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VIDEO: THE WINNINGEST WOMAN


VIDEO: THE WINNINGEST WOMAN


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When Amy Schneider took the stage to vie for the championship on the U.S. TV
game show Jeopardy!, she was just another contestant with a buzzer in her hand
and encyclopedic knowledge. As she kept winning day after day, more than 9.2
million people tuned in to root for her, more than those who tuned in to watch
60 Minutes, one of the most viewed programs on network television today. How far
would she get? Would she break Ken Jennings' record of winning seventy-four
consecutive games?

After forty games, her winning streak ended. While she didn't beat Jennings, her
performance was the show’s second longest streak and made her the most
successful woman in the show’s history.

Schneider’s True Self
According to Schneider, she’s an average American. From Dayton, Ohio, she’s a
cat owner, works as a software engineer, founded her high school debate club,
and wears pearls. She also happens to be a transgender woman, a fact that, over
the forty shows and many news interviews, watchers learned was just part of her
identity.

As Schneider told one interviewer, “The best part for me has been being on TV as
my true self. Expressing myself, representing the entire community of trans
people and … just being a smart, confident woman doing something super normal
like being on Jeopardy!”

Schneider’s Show Choices



Wardrobe: Although most contestants probably worry about what to wear, being a
trans woman, she purposefully thought about her appearance. She told The New
York Times that she made a few shopping trips, packed her favorite pink jacket,
and overpacked jewelry before deciding to continue wearing what became her
signature: a string of pearls.



Vocal Pitch: She had considered using a higher pitched voice for the show, but
decided consciously altering her voice could affect her game play. Therefore,
she went with her usual register and has no regrets with the decision. “Trans
women watching can see me with my voice as it is and see me being okay with it,”
she told the Times.

People vary their vocal pitch all the time. Think of those who lower their voice
when they’re talking to a colleague and raise it when they’re talking to a
child. A University of Stirling psychological research study published in PLOS
ONE, explains that people tend to alter their pitch in response to those they
think are dominant and prestigious. In fact, the only people who don’t alter
their pitch are those who “use methods like manipulation, coercion, and
intimidation to acquire social status.”

Why Stories Like Schneider’s Matter
Throughout history, stories are how we’ve learned about each other. Sometimes we
learn about people like us and other times we learn about people with dissimilar
identities. Organizational psychologist Peg Neuhauser found that learning which
stems from a well-told story is remembered more accurately, and for far longer,
than learning derived from facts and figures. And when we read stories of those
with marginalized identities just living their lives, we’re taking powerful
action too:



forming emotional connections



building empathy



gaining a deeper understanding of others’ experiences



letting others know they are not alone in the world


As Schneider wrote for Newsweek:

“It was inspirational for me to see transgender contestants on the show before I
became a contestant and I hope that I am now doing that same thing for all the
other trans Jeopardy! fans out there. I hope I have given them the opportunity
to see a trans person succeed. Until very recently trans people didn't see
themselves doing much out in the world, so to actually see something like this
happen really opens your mind up to possibilities.”

Watch: Here, GLAAD interviews Amy Schneider about her decision to wear the trans
flag pin on Jeopardy! and lets us in on the complications of what might seem to
be a simple choice.


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Just Because It’s Interesting: It may be the trivia version of Ali vs. Frazier
in the fall of 2022. Jeopardy! fans can’t wait to see champs Amy Schneider with
her forty-game winning streak face off against Matt Amodio with this
thirty-eight-game winning streak in the 2022 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions.
They’ll compete against thirteen other players who have won the most games from
the past season.


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Before appearing on Jeopardy!, what was one of the two things mentioned in the
article that Amy Schneider did to prepare?
Please provide an answer
She got her makeup professionally done.
She decided not to talk about being a transgender woman.
She made sure the audience was filled with her friends.
She decided that she would use her natural vocal pitch.
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