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Toledo woman appeared on Monday night's Jeopardy!

Joanne Mercer, a local nurse, took on record-setting champ Amy Schneider.

TOLEDO, Ohio — Monday evening's episode of Jeopardy! featured a contestant from Toledo.

Joanne Mercer, a registered nurse, made her appearance on the show that aired on WTOL-TV.

Mercer's appearance turned into a one-show stand as the record-setting Jeopardy! winning streak of Amy Schneider continued and she won Monday's game. 

Schneider, a Dayton native now living in Oakland, Calif., has tallied 38 straight wins, tying the game show's second-longest winning streak. Schneider also has won more than $1.3 million on the show. 

Schneider, the first transgender person to qualify for the tournament of champions, is the fourth contestant to eclipse $1 million in the regular season.

Other local residents who have appeared on Jeopardy include Siena Heights University associate professor of English and Tecumseh, Mich., resident Dana Schumacher-Schmidt, who was a contestant last April, and John Presloid, the  University of Toledo researcher who was a contestant in 2019. 

In 2015, Erin Saelzler, a Cardinal Stritch alum from Oregon, appeared as a contestant and in 2016, Toledoan Stephanie Schlatter represented the 419 on the show.

 

                                                    

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