The contestant with the second highest number of consecutive wins is Amy Schneider. In 2004, Ken Jennings broke the record. Schneider won her 39th game on the episode he hosted. Schneider has won a total of more than a million dollars.
Schneider was the first woman to be among the top all-time winners on the show. She recently penned an essay for Defector on her outstanding accomplishment, and she said that she was born with a brain that retained knowledge well. I don't have a photographic memory or anything like that, so I've spent a lot of time looking for my phone to prove that idea.
She said that unlike most people in history, she wasn't born into poverty and her parents believed in the value of knowledge. I was perceived as male until I was in my twenties. If that hadn't been the case, my intelligence would have been seen as surprising at best, and threatening at worst, which would have impacted my intellectual development. I was never discouraged from acquiring knowledge.
Schneider said that the central idea of the game show is that contestants are required to give their answer in the form on a question, which teaches anunderappreciated skill. The show has a weird kind of syntax on the clues, so that you have to untangle the question before you can even begin to find the answer.
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