- Amy Schneider’s “Jeopardy” run ended Tuesday night after 40 games.
- Rhone Talsma of Chicago, a librarian, dethroned the engineering manager.
- Schneider held many leads in Final Jeopardy. But she was only able to solve a handful of clues.
Amy Schneider’s record-breaking “Jeopardy!” runThe end is finally here.
Two days later Being the second-ever winner of the game show on Monday, the engineering manager from Oakland, California, lost to Rhone Talsma, a Chicago librarian.
Schneider earned over $1.3 million during her 40-day winning streak. She trails only Ken JenningsThe game show’s 2020 Greatest of All Time winner and host of the syndicated quizshow. Jennings holds a record of 74 consecutive games. This record was set in 2004.
What is a RECORD-BREAKING RUNN?’:Amy Schneider was defeated in ‘Jeopardy! After 40 games, Amy Schneider was defeated on ‘Jeopardy! After 40 games, she realized that she was in trouble.
She became known for her calm demeanor and and often held huge leads by the time the game reached ‘Final Jeopardy.’
Schneider, however, was stumped by only a few clues throughout her run. These clues were chronicled by J! ArchiveFans were occasionally shown incorrect responses by, Would you have got any of these correct?
1. Stopping hostilities between fruit juices
Category: $800 in BEVERAGE RHYMES (Nov. 17).
Schneider’s answer: “What – no”
Correct answer: What is a juice truce?
2. 1956’s “Dalmatians”2003’s less “People You Meet in Heaven.”
Category: BOOK TITLE MATH (Nov. 23)
Schneider’s answer: What is 94?
Correct answer: How many is 96? (“101 Dalmatians”Minus “Five People You Meet in Heaven”)
3. Nero used this disaster to excuse himself from persecuting Christians in Rome, 64 A.D.
Category: JESUS & NERO (Nov. 29)
Schneider’s response: What is the eruption Vesuvius?”
Correct answer: What was the fire that caused Rome to burn?
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4. Mid-Atlantic town where you can find the cryptof John Paul Jones.
Category: THE MID ATLANTIC STATES, Dec.
Schneider’s answer: What is Philadelphia?
Correct answer: What’s Annapolis?
5. It is a statement or proposition which, despite sound reasoning leads to a self contradictory conclusion.
Category: 7 Letter Words (Dec. 20).
Schneider’s answer: What’s an oxymoron?
Correct answer: What’s a paradox?
6. Two very large plates slide past each others through a transform fault, such as the San Andreas.
Category: GEOLOGY, Dec. 21
Schneider’s answer: What are continental plates?
Correct answer: What is tectonic plate?
7. “La Galatea”The first novel he wrote, “The Greatest Love Story” was published in 1585. This was 20 years before his most well-known work.
Category: NOVELS & NOVELISTS (Dec. 24)
Schneider’s answer: Who is Defoe?
Correct answer: Cervantes.
8. The word fake used to refer to metalworking.
Category: THAT’S BOGOUS (Dec. 28, 2008)
Schneider’s response: What’s a dummy?
Correct answer:
9. In this museum, a medieval tapestry depicting the Norman conquest in England in 1066 hangs.
Category: EURO-POURRI (Jan. 4)
Schneider’s answer: What is the Guadalquivir?
Correct answer: What is the Tagus River?
10. Baltimore beat Oakland to win the 1971 conference championship. Ray Perkins, this great quarterback, made the winning touchdown pass of 68 yards in the fourth quarter.
Category: CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP HEROES (Jan. 26)
Schneider’s answer: Who is Namath?
Correct answer: Who is Johnny Unitas?
Contributing: Erin Jensen
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