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Amy Schneider’s historic run on “Jeopardy!” ended on Wednesday’s episode after a 40-game winning streak.
Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, California, lost Wednesday to Rhone Talsma, a librarian from Chicago. She had a sizeable lead until Final Jeopardy when she dropped to second place after failing to produce an answer against her $8,000 bet. The episode began to air early Wednesday afternoon in certain markets in the Eastern and Central time zones.
Her list of accomplishments during her time on “Jeopardy!” is long: She is the winningest woman in the show’s history and one of only four people to surpass $1 million in regular-season winnings.
Earlier this week, she unseated Matt Amodio to claim the second-place spot for most consecutive games won in the show’s history.
“The best part for me has been being on TV as my true self, expressing myself, representing the entire community of trans people and…just being a smart, confident woman doing something super normal like being on ‘Jeopardy!'” Schneider told George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview on “Good Morning America” Monday morning.
