Amy Schneider Becomes Highest-Earning Woman in 'Jeopardy!' History

I have not heard it mentioned on the show that "Amy" is a tranny, but my wife and I surmised as much immediately. After looking up "Amy Schneider" online it was confirmed that she was not born female. I, too was confused about the girlfriend and the tub. Doesn't make sense to have a sex change to be fake lesbian.

So far, Amy has been a machine and does not look beatable. I won't go so far as to say the show is rigged, but I do think they do things to keep winning strakes going. My theory is that when they get a strong multi-game winner that they start scheduling 2nd and third tier qualifiers to go up against them. I think the qualifiers probably are assigned a score, and that even though they qualified I think some are lower seeded than others. I think those cannon fodder qualifiers are then thrown against one of the big winners to perform the same task the Washington Generals performed against the Globetrotters. The champion is by then quite proficient with the buzzer while the weak challengers are like deer in the headlights.

You could see this when Matt Amodio went down. After weeks of playing against slow and weak players, he suddenly came up against two players who both beat Matt and could have beat anyone else. It was as if the show runners had decided it was time for Matt's reign to end.

I think you’re on to their scheme.

Ratings have been in the sewer since Alex died. Manufacturing an all-time great may be the only chance to bring them back. When it didn’t work with 38-consecutive game winner Amodio a couple months ago, they decided to up the ante with a tranny freak.

Aside from fixing games in the manner you described, which I think is spot on the money, they can also be fixed by buzzer manipulation. A split second delay on the buzzers of a favored player’s opponents is all it takes.

What are the chances that 2 of the top 4 winners in the show’s very long history happened within a few months of each other when the ratings desperately needed a boost, and one of the winners is a politically fashionable gender deviant?

“I’ll take 1 in a Million for $200, Alex.”

I believe I read once that the buzzers work in such a way that if you try to buzz in before the question (answer) is completely read, you are locked out for a second or nanosecond as a penalty (far different from the Art Fleming days where players buzzed in almost immediately). So, the people who are multi-day champs have their buzzer skills honed while the challengers are still learning the ropes.

I have liked Mayim Bialik as the host and I hope she gets the full time gig. She's funny and has a personality. I notice that Johnny Gilbert introduces her as "the host of Jeopardy", whereas Ken Jennings is merely referred to as "hosting Jeopardy". My wife and I watch it primarily as a brain exercise. I read a lot of history and can usually ace those categories. If I miss one I feel I should have known, it tells me I may need to brush up on that period. We both do poorly on African and Asian geography. Since I mainly read about western civilization, I have tended to ignore those areas of the world. And we both are bad at modern pop culture (because we don't care about it).

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