Halifax’s Mattea Roach won her 21st “Jeopardy!” game Tuesday night, taking home another $29,599 USD, thanks in part to a Final Jeopardy! clue about “O Canada”.
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Mattea Roach has defended her title as returning champion on “Jeopardy!” once again as she won her eighth game in a row.
The Halifax native won another $14,400 USD in Thursday night’s episode, dominating her competitors once again.
In total, Roach has racked up $182,801 USD, or just over $230,300 CAD.
According to “Jeopardy!”‘s daily box scores, Roach has answered clues correctly 93 per cent of tries in all eight games, with 217 correct responses and 16 incorrect ones.
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She is set to return to the show Friday night to compete in her ninth game and defend her title.
In an interview with Global’s “The Morning Show” last week, she said she applied for the show online during the pandemic, because she was “bored” and wanted to give it a go.
“The worst thing that happens is I don’t hear back, and the best thing that happens is maybe I got on the show, so there’s literally no downside to taking the test. Then I got the best possible outcome,” she said.
That best possible outcome — so far — has allowed her to pay off her student loans.
After winning her fifth game, the 23-year-old also secured a spot in the next Tournament of Champions.
— With files from Rebecca Lau.
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shared a tweet Monday promoting their article about Roach’s win, writing: “The 23-year-old lesbian tutor from Toronto has amassed a total of $320,081, the most by a Canadian contestant in ‘Jeopardy!’ history.”The phrasing elicited some angry responses from fans for explicitly pointing out that Roach was part of the LGBTQ+ community. “Is her sexual orientation really relevant here?” one asked.“This is such a weird tweet,” another said, with another chiming in: “Agreed… the wording is so horrible.”Is her sexual orientation really relevant here? https://t.co/HJAV0d70TQ“Try this: Congratulations to Mattea Roach, Canadian tutor, for her amassed sum of $320,081, the most won by a Canadian contestant in ‘Jeopardy!’ history,” one person chimed in.Another penned: “And somehow, in all the coverage of Mattea here in Canada, not once has her sexuality been mentioned…because it doesn’t have anything to do with her success on ‘Jeopardy!’”“I will so enjoy the day when posts highlighting someone’s sexuality are a thing of the past.
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