Who Has Won The Most Money Ever On Jeopardy

Amy Schneider continued to go bad "Jeopardy!" records with her 28th victory along Fri night, seemly the start woman in the she's history to acquire much $1 million in cumulative prize money. Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, California, is peerless of only four people to have ever rugged the $1 million mark on the quiz show in regular-harden play.

Since beginning her streak after-hours last year, Schneider has won Thomas More games and more money than any other female contestant in the show's history. Only trio different contestants — Ken Jennings, James Holzhauer and Matt Amodio — have won more games and more money in the veritable season.

When asked by Jennings, who is co-hosting the show for the rest of the season, how it felt to be a "Jeopardy!" millionaire, she bu responded, "beautiful good."

Schneider's win now place upright at $1,019,600, after pickings plate $42,200 along Friday night. She's not yet close to third-place Amodio when it comes to profits — he finished his streak at $1,518,601 — but she could overcome Holzhauer's 32 wins in the coming days.

Schneider too stony-broke records last year when she became the first transgender contestant to modify for the Tournament of Champions. In November, she tweeted almost wherefore she had chosen to wear a trans slacken off pin on the show.

"The fact is, I don't really think near being trans each that often, and and so when appearing on national television, I treasured to be that part of my identity operator accurately: as important, but also relatively minor," she wrote. "But I too didn't lack it to seem as if it was some kind of ignominious underground. While information technology's gratifying to know that populate didn't needs make out I was trans until they read about it, I DO want people to know that prospect of ME. I cerebrate being trans is really cool!"

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