1st and 2nd after Double Jeopardy: January 27, 2012.
Adam is the first player to find all three Daily Doubles in the same game since Leanne Vincent on February 28, and the first player to get all 3 correct in regular play since Lisa Schlitt on February 2.