‘Jeopardy!’ today: Amy Schneider unseats Matt Amodio today for 2nd most consecutive games won

LOS ANGELES — Amy Schneider continues to climb the “Jeopardy!” leaderboard. Along with her thirty ninth victory on Monday’s episode, Schneider unseated Matt Amodio to assert the second-place spot for many consecutive video games received within the present’s historical past.

Schneider is now second solely to Ken Jennings, who racked up 74 consecutive wins in 2004. Amodio, now in third place, logged 38 wins final 12 months.

As of Monday’s episode, her winnings complete $1,319,800. She is the winningest girl within the present’s historical past and considered one of solely 4 “Jeopardy!” gamers to succeed in seven figures in regular-season winnings.

“It nonetheless feels unreal,” Schneider stated Monday. “Figuring out that I had this opportunity, I used to be positively interested by it. Then Ken stated it, and I assumed, ‘Alright, I simply completed this enormous factor,’ and it was fairly nice.”

Whereas Schneider could have bested Amodio this time round, they each are set to compete within the subsequent version of the Event of Champions.

“I’m positively trying ahead to it. I’m additionally a little bit bit intimidated by it. After I first began, I wasn’t positive if I is perhaps going up in opposition to Matt Amodio and I used to be actually hoping I wouldn’t. And now it seems I’m going to need to anyway,” Schneider informed George Stephanopoulos in an unique interview on “Good Morning America” Monday morning.

She added: “It’s going to be actually difficult; a variety of robust gamers there, nevertheless it ought to be a variety of enjoyable.”

All through her run on the present, Schneider has fulfilled a prediction made by her Eighth-grade classmates in Dayton, Ohio: She was voted most definitely to be a “Jeopardy!” contestant based mostly on her geography and spelling bee prowess.

Extra considerably, she’s the primary overtly transgender particular person to qualify for the present’s event of champions. In a sequence of tweets final November, Schneider stated she’s proud to be a trans girl and needs folks to know that side of her, including, “however I’m a variety of different issues, too!”

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The Related Press contributed to this report.