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Among her challengers will be Matt Amodio and Amy Schneider, who are also in the “Jeopardy!” top five of longest winning streaks for their work this year. Roach will return to compete in the game show’s Tournament of Champions this fall. You know, it’s strange, obviously I didn’t come through in the last one, but I still feel so happy and so lucky to have had this experience.” “I really came down here hoping to maybe win one game and so I still can’t believe it. Amy pulled off her 33rd straight victory on Friday and bested James Holzhauer’s 2019 record of 32 game-wins. Story continues below advertisement On Wednesday’s episode, Roach beat her closest competitor. , Mega champion Amy Schneider has reached another monumental milestone in her record-breaking streak she is now the third longest running contestant in Jeopardy history. “It feels still kind of like a dream,” Roach said. Jeopardy champion-turned-host Ken Jennings holds the record with 74 consecutive wins in 2004. Roach was wrong, Maurer was right, and she bet enough to win. One week after Rhode’s loss, Andrew He kicked off his own five-game winning.

The correct response was: “Who are William Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson?” Fisher fell to Nancy Donehower, who faced Tyler Rhode in her next game Rhode won that as well as the next four games. The category was USA, and the clue was: “These two mayors gave their names to a facility built on the site of an old racetrack owned by Coca-Cola magnate Asa Candler.” But the Final Jeopardy question was about the name of Atlanta’s airport, right near where Maurer lived. Unlike her second-to-last match, Roach went into the final question with the lead Friday. She has one of the five longest winning streaks in “Jeopardy!” history, but didn’t come close to Ken Jennings’ record of 74 consecutive wins.ĭanielle Maurer, a marketing manager from Peachtree Corners, Georgia, beat Roach on Friday’s show by a margin of $15,600 to $15,599. Amy Schneider Wins 39th Straight ‘Jeopardy’ Game, Second Most in the Record Books.

Mattea Roach, a tutor from Toronto, earned $560,983 during her run on the game show. The reigning champion’s consecutive victory streak trails only Ken Jennings. CBS Media Ventures Madden earned 430,400 over his 19-day streak. Ken ($2,520,700), James Holzhauer ($2,462,216), Matt Amodio ($1,518,601) and Jason Zuffranieri ($532,496) occupy the top four spots.NEW YORK (AP) - The latest long-time champ on “Jeopardy!” has seen her winning streak end at 23 - by a single dollar. Art historian David Madden enjoyed a 19-game winning streak in 2005. Shortly after, Jeopardy!’s official Instagram and Twitter accounts announced that Amy was now fifth in the show’s record books for the highest winnings for regular-season play. According to the Jeopardy subreddit, Chan has ten games, nine wins, and nine runaways under his belt, making it the seventh longest consecutive runaway streak after host Ken Jennings, James. On Thursday, Amy won her 12th consecutive game and significantly increased her total earnings to a whopping $483,000. But as it turns out, it was just the beginning for the California resident. Afterward, Amy revealed that during Final Jeopardy! she was actually taking in what she thought were her last moments on stage with host Ken Jennings. Ken Jennings Likely the most recognizable Jeopardy contestant of all time, Jennings ripped off an incredible 74-night winning streak in 2004 that earned him over 2.5 million, and with tournament winnings at 3,370,700 he reached No. In 2021, contestant Matt Amodio won 38 consecutive games, earning the second highest number of consecutive wins. The engineering manager originally from Ohio started off her streak with an impressive win when she beat five-time Jeopardy! champion Andrew He on November 17.

Now, with 12 consecutive wins under her belt, she’s quickly climbing the charts on the beloved game, and there are no signs of her slowing down. Amy Schneider was in awe when she was first declared the latest Jeopardy! champion.