Amy Schneider continued her Jeopardy! winning streak tonight with her 39th game, becoming the second winningest contestant in the show’s history behind Ken Jennings.With today’s victory, the engineering manager from Oakland, California, became No.
2 on the game show’s all-time consecutive wins list, with her winnings now totaling $1,319,800.Jennings has held the top spot with 74 wins since 2004 (he has been hosting Jeopardy!
during Schneider’s streak).“It still feels unreal,” said Schneider in a statement. “Knowing that I had this chance, I was definitely thinking about it.
Then Ken said it, and I thought, ‘Alright, I just accomplished this huge thing’ and it was pretty great.” Schneider beat the 38-game record set earlier this season by Matt Amodio, who is now No.
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