{"id":762303,"date":"2022-01-23T02:43:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T02:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/23\/amy-schneider-matches-matt-amodios-second-place-jeopardy-record\/"},"modified":"2022-01-23T02:43:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T02:43:15","slug":"amy-schneider-matches-matt-amodios-second-place-jeopardy-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/23\/amy-schneider-matches-matt-amodios-second-place-jeopardy-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Schneider matches Matt Amodio&#8217;s second-place &#8216;Jeopardy!&#8217; record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Amy-Schneider-matches-Matt-Amodios-second-place-Jeopardy-record.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 22 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Amy Schneider matched Matt Amodio&#8217;s second-place <i>Jeopardy! <\/i>record this week for consecutive wins.<\/p>\n<p>Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, Calif., tied Yale University computer sciences Ph.D. student Amodio&#8217;s record by reaching 38 consecutive wins Friday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeopardy.com\/contestant-zone\/toc-tracker\">leaderboard shows. She has also won over $1.3 million.\n<\/p>\n<p>In the 38th game alone, she won $54,000 after winning $71,400, her highest amount in a single day to date, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>She won against Milwaukee Ph.D. student Avinash Rajendra and an office manager from Georgia, Kore Carey, on Friday, correctly answering two Daily Doubles and entering &#8220;Final Jeopardy&#8221; nearly $29,000 ahead of her second-place competitor.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, she hit professional sports gambler James Holzhauer&#8217;s 32-game winning streak, leaving her tied for third among contestants for consecutive wins.<\/p>\n<p>Schneider<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jeopardamy\/status\/1482080439141421056\"> tweeted<\/a> about the third-place tie for consecutive wins: &#8220;one thing that may no may not be coming across is just how much fun I was having during all this!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The winning is nice, sure, but it was also just a rewarding experience to be so focused on one particular thing,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Schneider now stands behind only the current host Ken Jennings, who won 74 games straight during a streak in 2004, in the longest consecutive winning streak.\n<\/p>\n<p>She is also fourth place in total amount of money won in regular season play, trailing Jennings, Holzhauer and Amodio.<\/p>\n<p>Schneider, whose run began on Nov. 17, is also the highest-earning female contestant in the show&#8217;s history and the first transgender person to make the Tournament of Champions. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 22 (UPI) &#8212; Amy Schneider matched Matt Amodio&#8217;s second-place Jeopardy! record this week for consecutive wins. Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, Calif., tied Yale University computer sciences Ph.D. student Amodio&#8217;s record by reaching 38 consecutive wins Friday, the leaderboard shows. She has also won over $1.3 million. In the 38th game alone, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":762304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}