“Jeopardy!” contestant Amy Schneider is heading into Monday’s episode with a winning streak, joining the few openly trans winners on the show, and is thanking the trans competitors who came before her.
Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, California, became a three-day champion on Friday’s episode with $110,200 in winnings after she entered the Final Jeopardy round $25,000 ahead of her competitor and wagered a whopping $15,000.
The 20th-century American authors are the Final Jeopardy category. Schneider correctly answered that Harper Lee and Truman Capote were the two authors and childhood friends with exhibits at the Old Courthouse Museum in Monroeville, Alabama.
“I could have bet up to 24,999, and I considered it. But it’s hard,”Schneider sent a series tweets during the weekend. “As it was, I was betting the price of a car, which just felt wrong. But it paid off again, and I’d topped $100K in total winnings! I’ll repeat that: ONE. HUNDRED. THOUSAND. DOLLARS. I mean, I still can barely believe it, and I just watched it happen on national tv.”
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Friday’s win happened coincidentally on the last day ofTrans Awareness WeekWhichEvery year, runs from Nov. 13-19.
Schneider is not the only openly trans person to take part in the long-running gameshow. She pointed out that Schneider is not the first openly trans person to compete on the long-running game show. “handful”Kate Freeman was the first transgender champion last year, and she came before her.
“My thanks to all of them for blazing the trail!” Schneider tweeted.
She also addressed backlash Viewers who felt it was insensitive for the show to include a category titled “Naturalized Woman,”This included questions about famous American women who were not born here but became naturalized citizens. USA TODAY reached out “Jeopardy!”Representatives are available for additional comment.
“There wasn’t actually anything wrong with it, and I had forgotten it entirely until I watched the episode today,”Schneider. “But I think it’s clear it landed differently with a trans woman on stage, which is unfortunate.”
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