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Season 36

Today’s Final Jeopardy – September 16, 2019

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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)
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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)
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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)
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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 European Authors) for Monday, September 16, 2019 (Season 36, Episode 6):

When he didn’t win the inaugural 1901 Nobel Prize, 42 of his peers apologized to him, calling him “the most revered patriarch of today’s literature”

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s contestants:

Rodrigo Morante-Tirado, a financial analyst from Ottawa, Ontario

Rodrigo Morante-Tirado on Jeopardy!

Laura Majors, a retired marketing director from Denver, Colorado

Laura Majors on Jeopardy!

Jason Zuffranieri, a math teacher from Albuquerque, New Mexico (11-day total: $332,243)

Jason Zuffranieri on Jeopardy!

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Correct response: Who is Leo Tolstoy?

More information about Final Jeopardy:

The early Nobel Prize committees, dare I say here at The Jeopardy! Fan, used a different interpretation of Alfred Nobel’s will than today’s committee. Namely, the “ideal direction” clause from Nobel’s will was interpreted as “a lofty and sound idealism”. What this meant was that authors who would have been considered shoo-ins for the prize today (i.e. Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen, Émile Zola and Mark Twain) never received one. Moreover, Tolstoy wasn’t even nominated for the 1901 prize (which went to French poet Sully Prudhomme), which prompted 42 authors, including August Strindberg, to send a proclamation to Tolstoy.

You can find the full text of the proclamation at the Nobel Prize website.

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

Scores going into Final:
Jason $34,400
Laura $8,800
Rodrigo $200

Tonight’s results:
Rodrigo $200 – $199 = $1 (Who is Camus?)
Laura $8,800 + $8,000 = $16,800
Jason $34,400 – $10,000 = $24,400 (12-day total: $356,643) (Who is Goethe?)

Jason Zuffranieri, today's Jeopardy! winner (for the September 16, 2019 game.)

Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Jason $10,000
Laura $4,000
Rodrigo -$1,000

Opening break taken after: 15 clues

Daily Double locations:
1) ART & ARTISTS $800 (6th pick)
Jason 2600 +2600 (Laura 0 Rodrigo -600)
2) WHICH PRESIDENT? $1600 (8th pick)
Jason 14400 +7000 (Laura 6400 Rodrigo -3000)
3) THIS CATEGORY HAS PLATEAUED $1600 (13th pick)
Jason 22200 +3000 (Laura 7600 Rodrigo -600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 162

Unplayed clues:
J! round: ACRONYMNS & ABBREVS. $200; POPULAR INVENTION $200; 200 YEARS OF WALT WHITMAN $200
DJ! Round: DJ! Round: THIS CATEGORY HAS PLATEAUED $400; HERE COMES THE JUDGE WORD $400
Total $ Left On Board: $1,400

Game Stats:
Jason $25,800 Coryat, 27 correct, 1 incorrect, 40.38% in first on buzzer, 4/4 on rebound attempts (on 9 rebound opportunities)
Laura $8,800 Coryat, 18 correct, 4 incorrect, 38.46% in first on buzzer, 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Rodrigo $200 Coryat, 4 correct, 5 incorrect, 15.38% in first on buzzer, 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $34,800
Lach Trash: $8,200 (on 6 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $9,600

Jason Zuffranieri, stats to date:
353 correct, 28 incorrect
21/23 on rebound attempts (on 47 rebound opportunities)
48.62% in first on buzzer (318/654)
23/28 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $72,900)
7/12 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $24,950

Jason Zuffranieri, to win:
13 games: 86.354%
14: 74.570%
15: 64.394%
16: 55.607%
17: 48.018%
Avg. streak: 18.328 games.

Andy’s Thoughts:

  • It didn’t seem as though Jason was quite as dominant on the buzzer during this match as he was last week. It would have been his second straight day of taping; it’s quite possible that he’s starting to fatigue. With last season’s taping schedule, it’d be the first time he’d have to show up to the studio on back-to-back days.
  • There are many cases in games such as this one where the show’s editors will clip contestant’s phrasing, as there’s no other way to fit the played number of clues into time. Rest assured that every response in this game was phrased properly; comments suggesting otherwise will be considered out-of-order and deleted.
  • On Reddit, Rodrigo reported that the plug for Batman Day was filmed afterwards; of course, this is ideal as it means those plugs don’t interrupt the flow of the game.
  • Thank you to Mark Barrett for providing me with a full chart of this game.

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