Mattea Roach has defended her title as returning champion on Jeopardy! as soon as once more as she gained her eighth recreation in a row.
The Halifax native gained one other $14,400 USD in Thursday evening’s episode, dominating her rivals as soon as once more.
In whole, Roach has racked up $182,801 USD, or simply over $230,300 CAD.
In response to Jeopardy!‘s day by day field scores, Roach has answered clues appropriately 93 per cent of tries in all eight video games, with 217 appropriate responses and 16 incorrect ones.
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She is about to return to the present Friday evening to compete in her ninth recreation and defend her title.
In an interview with International’s The Morning Present final week, she mentioned she utilized for the present on-line in the course of the pandemic, as a result of she was “bored” and needed to present it a go.
“The worst factor that occurs is I don’t hear again, and the perfect factor that occurs is perhaps I obtained on the present, so there’s actually no draw back to taking the take a look at. Then I obtained the absolute best end result,” she mentioned.
That very best end result — to date — has allowed her to repay her scholar loans.
After successful her fifth recreation, the 23-year-old additionally secured a spot within the subsequent Event of Champions.
— With recordsdata from Rebecca Lau.
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