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Today’s Final Jeopardy – August 6, 2018

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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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August 12: S42 E98 (January 21, 2026)
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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 today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Vice Presidents) for Semifinal #1 in the 2017 Tournament of Champions (encore presentation) on Monday, August 6, 2018 (Season 34, Episode 46):

A biography of this 19th century VP traces his family to a German town made famous in a folk tale about children

(This episode originally aired on November 13, 2017.)

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Cindy Stowell, had she not passed away from stage 4 colon cancer in December 2016, would have qualified for this tournament. The players in the tournament are wearing dark blue ribbons as a way of promoting colon cancer awareness, in memory of Cindy.

Today’s contestants:

Lilly Chin, a robotics Ph.D. student at MIT from Decatur, Georgia

Lilly Chin on the 2017 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions

Austin Rogers, a bartender from New York, New York

Austin Rogers on the 2017 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions

Andrew Pau, an associate professor from Amherst, Ohio

Andrew Pau on the 2017 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions

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Correct response: Who is Hannibal Hamlin?

More information about Final Jeopardy:

The biography was The Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin, by his grandson, Charles Eugene Hamlin, published in 1899. It opens:

THE Hamlins are believed to have been Teutonic tribes, clans, or nations of people who lived along the banks of the rivers and lakes in the far-off ages of old Germany.A circumstance that appears to bear out this theory is the fact that Hamlins are now living in the ancient town of Hamelin, in Hanover, at the confluence of the rivers Hamel and Weser, which is the town made famous in the legend of “The Pied Piper of Hamelin,” by Robert Browning.

Of course, Hannibal Hamlin was the Maine politician who served as Abraham Lincoln’s first Vice-President, serving from 1861 to 1865.

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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!

Scores going into Final:
Austin $9,200
Andrew $7,200
Lilly $6,800

Tonight’s results:
Lilly $6,800 – $6,000 = $800 (Who is Martin Van Buren)
Andrew $7,200 + $3,199 = $10,399
Austin $9,200 + $5,300 = $14,500 (Finalist)

Austin Rogers, today's Jeopardy! winner (for the August 6, 2018 episode.)

Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Austin $6,800
Andrew $6,000
Lilly $4,600

Opening break taken after: 15 clues

Daily Double locations:
1) QUEEN-SIZED $800 (14th pick)
Andrew 2600 +2600 (Austin 2800 Lilly 1800)
2) WORLD PLACE NAMES $1600 (6th pick)
Andrew 12000 -8000 (Austin 6800 Lilly 4600)
3) EARTH SCIENCE $1200 (19th pick)
Lilly 6200 -3000 (Austin 8000 Andrew 6400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -15

Unplayed clues:
J! round: MUSIC FOR CHAMPS $400
DJ! Round: None!
Total $ Left On Board: $400

Game Stats:
Austin $9,200 Coryat, 18 correct, 1 incorrect, 32.14% in first on buzzer, 1/1 on rebound attempts
Andrew $13,400 Coryat, 16 correct, 2 incorrect, 26.79% in first on buzzer, 1/1 on rebound attempts
Lilly $9,800 Coryat, 13 correct, 4 incorrect, 25.00% in first on buzzer, 1/2 on rebound attempts
Combined Coryat Score: $32,400
Lach Trash: $12,800 (on 10 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $8,400

Austin Rogers, stats to date:
368 correct, 47 incorrect
27/28 on rebound attempts
22/28 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $106,100)
14/15 in Final Jeopardy
40.86% in first on buzzer (344/842)
Average Coryat: $17,133

Andrew Pau, stats to date:
204 correct, 15 incorrect
10/13 on rebound attempts
12/13 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $27,400)
6/9 in Final Jeopardy
36.35% in first on buzzer (185/509)
Average Coryat: $19,244

Lilly Chin, stats to date:
115 correct, 17 incorrect
5/7 on rebound attempts
8/9 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $14,200)
3/6 in Final Jeopardy
32.74% in first on buzzer (111/339)
Average Coryat: $14,300


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