Nova Scotia’s Mattea Roach earns 9th ‘Jeopardy!’ win, prize money tops $200K
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Mattea Roach's Jeopardy! winning streak continues after the 23-year-old took home another $28,001 Friday night. She will be back on the TV quiz show on Monday.
The winning streak continues for Nova Scotia’s Mattea Roach, who won the popular TV quiz show Jeopardy! for the ninth time Friday night.
Roach added another $28,001 in winnings, bringing her total earnings to $210,802 USD.
The 23-year-old originally from Nova Scotia secured her win during the “Final Jeopardy” category of “Academy Award Winners.”
The clue was: “In 2019, he won his first competitive Oscar, 36 years after a Student Academy Award for a film about a Brooklyn barbershop.”
Roach, who bid $6,201, wrote “Who is Spike Lee?” which was the correct answer.
According to Jeopardy!‘s daily box scores, Roach has answered clues correctly 93 per cent of the time in all nine games, with 239 correct responses and 17 incorrect ones.
Roach will now try to win her 10th game when she returns to the show on Monday.
In an interview with Global’s The Morning Show last week, Roach said she applied for the show online during the pandemic, because she was “bored” and wanted to give it a go.
