Amy Schneider’s Historic ‘Jeopardy!’ Win Streak Ends at 40: What an ‘Honor’
27.01.2022 - 17:37
/ usmagazine.com
The end of the road. Amy Schneider’s historic Jeopardy! win streak came to a close on the Wednesday, January 26, episode of the NBC quiz show.
Rhone Talsma beat the engineering manager, accumulating $29,600 to Schneider’s $19,600. By the time the Ohio native left the show, she had earned $1.4 million over 40 episodes.
“I got about $1.2 million more than my best-case scenario in my imagination,” Schneider said, calling the competition an “honor.”
The University of Dayton grad added, “To know that I’m one of the most successful people at a game I’ve loved since I was a kid and to know that I’m a part of its history now, I just don’t know how to process it. I had thought that Rhone was going to be tough going into it. I loved hanging out with him, we had great conversation before the taping, but I could tell that he was here to play and that he was going to be good. I still came very close to winning, but I did feel like maybe I was slipping a little bit. And once it was clear that he was fast on the buzzer, I knew it was going to be a battle all the way.”
Cohost Ken Jennings also called her experience an “honor” to witness, saying, “It was just so amazing to watch. Like, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.”
Schneider’s defeat came three weeks after she passed the $1 million mark during her 28th game.
“I thought I could win some games, but I didn’t think I would do this well,” the California resident told AP earlier this month. “The other day, my girlfriend mentioned some famous people that had gone to her high school, and I was thinking, ‘I know there was somebody who went to mine.’ I looked it up on Wikipedia and there I was, listed under notable alumni. That was a very weird moment to see that.”
Not only does Schneider hold