Amy Schneider Just Made Jeopardy! History Yet Again

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00:00Already at Jeopardy! legend, contestant Amy Schneider has been on a roll recently.

00:05In December, Schneider, who is an engineering manager from Oakland,

00:09California, became the first transgender contestant to qualify for the Tournament of Champions.

00:13After January 14th's game, she broke the record for most consecutive wins by a female contestant,

00:19after becoming the first woman to earn $1 million in Jeopardy! winnings a week prior.

00:24She also became the new third-place record holder, replacing another longtime Jeopardy!

00:28champ James Holzhauer, but she's since climbed higher in the ranks.

00:32After winning on January 24th, Schneider surpassed Matt Amadeo's 38-game streak with her 39th win.

00:39As of the making of this video, Schneider is on a 40-game winning streak,

00:43putting her behind only Ken Jennings, who had a whopping 74 straight wins.

00:48Her 40-day total winnings? A stunning $1,382,800.

00:54However, Schneider says she isn't as confident as she may make it seem on TV,

00:58specifically referencing the January 4th episode. She tweeted,

01:01"'Well, that one was a bit closer. George and Greg kept me sweating about

01:05whether I'd manage the runaway down to the last Daily Double.'"

01:08She also thanked her fellow contestants in the tweet for keeping it a really competitive game.

01:13Schneider's streak has been hot enough to earn speculation as to whether she might replace

01:17the late Alex Trebek as the permanent show host. Schneider told the Los Angeles Times on January 17th,

01:23"'It would certainly be a cool experience. It's a lot harder than it looks. Whether I'd

01:27actually even be good at it, I don't know. But yeah, I'd certainly consider it if somebody asked.'"

01:32In a January 24th Good Morning America interview, Schneider enthused about using

01:36her sudden fame as a way of representing the transgender community, saying,

01:40"'I think that the best part for me has been being on TV as my true self,

01:43expressing myself and representing the entire community of trans people,

01:47and just kind of showing a different thing than maybe some people have seen of just being a smart,

01:52confident woman and just doing something super normal like being on Jeopardy!'

01:56Schneider, who was voted most likely to appear on Jeopardy! in the eighth grade,

01:59also spilled some interesting secrets to her success. She said, quote,

02:03"'Being curious and spending my life learning a lot of stuff is the main secret.'"

02:07While also noting that she practices buzzing in by clicking a ballpoint pen.

02:12"'I was good in school. I got good grades. I won the spelling bee.'"

02:16Alas, it hasn't been all sunshine and rainbows for the Jeopardy! champ,

02:19as she has been subjected to transphobic bullying online. But make no mistake,

02:24she's not one to back down. She tweeted,

02:26"'I'd like to thank all the people who have taken the time during this busy holiday season to reach

02:30out and explain to me that actually I'm a man. Every single one of you is the first person ever to

02:35make that very clever point, which had never once before crossed my mind.'"

02:39Still, Schneider is quick to point out that she has many other layers aside from being transgender.

02:44She explained in an interview with the Daily Beast,

02:47"'Being trans is an important, huge foundational part of my identity and also not. I'm not going

02:53on Jeopardy! to be trans on Jeopardy! I'm going on Jeopardy! to try to win some money.'"

02:57"'That there's not an area in life in which we can't succeed and excel.'"

03:03While Schneider may be well-versed in putting online trolls in their place, she was perhaps not equally as

03:08ready to deal with the traumatic ordeal of being robbed following her 21st consecutive win on the

03:13popular game show. She tweeted on January 3rd,

03:16"'Hi, all. So first off, I'm fine. But I got robbed yesterday. Lost my ID,

03:21credit cards, and phone. I then couldn't really sleep last night and have been dragging myself

03:25around all day trying to replace everything.'"

03:28Upon learning the news, a representative for Jeopardy! issued a statement that read,

03:31"'We were deeply saddened to hear about this incident, and we reached out to

03:35Amy privately to offer our help in any capacity.'"

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