'Jeopardy!' champ Schneider to appear in SF
She may have had her "Jeopardy!" winning streak snapped, but champion Amy Schneider will be at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco next week for a virtual and in-person event to talk about her history-making run on the TV quiz show.
Schneider, of course, fell from the top ranks of the popular game show January 26, after 40 consecutive wins and earnings of nearly $1.4 million.
Schneider was bested by Rhone Talsma, a librarian from Chicago, during a Final Jeopardy response that involved this clue: "The only nation in the world whose name in English ends in an H, it's also one of the 10 most populous." Schneider came up with a blank response.
Talsma wrote down, "What is Bangladesh?" This earned him $29,600. Thus, Talsma became the new "Jeopardy!" champion, but he lost the next day.
