Forty-game Jeopardy! champ Amy Schneider brought her winning streak to a close tonight, losing to challenger Rhone Talsma and taking home a total $1,382,800 in winnings.Schneider’s run of 40 wins puts her in the No.
2 spot on the all-time consecutive victories list behind only Ken Jennings (74 wins). Schneider’s $1,382,800 is the fourth highest on the all-time regular season cash winnings list behind Matt Amodio ($1,518,601), James Holzhauer ($2,462,216), and Jennings ($2,520,700).On tonight’s episode, Schneider lost to Talsma, a librarian from Chicago who finished in first place with a score of $29,600 to Schneider’s $19,600.“I had thought that Rhone was going to be tough going into it,” Schneider in a statement following the contest. “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.
I still came very close to winning, but I did feel like maybe I was slipping a little bit. And once it was clear that he was fast on the buzzer, I knew it was going to be a battle all the way.”Added Schneider, “It’s really been an honor.
To know that I’m one of the most successful people at a game I’ve loved since I was a kid and to know that I’m a part of its history now, I just don’t know how to process it.”Talsma hit a key Daily Double late in today’s Double Jeopardy!
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