{"id":1747832,"date":"2022-11-22T09:47:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T14:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1747832"},"modified":"2022-11-22T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T14:48:00","slug":"trans-identifying-jeopardy-contestant-amy-schneider-wins-tournament-of-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-identifying-jeopardy-contestant-amy-schneider-wins-tournament-of-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans-Identifying \u2018Jeopardy!\u2019 Contestant Amy Schneider Wins \u2018Tournament Of Champions\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrans-identifying-jeopardy-contestant-amy-schneider-wins-tournament-of-champions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1747832&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/transgender\">Trans-identifying<\/a> contestant Amy Schnieder made history again on the show by winning the $250,000 prize on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jeopardy\">Jeopardy!: Tournament of Champions<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schneider defeated fellow contestants Andrew He and Sam Buttrey, securing the top spot after winning three games. Schneider is the first trans-identifying contestant to win the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel amazing,\u201d Schneider said in a statement following the big win. \u201cEarlier in the finals, I had this sudden moment of seeing myself and being like, \u2018I\u2019m on stage in the Tournament of Champions finals,\u2019 and that was crazy. And I won! It\u2019s a great feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cJeopardy!: Tournament of Champions\u201d began October 31. It featured 21 contestants who won at least four games since the 2020 tournament along with winners of the National College Championship, the Professors Tournament, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/television\">game show\u2019s<\/a> first Second Chance faceoff, Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/amy-schneider-wins-jeopardy-tournament-champions\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Schneider made headlines during a winning \u201cJeopardy!\u201d streak, and the contestant was celebrated for being the woman with the most \u201cJeopardy!\u201d wins. This narrative was widely accepted despite the fact that the Oakland resident was born a biological male.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood Morning America\u201d cheered Schneider on during a news segment that month, saying, \u201cShe\u2019s well on her way, but I\u2019ve just got one question to ask. Who runs the world? Girls!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The woman with the most \u201cJeopardy!\u201d wins prior to Schneider being awarded that title congratulated Schneider for having a winning streak, as The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trans-jeopardy-contestant-amy-schneider-ends-winning-streak-on-this-question\">reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, it was fun to hold a Jeopardy record for a few years\u2026but it\u2019s been even more fun to watch @Jeopardamy set new standards for excellence, on the show and off,\u201d record-setting woman Larissa Kelly tweeted at the time. \u201cCongratulations to Amy on becoming the woman with the highest overall earnings in the show\u2019s history!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schneider sarcastically addressed critics in a Twitter post on December 31, sharing, \u201cI\u2019d 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\u2019m a man. Every single one of you is the first person ever to make that very clever point, which had never once before crossed my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following Schneider\u2019s first loss, the \u201cJeopardy!\u201d contestant issued a statement on what the winning streak meant. \u201cIt\u2019s really been an honor,\u201d Schneider said. \u201cTo know that I\u2019m one of the most successful people at a game I\u2019ve loved since I was a kid and to know that I\u2019m a part of its history now, I just don\u2019t know how to process it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trans-identifying contestant Amy Schnieder made history again on the show by winning the $250,000 prize on \u201cJeopardy!: Tournament of Champions.\u201d Schneider defeated fellow contestants Andrew He and Sam Buttrey, securing the top spot after winning three games. Schneider is the first trans-identifying contestant to win the tournament. \u201cI feel amazing,\u201d Schneider said in a statement &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1747835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1747835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}