Raleigh woman competes on ‘Jeopardy!’ but is no match for Amy Schneider’s historic run
Raleigh lawyer Kate Woomer-Deters reached $9,000 while competing on “Jeopardy!” Monday night.
But she was no match for Amy Schneider, who earned $42,000 and extended her history-making winning streak another day.
Schneider won her 24th day of competition and has racked up close to $1 million, earning $897,600 in winnings so far. She’s the game show’s highest earning woman as well as the woman with the most consecutive wins, The New York Times reports. She also is the first trans person to be eligible for Jeopardy’s Tournament of Champions.
Woomer-Deters, a legal services attorney at the North Carolina Justice Center, ended her game with 14 correct answers. That included a correct Daily Double and a correct Final Jeopardy answer. She wagered $1,000 for her Final Jeopardy question, bringing her total to $9,000 for the game.
But Schneider and fellow contestant Harsh Daga also answered the Final Jeopardy question correctly: “Los Angeles artist George Stanley sculpted this, first handed out at a private banquet on May 16, 1929.”
Answer: What is the Oscar statuette?
Schneider, going into the final round with $31,000, wagered $11,000, bringing her Monday total to $42,000.
Schneider, whose games started airing Nov. 17, continues to climb the all-time “Jeopardy!” winner charts, according to thejeopardyfan.com.
She is currently in fourth overall, falling behind Ken Jennings (No. 1, $2,520,700), James Holzhauer (No. 2, $2,462,216) and Matt Amodio (No. 3, $1,518,601).
Jennings was the host of Monday’s game and noted that Schneider had avoided a “Monday Supercham curse” that had befallen previous big-time winners. (Emma Boettcher, who earned a master’s degree at UNC-Chapel Hill, toppled reigning champion James Holzhauer on June 3, 2019, a Monday, and ended his 32-game winning streak.)
Daga came in third overall with $6,200.
This story was originally published January 3, 2022 at 9:15 PM with the headline "Raleigh woman competes on ‘Jeopardy!’ but is no match for Amy Schneider’s historic run."
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story incorrectly said that Raleigh lawyer Kate Woomer-Deters would take home the $9,000 she earned. As the second-place winner, she will take home $2,000.