She is already the first woman to surpass $1 million in winnings on the show.
The category is: game-show legends. If she manages one more victory on Monday’s episode, the current “Jeopardy!” phenom, Amy Schneider, will surpass Matt Amodio’s 38-game streak, making her the contestant with the second highest number of consecutive wins in the show’s history. Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, Calif., often seems unbeatable with buzzer in hand. According to statistics published by the show, of the clues that she has answers, she has given the correct response 95 percent of the time, and she has answered Daily Double clues correctly 86 percent of the time. She became the first woman to surpass $1 million in winnings on the show, and in the 38 games she has won so far, Schneider has amassed $1.3 million. But as “Jeopardy!” fans saw at the end of Amodio’s streak a few months ago, a seemingly unstoppable contestant can falter or meet their match at any point. If Schneider beats Amodio’s streak, her next goal post is far away: beating Ken Jennings’s 74-game streak from 2004, which remains the longest in history.
