Schneider said that doing crossword puzzles helps her think of words "as both a concept and a collection of letters at the same time". That way, if there were any doubles in that category, they would come up when there wasn't as much money to be wagered." Later, she described her wagering strategy in a runaway game with little competition: "round up the second place score to the nearest thousand, double it, subtract it from my score, and then subtract another thousand in case I'd messed something up. Schneider has explained that when she sees a category where she is weak, she gets it "out of the way first. Schneider finished Jeopardy! Masters in 5th place in a match against Andrew He & James Holzhauer. In January 2023, ABC announced a new primetime Jeopardy! spinoff, Jeopardy! Masters, which brings back Schneider along with Amodio, Holzhauer, Sam Buttrey, Andrew He, and Mattea Roach in a Champions League-style event. She was the first openly transgender person to compete in, and to win, the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions. On November 21, she won the tournament, along with its $250,000 grand prize. Schneider appeared in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions that aired in November 2022. Her winnings totaled over $1,300,000, ranking her fourth in most money won in regular-season play behind Jennings, Holzhauer, and Amodio. The "Final Jeopardy!" clue was, "The only nation in the world whose name in English ends in an H, it's also one of the 10 most populous." Talsma responded, "What is Bangladesh?", which was correct, putting him ahead of Schneider who had no response. Schneider was defeated in her 41st episode, aired on January 26, 2022, finishing second behind Rhone Talsma, a librarian from Chicago, Illinois. Schneider, who viewed Freeman's victory and several other trans contestants' losing appearances on the show as inspiration, has described the significance of having a trans identity: "The fact is, I don't actually think about being trans all that often, and so when appearing on national television, I wanted to represent that part of my identity accurately: as important, but also relatively minor." After surpassing Amodio's 38-game winning streak in the January 24, 2022, episode, Schneider took second place for the most consecutive wins in Jeopardy! history at 39, only behind Jennings's 74 consecutive wins. Her winning streak came one year after Kate Freeman became the first openly transgender contestant to win on the show. Schneider is the first openly transgender contestant to qualify for the Tournament of Champions. In total, Schneider has won over $1 million on Jeopardy!, the fifth-most winnings of any contestant on the show in all play. In the following 14 games, she only missed one Final Jeopardy! question. Schneider's first victory occurred on the Novemepisode, dethroning five-day champion Andrew He. Schneider married her partner Genevieve Davis on May 9, 2022, after a three-month engagement. On January 19, 2022, Schneider was awarded a GLAAD Special Recognition honor for her Jeopardy! performance. Schneider is a trans woman she completed gender transition in 2017. Me and my girlfriend said we would find another name for her, but she kept making that noise, and we realized it was the right name." Schneider has a cat named Meep, a name given to her at the shelter before adoption, "because the only noise she would make was 'meep'. On a January 2022 episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Schneider said that she hoped Jennings would become the permanent host of the program, citing his comforting and empathetic presence. Throughout her run on Jeopardy!, she expressed admiration for past champions Ken Jennings, James Holzhauer, Matt Amodio, and Julia Collins (the first woman to win 20 games in a row, at the time Jeopardy!'s second longest streak). In eighth grade, she was voted "Most likely to appear on Jeopardy!" by her classmates. Schneider grew up in Dayton, Ohio, and attended Chaminade-Julienne High School. Across all American game shows, she is the ninth-highest-earning contestant of all time. Schneider is known for her skill in the Final Jeopardy! round, having responded correctly 30 out of 41 times in her run. She is the most successful woman and most successful transgender contestant ever to compete on the show, in terms of both the length of her streak and her $1.6 million in winnings. Winning 40 consecutive games on the quiz show Jeopardy! from November 2021 to January 2022 and the November 2022 Tournament of Champions, she holds the second-longest win streak in the program's history, behind only Ken Jennings (74 games), who hosted the show as she competed. Amy Schneider (born May 29, 1979) is an American writer and game show contestant.
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