40-game winning streak on Jeopardy!
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Jeopardy! (Jan 25, 2022)
Jeopardy! (Jan 25, 2022)
Amy Schneider won 40 games on Jeopardy!, winning $1,382,800 during her run; this is the second-longest win streak and the fourth-highest amount of money won. In addition, it is the longest and most money a woman has ever won in the game; she is also the most victorious transgender contestant.
Amy is also the first openly transgender player to compete in the Tournament of Champions, which she won.
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And it just felt really good to just sort of validate everything and they kind of like end this sort of like impostor syndrome, that was still kind of a little bit in my mind and really be like, 'No, I'm actually kind of good at playing Jeopardy.'
Amy Schneider
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Oakland's Amy Schneider talks 'Jeopardy!' Tournament of Champions win, trans advocacy, book plans
The Oakland resident made history as the first woman and first transgender woman to win "Jeopardy!" with the most winnings at 40 consecutive games from Nov. 2021 to Jan. 2022. She won three games in the tournament finals winning the $250,000 grand prize, and she feels great.
ABC News
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Amy Schneider's 'Jeopardy!' run has come to an end after 40 games
Schneider will return for the Tournament of Champions in the fall. She's the first openly trans contestant to qualify for it.
NPR
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‘Jeopardy!’ Hasn’t Had a Player Like Amy Schneider
She was a virtuoso in terms of accuracy and speed, but unlike Mr. Amodio, her style of play was traditional. Ms. Schneider favored playing a single category vertically from the lowest to highest score rather than playing across the lucrative bottom row, a style popularized by James Holzhauer, who won $2,464,216 during his 32-game streak in 2019.
The New York Times
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‘Jeopardy!’ Contestant Becomes First Trans Person to Make Tournament of Champions
On Tuesday, Amy Schneider became the first out trans person in the history of “Jeopardy!” to make the Tournament of Champions.
Variety
