Woman starts 2022 by getting robbed, then makes history by earning $1 million on game show
Luck took a good turn for Amy Schneider when the Californian won a huge sum of money on Jeopardy!, just days after being robbed. She’s now one of the most successful contestants ever in the iconic show’s nearly six-decade run.
Schneider earned $42,000 during her 28th consecutive win on Friday, bringing her total winnings to $1,019,001. The prize money has made her just the fourth contestant, as well as the first woman and the first transgender person, to win over $1 million in regular season play.
“It feels amazing, it feels strange,” Schneider, a software engineering manager in Oakland, said after the game. “It’s not a sum of money I ever anticipated would be associated with my name.”
The win came days after Schneider tweeted that she had been robbed, losing her phone and credit cards.
On the New Year’s Eve, she left a message apparently directed at people who make transphobic remarks.
“I’d like to thank all the people who have taken the time, during this busy holiday season, to reach out and explain to me that, actually, I’m a man,” Schneider tweeted. “Every single one of you is the first person ever to make that very clever point, which had never once before crossed my mind.”
In the iconic trivia quiz show, which was first shown on NBC in 1964, contestants earn and lose money by answering questions from the categories they pick on the dashboard. The quickest person to press a buzzer button gets to answer first.
In 2004, Ken Jennings was the first player to earn over $1 million after winning 30 consecutive games.
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Posts on the social media platform will reportedly be called ‘truths’ and ‘re-truths’
Former President Donald Trump’s ‘TRUTH Social’ app is due to be released on February 21, according to a listing on the Apple App Store, paving the way for the venture to launch on Presidents’ Day.
The social media platform, developed by the Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), is available to pre-order and will go live in the latter half of February, according to The Guardian.
Similar to Twitter, the site will give users the ability to follow one another, discuss trending topics, and post a message called a ‘truth’. Reposting another user’s post will be called a ‘re-truth’ (similar to a retweet on Twitter), according to The Verge.
A February launch for Trump’s alternative social platform would come roughly 13 months after the former president was booted off Facebook and Twitter.
In the final days of his presidency, both companies took the step of deplatforming him over his comments around the January 6 Capitol riot, saying he was spreading false claims of fraud about the 2020 presidential election.
The app’s release is reportedly set to be part of the company’s three-stage development plan, with the second stage thought to be a video-on-demand service and the third possibly being the launch of a podcast network.
TMTG faces potential challenges ahead of the launch of its various media endeavors, with the company’s merger with Digital World Acquisition Corp for $875 million facing possible regulatory issues.
In December, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to investigate the deal over potential violations of securities law. The SEC has not revealed whether it will investigate or take action against the company.
TMTG and Apple have not publicly commented on the reported release date of the app.
