Today’s Final Jeopardy – Tuesday, June 23, 2020

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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.
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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 Famous Russians) for Tuesday, May 22, 2018 (Season 34, Episode 182):

In November 1836 this writer got a letter naming him to the Most Serene Order of Cuckolds; in February 1837 he was dead

This episode originally aired on May 22, 2018.

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s contestants:

Andrew Lai, a medical student from East Lansing, Michigan

Hermine Vermeij, a librarian from Tarzana, California

Josh Hill, a network engineer from North Little Rock, Arkansas (4-day total: $102,530)

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Correct response: Who is Alexander Pushkin?

More information about Final Jeopardy:

In the fall of 1836, Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (author of the play Boris Godunov and the novel Eugene Onegin) was facing scandalous rumours that his wife Natalia was having an affair with French military officer Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d’Anthès. In amongst the scandal was a letter lampooning Pushkin. Heeckeren was accused of being the anonymous author of the lampoon. In an attempt to save Natalia’s reputation, Heeckeren married Natalia’s sister Yekaterina, but this was not enough to settle the conflict, and Pushkin was killed in the eventual duel. In the aftermath, Heeckeren was removed from Russia and lived out the rest of his life in France, serving as a Senator in the Second French Empire from 1852 to 1870.

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

Scores going into Final:
Josh $21,995
Hermine $14,600
Andrew $11,400

Tonight’s results:
Andrew $11,400 – $11,400 = $0 (Who is Tolstoy?)
Hermine $14,600 – $8,201 = $6,399 (Who is Dosteevsky?)
Josh $21,995 – $7,206 = $14,789 (5-day total: $117,319) (Who was Tolstoy)

Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Josh $8,400
Hermine $3,800
Andrew $3,800

Opening break taken after: 15 clues

Daily Double locations:
1) ILLINOIS AT 200 $600 (13th pick)
Josh 1200 +1200 (Hermine 3000 Andrew 600)
2) SCIENCE $1200 (22nd pick)
Andrew 7400 +4000 (Josh 18400 Hermine 9800)
3) ART & ARTISTS $1600 (24th pick)
Josh 20000 -5 (Andrew 11400 Hermine 9800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 154

Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total $ Left On Board: $0

Game Stats:
Josh $21,400 Coryat, 27 correct, 2 incorrect, 45.61% in first on buzzer
Hermine $14,600 Coryat, 17 correct, 1 incorrect, 31.58% in first on buzzer
Andrew $8,600 Coryat, 11 correct, 0 incorrect, 15.79% in first on buzzer
Combined Coryat Score: $44,600
Lach Trash: $6,200 (on 4 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $3,200

Josh Hill, stats to date:
136 correct, 16 incorrect
48.04% in first on buzzer (135/281)
5/7 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $17,195)
2/5 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $22,560

Josh Hill, to win:
6 games: 82.59%
7: 68.21%
8: 56.34%
9: 46.53%
10: 38.43%
Avg. streak: 9.744 games.

Miscellaneous:

• Scoring note: Clue 14 of the Double Jeopardy! round saw the judges refund Hermine’s $800 neg on that clue, as while her answer was not correct, the judges felt her answer was not incorrect either. The rules of the show were followed and no contestant was disadvantaged.

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