{"id":764877,"date":"2022-01-25T00:04:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T00:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/25\/watch-amy-schneider-on-jeopardy-win-streak-i-never-expected-to-do-this-well\/"},"modified":"2022-01-25T00:04:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T00:04:43","slug":"watch-amy-schneider-on-jeopardy-win-streak-i-never-expected-to-do-this-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/25\/watch-amy-schneider-on-jeopardy-win-streak-i-never-expected-to-do-this-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Amy Schneider on &#8216;Jeopardy&#8217; win streak: &#8216;I never expected to do this well&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Amy-Schneider-on-Jeopardy-win-streak-I-never-expected-to-do-this-well.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 24 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Reigning <i>Jeopardy!<\/i> champion Amy Schneider discussed her success on the quiz show Monday while appearing on <i>Good Morning America<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Schneider, a 42-year-old engineering manager who is transgender, returns to <i>Jeopardy!<\/i> on Monday where a win would take her to second place on the all-time consecutive wins list ahead of Matt Amodio.\n<\/p>\n<p>Amodio is currently tied with Schneider with 38 wins while current host Ken Jennings leads with 74 consecutive wins. Schneider has won over $1.3 million in total.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never expected to do this well, but I think the main secret is just being curious and spending my life learning a lot of stuff,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GMA\/status\/1485601025507614723\">Schneider t<\/a>old <i>GMA&#8217;s<\/i> George Stephanopoulos.<\/p>\n<p>Schneider said Jennings advised her to relax, have fun and enjoy the moment. She also discussed the best part of her experience on <i>Jeopardy!<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that the best part for me has been being on TV, you know, as my true self, expressing myself and representing the entire community of trans people,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Schneider&#8217;s winning streak has resulted in high television ratings for <i>Jeopardy!,<\/i> as the game show was the highest-rated non-sports program across broadcast and cable television for the week of Dec. 27 to Jan. 2, Entertainment Weekly reports. Each episode averages 9.7 million viewers.\n<\/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. 24 (UPI) &#8212; Reigning Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider discussed her success on the quiz show Monday while appearing on Good Morning America. Schneider, a 42-year-old engineering manager who is transgender, returns to Jeopardy! on Monday where a win would take her to second place on the all-time consecutive wins list ahead of Matt Amodio. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":764878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764877","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\/764877","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=764877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}