The question that finally stumped ‘Jeopardy!’ champ Amy Schneider
nypost.commade history when she won her 39th game and became No. 2 on the game show’s consecutive wins list — and the winningest woman.
But her time at the top ended Wednesday when she lost to Rhone Talsma, a librarian from Chicago.Talsma scored $29,600 while Schneider finished in second place with $19,600.Talsma was sitting pretty after he hit a Daily Double late in the Double Jeopardy!
round and answered correctly. As she headed into the Final Jeopardy! round, Schneider led with a score of $27,600, while Talsma had $17,600.The Final Jeopardy!
category was “Countries of the World.” The answer read, “The only nation in the world whose name in English ends with an ‘H’ and is also one of the the 10 most populous.” The question was: “What is Bangladesh?”While Talsma answered promptly, Schneider didn’t respond.“I had thought that Rhone was going to be tough going into it,” Schneider said in a statement. “I loved hanging out with him, we had great conversation before the taping, but I could tell that he was here to play and that he was going to be good.”She continued, “I still came very close to winning, but I did feel like maybe I was slipping a little bit.
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