Reigning “Jeopardy!”Champion Amy Schneiderhas revealed she was robbed over the weekend.
The 42-year old contestant in the game show has updated his fans. TwitterMonday, she wrote that she felt “sick” “fine”She was robbed of her phone, ID and credit cards on Sunday.
“I then couldn’t really sleep last night, and have been dragging myself around all day trying to replace everything,”She added.
But the robbery hasn’t thrown Schneider off her “Jeopardy!” game. On Tuesday, she emerged victorious yet again on the trivia show, clinching her 25th consecutive win and bringing her total prize money up to $918,000.
Schneider is currently the fourth-highest earning winner in regular season play, behind legends Matt Amodio ($1,518,601), James Holzhauer ($2,462,216) and Ken Jennings ($2,520,700).
The engineering manager from Oakland, California, became the first openly transgender contestant to qualify for a spot in the next tournament of top winners after just five wins earlier this year. Since then, she has spoken out about the importance of having on-screen representation.
“I am so incredibly grateful,” she said in a recent interview with San Francisco station KGO-TV. “Hopefully I can send a positive message to the nerdy trans girl who wants to be on the show too.”
These are the “Jeopardy!” contestant greats, Schneider said she’d like to beat Holzhauer, who won 32 games in a row in 2019, nabbed a total of $2,962,216 in prize money and holds the show record for single-game winnings with $131,127.
‘Jeopardy’ contestant Amy SchneiderWants to send a positive message for the transgender girl
Schneider addressed the transphobic comments she received since appearing on “Jeopardy!”In a TweetOn New Year’s Eve
“I’d like to thank all the people who have taken the time, during this busy holiday season, to reach out and explain to me that, actually, I’m a man,”She wrote. “Every single one of you is the first person ever to make that very clever point, which had never once before crossed my mind”
Amy Schneider makes ‘Jeopardy!’ HistoryWith the fourth-highest regular season winnings
Contributing: David Oliver, Hannah Yasharoff
