‘Jeopardy!’ Champ Amy Schneider Claps Back At Cheating, DEI Accusations: People ‘Could Go To Jail’

What is … an internet troll?

Amy Schneider buzzed in with a quick response when an X user suggested her 40-game winning streak on Jeopardy! was the result of cheating.

“Was Jeopardy! champ Amy Schneider given insider help to boost DEI? Her 40-game streak raised eyebrows—did producers tip the scales?” read an X comment posted on Sunday, September 7.

“No, I was not. You don’t have to wonder about this any more! Now you can do literally anything else with your life instead,” she replied on X, before giving a more in-depth clapback via the Daily Mail.

“It’s just not true,” Schneider, who is a transgender woman, told the outlet in an interview published on Tuesday, September 9.

The Ohio native, 46, won more than $1.6 million on the hit game show, but she told the Daily Mail that she was shocked to learn that some people think she “threw my last game” because “producers told me to stop winning or something.”

After several quiz shows – beginning with Twenty-One — were exposed for being rigged in the 1950s, “there are very serious laws about that sort of thing, and people in Jeopardy! could go to jail, literally, if that was the case,” Schneider told the Daily Mail.

“They’ve got outside lawyers on set every time you’re taping that are monitoring for that sort of thing,” she continued. “I don’t even know how someone would cheat at Jeopardy! The games are clean.”

Schneider’s winning streak — from November 2021 to January 2022 — is second only to current host Ken Jennings, and she ranks fourth of all time in total earnings.

A Jeopardy! source confirmed to the Daily Mail that she won fair and square. “Amy never got any special treatment, nor was Amy helped to win. The game was on the up and up, each and every time. If cheating was ever to occur, the whole show would cease to exist.”