Today’s Final Jeopardy – Wednesday, August 27, 2025

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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 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)
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August 27: S42 E109 (February 5, 2026)
August 28: S42 E110 (February 6, 2026)
August 29-30: S41 E143 (March 26, 2025)
August 31: S42 E111 (February 9, 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 Presidential Elections) for Wednesday, August 27, 2025 (Season 41, Game 123):

The only 2 Democrats to be elected President between James Buchanan in 1856 & FDR in 1932

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:

Shane Whitlock, a radiologist originally from Benton, Arkansas

Claire Sattler, a comedian & research scientist from New York, New York

Ben Chan, a philosophy professor from Green Bay, Wisconsin

Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:

The encore presentations continue tonight with Quarterfinal #8 of the 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament, featuring stars of the 1990s, 2010s, and 2020s. The 1990s here are represented by 1996 College champion Shane Whitlock, the 2010s by 2018 Teen Tournament winner Claire Sattler, and the 2020s by Ben Chan, who nearly won the 2024 Tournament of Champions.

Correct response: Who are Grover Cleveland & Woodrow Wilson?

More information about Final Jeopardy:

(The following write-up is original content and is copyright 2025 The Jeopardy! Fan. It may not be copied without linked attribution back to this page.)

Both correct responses to today’s Final Jeopardy clue won a pair of elections; Grover Cleveland won the 1884 & 1892 Electoral College, while Woodrow Wilson received the most number of electors in 1912 and 1916.

This is still one of those timeless Final Jeopardy clues that, in my opinion, would not have felt out of place had it been asked during the 1985 Tournament of Champions, let alone a major tournament in 2025.

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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Wednesday, August 27, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:

Note: If you’d like to see the full statistics from this game, check out the original recap, from February 26, 2025.

As if almost to be expected in a game involving Ben Chan, this game had some incredible high-level strategy in it. The Daily Doubles in Double Jeopardy took quite a long time to come out, with Ben going for the rare $5 wager on DD2. When Shane found DD3, Shane bet to guarantee a lead going into Final Jeopardy if correct, but the margins ended up being so tight that Ben had just enough room to make some very strategic Final Jeopardy betting. (Shane’s score was just below four-fifths of Ben’s going into Final, which meant that if Ben thought Shane was going to make the game-theory optimal “first-order” bet, the defense against that brings Ben’s win chances from about 63% or so to about 81% or so.)

Ben did in fact make the small bet in defense—correctly surmising that Shane was going to make the proper small bet himself—but Final Jeopardy still broke in Shane’s direction, advancing the 1996 college champion to the semifinals.

Scores going into Final:

Ben $18,395
Shane $14,700
Claire $0

Tonight’s results:

Claire $0 (By rule, did not participate in Final Jeopardy)
Shane $14,700 + $6,000 = $20,700 (Who are Wilson and Cleveland?) (Semi-Finalist)
Ben $18,395 – $3,694 = $14,701 (Who are B Harr Garfield and Wilson?)

Game Stats:

Shane $18,200 Coryat, 23 correct, 1 incorrect, 36.84% in first on buzzer (21/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Ben $19,400 Coryat, 23 correct, 5 incorrect, 43.86% in first on buzzer (25/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Claire $0 Coryat, 4 correct, 2 incorrect, 10.53% in first on buzzer (6/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $37,600
Lach Trash: $7,000 (on 7 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $9,400
Lead Changes: 6
Times Tied: 2

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