{"id":769436,"date":"2022-01-28T04:14:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T04:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/28\/watch-amy-schneider-on-jeopardy-streak-ending-hard-to-be-that-sad\/"},"modified":"2022-01-28T04:14:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T04:14:44","slug":"watch-amy-schneider-on-jeopardy-streak-ending-hard-to-be-that-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/28\/watch-amy-schneider-on-jeopardy-streak-ending-hard-to-be-that-sad\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Amy Schneider on &#8216;Jeopardy&#8217; streak ending: &#8216;Hard to be that sad&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Amy-Schneider-on-Jeopardy-streak-ending-Hard-to-be-that-sad.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ZYjlE12Xm8k\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amy Schneider breaks silence after ending historic \u2018Jeopardy\u2019 winning streak\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZYjlE12Xm8k?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 27 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Amy Schneider discussed her 40-game winning streak coming to an end on Jeopardy! while appearing on <i>Good Morning America<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Schneider, a 42-year-old engineering manager who is transgender, was eliminated on Wednesday&#8217;s installment of <i>Jeopardy!<\/i> after she lost to Rhone Talsma, a librarian from Chicago who earned $29, 600 to Schneider&#8217;s $19,600.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He deserved it. He did a great job. It&#8217;s hard to be that sad when I&#8217;ve done so much better than I expected,&#8221; Schneider told <i>GMA<\/i> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is it. I know the answer of how far I go. It&#8217;s 40 and that&#8217;s something that, I could never be disappointed in winning that many games,&#8221; she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Schneider had earned the show&#8217;s second-longest win streak at 40 games and the fourth highest cash winnings at $1,382, 800. Current host Ken Jennings holds the records for most consecutive wins at 74 and highest winnings at $2,520,700.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was coming to an end somehow and I couldn&#8217;t quite explain it. I definitely think part of that was once I passed Matt Amodio, the next milestone of Ken Jennings&#8217; streak still just felt unfathomably far away,&#8221; Schneider said.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just sort of seemed like I had done all I could do,&#8221; she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Schneider also addressed the trans community during the interview.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Specifically to trans people out there, anything you wanted to do before you can still keep chasing those same dreams,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 27 (UPI) &#8212; Amy Schneider discussed her 40-game winning streak coming to an end on Jeopardy! while appearing on Good Morning America. Schneider, a 42-year-old engineering manager who is transgender, was eliminated on Wednesday&#8217;s installment of Jeopardy! after she lost to Rhone Talsma, a librarian from Chicago who earned $29, 600 to Schneider&#8217;s $19,600. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":769437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769436","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\/769436","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=769436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}