Schneider wins a hardfought ‘Jeopardy!’ tourney

Forty-game winner Amy Schneider capped her big year by winning a hardfought “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. 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.

“He was definitely someone that I knew could beat me because he very nearly did before, and he did a couple of times here as well,” Schneider said. “Any of the three of us really could have won if a very small number of things had gone differently.”