Amy Schneider's Jeopardy! Run Ends With Loss to Queer Librarian
Jeopardy! run has come to an end.Schneider, the top-performing out transgender contestant in the show’s history, lost Wednesday to Rhone Talsma, a librarian from Chicago.
He is also a member of the LGBTQ+ community, identifying as queer.Schneider’s loss came after she won 40 consecutive games, second only to current Jeopardy!
host Ken Jennings, who won 74 straight games in 2003. She is in fourth place for all-time regular season cash winnings with $1.382 million, behind Matt Amodio ($1.518 million), James Holzhauer ($2.462 million), and Jennings ($2.52 million).
She is the top female winner in Jeopardy! history and the first woman to pass the million-dollar mark.“It’s really been an honor,” Schneider said in a press release from the show’s production company. “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’s win was enabled by hitting a Daily Double late in the Double Jeopardy!
