Amy Schneider is game to host ‘Jeopardy!’ When she’s done winning it, that is
LOS ANGELES — Before taping a recent episode of “Jeopardy!,” current host and all-time greatest player Ken Jennings had a piece of advice for contestants facing reigning champion Amy Schneider.
“People were potentially a bit intimidated when they heard how well I’d been doing,” Schneider tells the Los Angeles Times, “and so one of the things [Jennings] would say is ... ‘When I was playing, people would be real nervous. They wouldn’t want to hang around me. But the person that eventually beat me was the one that was super friendly and wanted to hang out with me.’"
“And immediately, with perfect deadpan timing, [contestant Clark Dawson] turns to me and says, ‘Amy, I want to hang out with you.’”
It’s easy to understand why “Jeopardy!” hopefuls would want to increase their chances of unseating Schneider. On Friday, the 42-year-old software engineering manager from Oakland won her 33rd straight game, besting James Holzhauer’s 32-day total to secure the third-longest winning streak in “Jeopardy!” history.
