Amy Schneider reaches the $1 million Jeopardy! earnings mark with 28th consecutive victory

Amy Schneider winning on the January 7, 2021 edition of “Jeopardy!”
Photo: Screenshot/Jeopardy!

In an episode that aired on January 7th, defending champion Amy Schneider once again won the episode by finishing with a total of $42,200. That brings her total earnings from the show to more than $1 million, a mark only three other people in the show’s regular competition history have ever achieved.

“It feels amazing, it feels strange,” the out trans woman said in a statement released afterward. “It’s not a sum of money I ever anticipated would be associated with my name.”

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“What a week, what a champion!” host Ken Jennings quipped at the end of the episode.

Schneider has been on the show since November 17, when she won during Trans Awareness Week, and she has proven victorious in every episode to air since, excluding the special series episodes aired throughout the last two months. Her current total is $1,019,600.

She tweeted today in her ritualistic post-game thread on the episode, “Anyway, there’s…

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