What is \u2026 an internet troll?<\/p>\n
Amy Schneider<\/strong> buzzed in with a quick response when an X user suggested her 40-game winning streak on Jeopardy! was the result of cheating.<\/p>\n \u201cWas Jeopardy! champ Amy Schneider given insider help to boost DEI? Her 40-game streak raised eyebrows\u2014did producers tip the scales?\u201d read an X comment posted<\/a> on Sunday, September 7.<\/p>\n \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 she replied on X, before giving a more in-depth clapback via the Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just not true,\u201d Schneider, who is a transgender woman, told the outlet in an interview published on Tuesday, September 9.<\/p>\n Jeopardy!\/YouTube<\/span><\/p>\n The Ohio native, 46, won more than $1.6 million on the hit game show, but she told the Daily Mail that she was shocked to learn that some people think she \u201cthrew my last game\u201d because \u201cproducers told me to stop winning or something.\u201d<\/p>\n After several quiz shows \u2013 beginning with Twenty-One \u2014 were exposed for being rigged in the 1950s, \u201cthere are very serious laws about that sort of thing, and people in Jeopardy! could go to jail, literally, if that was the case,\u201d Schneider told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019ve got outside lawyers on set every time you\u2019re taping that are monitoring for that sort of thing,\u201d she continued. \u201cI don\u2019t even know how someone would cheat at Jeopardy! The games are clean.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/span><\/div>\n