Nova Scotia’s Mattea Roach earns another $30,000 in 6th Jeopardy! win
Mattea Roach’s profitable streak on Jeopardy! has now reached six video games.
The 23-year-old gained one other $30,000 USD on Tuesday evening, for a complete of $148,000, or $187,300 CAD, since she began the favored TV sport present.
Roach was dominating Tuesday’s episode, together with her winnings greater than tripling that of her competitors.
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Within the last spherical, Roach secured her win by being the primary to reply a clue concerning the “menace that haunts the Atlantic off our southeastern coast.”
She bid $5,400 for her “What’s the Bermuda Triangle?” response, which was right.
Her sixth win means the RisePEI native qualifies to be thought of as a competitor within the Match of Champions.
In an interview with International’s The Morning Present final week, she mentioned she utilized for the present on-line through the pandemic, as a result of she was “bored” and wished to offer it a go.
“Like, the worst factor that occurs is I don’t hear again, and one of the best factor that occurs is possibly I received on the present, so there’s actually no draw back to taking the take a look at. Then I received the absolute best final result,” she mentioned.
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N.S. Jeopardy! contestant’s profitable streak reaches 5 video games
That absolute best final result — up to now — is the flexibility to repay her pupil loans and an opportunity to seem in a future Match of Champions sport.
Roach can be again on Wednesday’s episode to defend her title of returning champion. She is ready to compete in opposition to California bookseller Rachel Skytt and Chicago-based airline planning analyst Adam Wallick.
— With recordsdata from Rebecca Lau.
