Amy Schneider has won the “Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions” after becoming the first contestant of the series to win three games, which it took six to achieve.
The writer from Oakland, California, is also the first openly transgender participant in the gameshow.
“I’m going to keep going out there and being me,” she said. “Being in places where people like me haven’t been before, it’s a very powerful thing to do.”
Her opponent’s Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco who won two of the six games, and Sam Buttrey, an associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School from Pacific Grove, California, won one game in the series.