Season 41 Jeopardy! contestants - where they're from

The main table includes all players who made their first appearance on Jeopardy! in 2024-25. Thus, they exclude:

• Rachel Bradley, winner of the last game of Season 40
• The players in the "postseason" competitions, all of whom first appeared last season or earlier in this one:
  • Second Chance — 18 players
  • Champions Wildcard — 15 players
  • Tournament of Champions — 21 players
• The 27 players in the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament, two of whom were non-finalists from last year's Jeopardy! Masters

Jeopardy! is continuing the practice, revived in Season 37, of allowing contestants to be introduced as "originally from" a location other than their current residence, which had been ended in 2016. Those introductions are not separated out in these statistics.

What's here:

• Contestants by media market
• Contestants by state/province
• Second Chance
• Champions Wildcard
• 2025 Tournament of Champions
• 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament

(Credits: Zap2it & TitanTV for TV schedules for each market; ThinkTV for a listing of Canadian market sizes, enabling me to rank them properly with the U.S. markets; and the U.S. Census Bureau for KML files of county boundaries for use with Google Earth.)

Ranks represent market size estimates for 2024-25.

Updated through Week 36 of Season 41 (2025-05-16).

Contestants by media market