The end of the road. Amy Schneider’s historic Jeopardy! win streak came to a close on the Wednesday, January 26, episode of the NBC quiz show.Rhone Talsma beat the engineering manager, accumulating $29,600 to Schneider’s $19,600.
By the time the Ohio native left the show, she had earned $1.4 million over 40 episodes.“I got about $1.2 million more than my best-case scenario in my imagination,” Schneider said, calling the competition an “honor.”The University of Dayton grad added, “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.
I had thought that Rhone was going to be tough going into it. 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.”Cohost Ken Jennings also called her experience an “honor” to witness, saying, “It was just so amazing to watch.
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