I
have been a fan of the TV Show, Jeopardy on ABC for a number of years.
However last year and this year 40 day winning streak of Amy Schneider
has really attracted my attention. Her winning streak has captivated the
nation and the more than 11 million fans of Jeopardy. Her 40-day
winning streak ended last Jan 26th last month.
Amy is
an engineering manager from Oakland, California. She made history as
the first woman to win $1 million on the game show and the first transgender contestant to qualify for the Tournament of Champions.
In case you have not heard of Amy Schneider here's a write up of her biography and jeopardy achievements from Wikipedia.
Amy Schneider is an American engineering manager and game show contestant. She held a 40-game winning streak on the game show Jeopardy! from November 2021 to January 2022, the second-longest win streak behind only Ken Jennings (74 games), who hosted the show as she competed. She is the most successful woman to ever compete on the show, both in terms of her streak and $1.3 million in winnings.
Schneider is known for her skill in the Final Jeopardy! round, having responded incorrectly only eleven times in her run. She lives in Oakland, California. Across all American game shows, she is the eleventh highest-earning contestant of all time.
Schneider is a trans woman. Throughout her run on Jeopardy!, she expressed admiration for past champions Ken Jennings, James Holzhauer, Matt Amodio, and Julia Collins. On a January 2022 episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Schneider said that she hoped Jennings would assume the permanent hosting position of the program, citing his comforting and empathetic presence.
Jeopardy! streak
Schneider's first victory occurred on the November 17, 2021 episode, dethroning five-day champion Andrew He. In the following 14 games, she only missed one Final Jeopardy! question. She missed a second in her 16th win. In total, Schneider has won over $1 million on Jeopardy!, the fifth-most winnings of any contestant on the show in all play. Schneider is the first openly transgender contestant to qualify for the Tournament of Champions. Her winning streak came one year after the first openly transgender contestant, Kate Freeman, competed and won on the show. Schneider, who viewed Freeman's victory and several other trans contestants' losing appearances on the show as inspiration, has described the significance of having a trans identity: "The fact is, I don't actually think about being trans all that often, and so when appearing on national television, I wanted to represent that part of my identity accurately: as important, but also relatively minor." After passing Matt Amodio's 38-game winning streak in the episode aired on January 24, 2022, Schneider took second place for the most consecutive wins in Jeopardy! history, at 39, only behind Ken Jennings' 74 consecutive wins.
Schneider was defeated in her 41st episode, aired on January 26, 2022, finishing in second place to Rhone Talsma, a librarian from Chicago, Illinois. Schneider's winnings totaled over $1,300,000, ranking her fourth in most money won in regular-season play behind Jennings, James Holzhauer, and Amodio.
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