{"id":2007660,"date":"2025-09-09T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2007660"},"modified":"2025-09-09T00:00:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T00:00:01","slug":"no-amy-schneider-wasnt-a-dei-winner-on-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/no-amy-schneider-wasnt-a-dei-winner-on-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Amy Schneider wasn&#8217;t a DEI winner on &#8216;Jeopardy!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/tag\/amy-schneider\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Amy Schneider;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Amy Schneider<\/a>, who won more than $1.6 million on <em>Jeopardy!,<\/em> had a pointed response to an online troll who wondered if she was \u201cgiven insider help\u201d to boost the quiz show\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/tag\/diversity-equity-and-inclusion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:diversity, equity, and inclusion;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">diversity, equity, and inclusion<\/a>, presumably because she\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/tag\/transgender\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:transgender.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">transgender.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"mb-4 border-l-2 pl-5 italic text-tertiary\"\/>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWas Jeopardy! champ Amy Schneider given insider help to boost DEI?\u201d a user going by El Dingo Goat wrote on X, formerly Twitter. \u201cHer 40-game streak raised eyebrows \u2014 did producers tip the scales?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cOoh, I actually have direct, first-hand information regarding this question!\u201d Schneider replied. \u201cNo, I was not. You don\u2019t have to wonder about this any more! Now you can do literally anything else with your life instead.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Schneider, then a software engineer and now a full-time writer, had her 40-game streak in 2021-2022 and went on to win that season\u2019s Tournament of Champions, for a total of $1,682,800 in winnings. She is the top woman contestant in terms of both regular-season and overall winnings, and she is the first out trans contestant to qualify for the Tournament of Champions. Her 40-game streak puts her behind Ken Jennings, now the <em>Jeopardy! <\/em>host, who won 74 consecutive games in 2004.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"mb-4 border-l-2 pl-5 italic text-tertiary\"\/>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bringing positive transgender representation to TV was \u201cthe most rewarding part of the whole experience\u201d on <em>Jeopardy!,<\/em> Schneider told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/television\/2022\/1\/12\/jeopardys-amy-schneider-positive-trans-visibility-priceless\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Advocate;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><em>The Advocate<\/em><\/a> in 2022. She has sometimes responded to transphobic trolls on her X feed, but mostly she has analyzed the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She has published two books:<em> In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life, <\/em>a memoir that came out in 2023, and a version of the book for young readers, <em>Who Is Amy Schneider?: Questions on Growing Up, Being Curious, and Winning It Big on Jeopardy!,<\/em> which came out this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Advocate: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/news\/amy-schneider-takes-down-troll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:No, Amy Schneider wasn't a DEI winner on 'Jeopardy!';elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">No, Amy Schneider wasn&#8217;t a DEI winner on &#8216;Jeopardy!&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Schneider, who won more than $1.6 million on Jeopardy!, had a pointed response to an online troll who wondered if she was \u201cgiven insider help\u201d to boost the quiz show\u2019s diversity, equity, and inclusion, presumably because she\u2019s transgender. \u201cWas Jeopardy! champ Amy Schneider given insider help to boost DEI?\u201d a user going by El [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2007661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[343838,366485,306826,366484],"class_list":["post-2007660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-amy-schneider","tag-el-dingo-goat","tag-ken-jennings","tag-the-advocate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/No-Amy-Schneider-wasnt-a-DEI-winner-on-Jeopardy.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}