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Schneider wins a hard-fought ‘Jeopardy!’ tournament
Forty-game winner Amy Schneider capped her big year by winning a hard-fought “Jeopardy!” tournament of champions in an episode that aired Monday.
Schneider, a writer from Oakland, California, won three games in the tournament finals, narrowly beating Andrew He, a software developer from neighboring San Francisco, who won two games.
The third contestant, Sam Buttrey, was another Californian who won one game.
Schneider had a 40-game winning streak earlier this year, the second longest in the game show’s history, which began when she defeated He.
Schneider led He by $1,400 going into Final Jeopardy, where the prompt was: “The January 12, 1864 Washington Evening Star reported on a performance of this ‘dashing comedy’ to ‘a full and delighted house.’”
The correct response: “What is ‘Our American Cousin?’ ”
Schneider and He both answered correctly, but Schneider made the bigger bet. She won the $250,000 grand prize, He won $100,000 for second place and Buttrey won $50,000.
On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theatre in Washington.
Tarantino responds to critics: ‘See something else’
Quentin Tarantino is not changing his creative process to appease fans.
The “Pulp Fiction” director, 59, appeared on HBO Max and CNN’s “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” on Friday where he addressed controversy over the violence in his movies and having actors in his films use racial profanity.
“You talk about being the conductor and the audience being the orchestra. So when people say, ‘Well there’s too much violence in his movies. He uses the N-word too often.’ You say what?” host Chris Wallace asked Tarantino.
Tarantino responded, “Then see something else.”
“If you have a problem with my movies then they aren’t the movies to go see. Apparently I’m not making them for you,” the director said.
Tarantino was widely criticized for his 2012 film “Django Unchained,” which repeated the racial slur over 100 times.