'Jeopardy!' Champion Amy Schneider Joins $ 1 Million Winners' Club

By Morgan Sung -

Amy Schneider, contestant on the popular TV show

just broke the million dollar record for its 28th episode on the

.

This engineering manager is the fourth person in the history of

taking home over a million dollars in cash as a prize.

The $ 42,200 he earned on Friday brings his total to 1,019,001.

"It feels wonderful, strange," said Schneider, who

.

"It is not an amount of money that I anticipated ever being associated with my name," he said.

Schneider, an engineering manager in the city of Oakland, California, made history a month ago by being

.

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Ken Jennings, who hosts the show in its 38th season alongside actress and neuroscientist Mayim Bialik, is the top-earning contestant playing on

.

Jennings had a total of $ 2,520,700 during his 74-win streak.

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Other million-dollar champions are James Holzhauer, who had 2,462,216 in 32 games, and Matt Amodio, who won 1,518,501 in 38 games.

Schneider will have a chance to increase his earnings on Monday's episode.

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The participant announced on Sunday on the social network Twitter that someone stole her cell phone, credit cards and identity document.

"Hi all!

First of all: I'm fine.

I was robbed yesterday, I lost my ID, credit cards and cell phone.

Then I couldn't sleep last night and I had to toss and turn all day trying to replace everything, ”Schneider tweeted Monday afternoon.