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Season 42
Today’s Final Jeopardy – Friday, July 10, 2026
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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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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Tributes) for Friday, July 10, 2026 (Season 42, Game 220):
To her 1910 funeral, “The survivors of the Balaclava Light Brigade charge” sent an arrangement “to our benefactress & friend”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Chris Bergman, a novelist & volunteer mentor from Cape Coral, Florida
Kristal LeMaistre, an internal communications supervisor originally from Round Rock, Texas
Caleb Groen, a law & policy student originally from Thousand Oaks, California (6-day total: $163,200)
Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
As we come to the conclusion of Week #44 of 46 of Season 42 of Jeopardy!, we have a 6-day champion occupying the champion’s lectern in Caleb Groen, who picked up a season high yesterday with a score of $60,000. Today, he faces off against Kristal LeMastre and Chris Bergman.
As things stand right now, Caleb isn’t quite the favorite to win the Tournament of Champions; he’d at least need to get to the 12-13 win mark at the very least to earn that status. (Essentially, Jamie Ding is going to be considered the favorite at this point, simply by virtue of the top 3 seeds receiving byes through to the semifinals.)
In other Jeopardy! news, ESPN Jeopardy! hosted by Joe Buck will be debuting on Hulu, Disney+, and the ESPN app on July 31. (It’s not as if I was considering a vacation around that time or anything.)
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Correct response: Who is Florence Nightingale?
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As The Guardian wrote in its 1910 obituary for Florence Nightingale:
The cleansing and adaptation of the hospital, the establishment of a laundry and of sick-diet kitchens, the supply of food and all kinds of necessaries, and the organisation of a regular system of nursing and a staff of nurses, for many had to be dismissed as incompetent – all this was planned and carried through under the terrible pressure of a constant race with death.
Nightingale was credited with saving many members of the British army in the Crimean War with her care, and the survivors repaid the favor to her with a floral arrangement of white flowers with a letter “B” in blue flowers in the middle to her 1910 funeral. (This was among many of the arrangements sent to her funeral.)
This felt relatively straightforward to me; we’ll see how it plays in general.
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Game Recap:
Once again, Caleb Groen came alive in Double Jeopardy, picking up 15 correct in the round, $12,000 on the Daily Doubles, cruising to a runaway as his opponents needed to take riskier guesses in an attempt to keep pace.
Caleb finished up the week by picking up $10,000 in Final Jeopardy, getting himself over the $200,000 mark through 7 games. He’ll go for win #8 on Monday.
Scores going into Final:
Caleb $27,800
Chris $2,800
Kristal $800
Tonight’s results:
Kristal $800 – $0 = $800 (Who was Queen Victoria?)
Chris $2,800 – $1,199 = $1,601 (Who’s Clara Barton?)
Caleb $27,800 + $10,000 = $37,800 (Who is… Nightingale?) (7-day total: $201,000)
Game Stats:
Caleb $19,000 Coryat, 26 correct, 3 incorrect, 43.86% in first on buzzer (25/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 10 rebound opportunities)
Chris $2,800 Coryat, 6 correct, 1 incorrect, 8.77% in first on buzzer (5/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 11 rebound opportunities)
Kristal $200 Coryat, 15 correct, 9 incorrect, 38.60% in first on buzzer (22/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $22,000
Caleb Groen, to win:
8 games: 82.439%
9: 67.962%
10: 56.027%
11: 46.188%
12: 38.077%
Avg. streak: 11.694 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- I can’t really fault Kristal for taking shots and risking incorrect responses in the face of who she was playing against. Two thumbs up to her for that strategy.
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