Weekend Jeopardy! Recap – November 29 & 30, 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 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 City Nicknames) for November 29-30, 2025 (Season 41, Game 157):

The poet Albius Tibullus called a city this in the late 1st century B.C., some 700 years after its traditional founding

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:

Thomas Wilson, a teacher from Taylors, South Carolina

Dondi DeMarco, an operations executive from New York, New York

Andrew Hayes, a law student originally from Tupelo, Mississippi (4-day total: $98,603)

Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:

On this Thanksgiving holiday weekend, the weekend encore presentations continue their look back at the long run of successive champions we had in April, with today featuring Andrew Hayes going for victory #5 and Thomas Wilson & Dondi DeMarco attempting to stop him.

One thing I’ve noticed, looking quite far into my television guide: The episode set to air on December 15 is listed in my guide as “S41 Second Chance” instead of “Jeopardy! · S42 E71”. I know that the average Jeopardy! viewer is usually more intelligent than the average American. However, from my experience in the comments here, I know viewers have still been confused by this notation in the past, as they have seen the previous season in the listing and incorrectly assumed it’s a rerun. Due to this confusion, I think that Michael Davies et al. should seriously consider editing their episode labels ASAP, referring to these episodes “Jeopardy · S42 E71, Second Chance”, to make clear to all viewers that the episode is both new and part of the Second Chance competition.

Correct response: What is The Eternal City?

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.)

In his Elegies, Albius Tibullus wrote Romulus aeternae nondum formaverat urbis moenia, consorti non habitanda Remo, referring to Rome as “The Eternal City” for the first time.

As someone who is very familiar with that specific metonym being used to refer to Rome in many contexts, I found this Final Jeopardy clue to be very straightforward, though the players did not quite have as much success on it, as you’ll see in the recap.

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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the November 29-30, 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 April 15, 2025.

Game Recap:

As has happened so many times in the 2020s, Dondi DeMarco proved why it’s so important to make aggressive wagers on the Daily Doubles. He only bet $2,000 of his $10,800 score on DD3, and while it put him in a strong position, both Andrew and Thomas did play well enough on the final 19 clues to ensure it wasn’t a runaway. The nearly $9,000 left on the table on DD3 certainly would have been better put to use in Dondi’s score, as an extra $4,801 would have ensured a runaway. (It should also be pointed out that, in general, over the history of the show, Daily Doubles are answered correctly on average at a rate that suggests that players need to bet significantly more than they currently do on them.)

Andrew still being in contention going into Final proved vital, as he was the only player to come up with a correct response on the game’s 61^st clue, picking up that 5^th victory. At least Dondi will be returning in a few weeks in the third week of the Second Chance competition.

Scores going into Final:

Dondi $18,400
Andrew $11,600
Thomas $9,600

Tonight’s results:

Thomas $9,600 – $9,000 = $600 (What is Troy? Love you Elizabeth, Louis, Gianna, Baby)
Andrew $11,600 + $7,601 = $19,201 (What is the Eternal City? It’s been fun!) (5-day total: $117,804)
Dondi $18,400 – $5,001 = $13,399 (What is…)

Game Stats:

Andrew $12,600 Coryat, 17 correct, 3 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Dondi $17,600 Coryat, 17 correct, 2 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Thomas $8,400 Coryat, 15 correct, 2 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $38,600
Lach Trash: $9,400 (on 10 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $6,000
Lead Changes: 8
Times Tied: 3

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