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Season 30

The Hangout Is Coming!

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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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Andy here with a recap from the final semifinal!

Keep posted here at 7:00 PM Eastern on July 31 (6:00 PM Central, 5:00 PM Mountain, 4:00 PM Pacific), where I’ll post a link on the blog to our special Google Hangout event for Day 1 of the finals!

ETA: Here it is!!!

Wednesday’s semifinalists:


Sam yawned; Alex caught him! Sam said he was just nervous!

J! round categories:
WHAT DO YOU WANT ON YOUR PIZZA?
COUNTRY NICKNAMES
IN THE DICTIONARY
POP CULTURE
MYTHOLOGY
VACATION!

Sam and Alan got off to the best start over the first 15 clues in the round (COUNTRY NICKNAMES, MYTHOLOGY, POP CULTURE)! Scores at the first break:
Alan $3,600
Sam $3,200
Kat $1,200

At Santa Monica Pier, Kat had to run down a seagull who attempted to steal her bag!

Sam played Aldolpho in a seventh-grade production of “The Drowsy Chaperone”, “the Latin womanizer”; he said the part felt like him when auditioning. Cue uproarious laughter from the audience!

Alan went to the Galapagos; he went snorkelling with sea lions!

Back to the game, IN THE DICTIONARY $800 had a Daily Double. Sam got to play it, but it was a video. Ugh. Scores:

Alan $4,200
Sam $3,800
Kat $1,200

Sam went for the True Daily Double! His clue: The picture seen here might accompany the entry for this word found under the letter “p” Sadly, Sam went for “parade” and fell to $0.


Sam did well to rebuild some of his score by the end of the round, but he was in third place! Scores after 30:
Alan $7,200
Kat $3,000
Sam $1,400

DJ! round categories:
QUOTATIONS
GIMME SOME MATH!
TV THROWBACK
CREATIVE WRITERS
THE LAW
DOUBLE Ws

Kat did quite well in TV THROWBACK to bring her score pretty close to Alan’s! But Alan’s supreme skill in MATH gave him a big lead again!

THE LAW and CREATIVE WRITERS had one Daily Double each; they were the last two categories touched as well! Sam got to play the first Daily Double in the round, at the bottom of LAW! Scores:

Alan $17,600
Kat $12,600
Sam $5,000

Sam bet $5,000 again. Good guy. His clue: Marbury v Madison marked the first time that a federal law had been ruled this 16-letter term. His correct response doubled his score!

His mistake though — going to $400 in CREATIVE WRITERS! It meant that Kat got to play the final Daily Double, under CREATIVE WRITERS $1600! Scores:

Alan $17,600
Kat $13,000
Sam $10,000

Only the $2000 clue remained. If I’m Kat here I bet $6,700. She bet just $2,600. Her clue: He created Edmond Dantes but based him on falsely accused Francois Picaud. Kat had no answer and fell to $10,400.

Scores going into Final:

Alan $19,600
Kat $10,400
Sam $10,000

FJ! category: GREAT MOMENTS IN 19th CENTURY SCIENCE

FJ! clue: Matthias Schleiden found plants are made up of these; at dinner, he told Theodor Schwann who said, “Hey, so are animals”

Sam 10000 + 10000 = 20000
Kat 10400 + 10399 = 20799
Alan 19600 + 1201 = 20801

So, Alan’s our finalist! He’ll play two more games! Remember to check out our Hangout in a few hours!

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