

Jeopardy Season 39 returned with a brand.

On Friday, Mattea Roach, a 23-year-old tutor from Toronto, clinched her 14th straight win, earning the eighth most. "But I also didn't want it to seem as if it was some kind of shameful secret. Todays game changed Sams fate as he got his first win in the finals of Jeopardy Tournament of Champions 2022. Look out, Amy Schneider theres a new 'Jeopardy' champion on the rise. "The fact is, I don't actually think about being trans all that often, and so when appearing on national television, I wanted to represent that part of my identity accurately: as important, but also relatively minor," she tweeted in November, referencing a transgender pride flag pin she wore on the show. Numerous articles have come out in recent weeks questioning the sudden increase in Jeopardy players with winning streaks, and Tom Nichols, a five-time champion of the long-running game show, believes he has the answer. His total winnings, including tournaments, of almost 5 million. But she still has a long way to go before upsetting Ken Jennings' records: $2,520,700 over 74 games.Īn Oakland resident and engineering manager, Schneider has been extremely vocal about her success on the show and the response she receives as an out and proud transgender woman. Brad Rutter remains the all-time biggest winner of Jeopardy according to the game show’s Hall of Fame. Amy Schneider added another notch to her Jeopardy belt with her 38th consecutive win, tying Matt Amodio for the second-place record.

She is $406,801 away from overtaking Matt Amodio's third-place spot for highest regular season play winnings, and only five games away from tying Ammodio's second-place streak of 38 games. Schneider without a doubt sits among the all-time Jeopardy greats like Ken Jennings (who is now one of the permanent Jeopardy hosts), James Holzhauer, Buzzy Choen, Matt Amodio, Mattea Roach, Brad Rutter and Julia Collins. But despite her wins, it was not until Friday that she reached Holzhauer, Matt Amodio or Ken Jennings, who made up the top three for consecutive games won and for total regular-season winnings.
