Can Amy Schneider beat Matt Amodio’s streak on ‘Jeopardy!’

This picture supplied by Jeopardy Productions Inc. exhibits sport present champion Amy Schneider on the set of “Jeopardy!” Schneider is closing in on Matt Amodio’s 38-game successful streak.

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Amy Schneider has been breaking information on “Jeopardy!” left and proper. She is already the one girl to surpass $1 million in winnings, per The New York Instances.

However now, the engineering supervisor leveling as much as surpass Yale Ph.D. candidate Matt Amodio’s 38-game streak, making her an excellent champion with the second-highest variety of consecutive wins within the present’s historical past. (Host Ken Jennings holds the title for the primary highest with 74 wins in 2004.)

Her $1,307,200 price of winnings are already closing in on Amodio’s winnings of $1,518,601.

“Once I first began (on ‘Jeopardy!’), I wasn’t positive if I is likely to be going up towards Matt Amodio, and I used to be actually hoping I wouldn’t. And now it seems I’m going to need to anyhow,” she mentioned on “Good Morning America.”

• “So it’s going to be actually difficult … a whole lot of sturdy gamers there. Nevertheless it must be a whole lot of enjoyable.”
• Within the interview, she gave credit score to her curiosity and the flexibility to study a whole lot of issues for her streak of winnings. Jennings has additionally given Schneider some nice recommendation: “He’s restricted in what he can inform me as a result of he’s the host; he has to remain impartial and no matter,” she mentioned. “However the recommendation he offers to all of us earlier than each sport is simply to calm down and have enjoyable and benefit from the second. And that’s positively one thing I’ve been making an attempt to do.”

Final week, she surpassed 32-streak legend James Holzhauer.