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m Forty-game winner Amy Schneider capped her big year by winning a hard-fought "Jeopardy!" tournament of champions in an episode that aired Monday. Schneider, a writer from Oakland, Calif., won three games in the finals, narrowly beating Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco, who won two games. The third contestant, Sam Buttrey, was another Californian, who won one game. Schneider had a 40-game winning streak earlier this year, the second-longest in the show s history, which began when she defeated He. She said she both wanted to compete again with He, known for his cold-blooded big bets on the Daily Doubles, and feared him. "He was definitely someone that I knew could beat me because he very nearly did before, and he did a couple of times here as well," Schneider said. "Any of the three of us really could have won if a very small number of things had gone differently." Schneider led He by $1,400 going into Final Jeopardy, where the prompt was

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