Nova Scotia’s Mattea Roach wins Jeopardy! for the 4th time, winnings top $100K

Roach, a 23-year-old originally from Halifax, handily beat her two opponents and won $24,200 USD — bringing her total winnings over four days to just over $131,400 CAD.

For the fourth night in a row, Mattea Roach once again did her home province proud by earning herself another big win on the popular game show Jeopardy! Friday night.

Roach, a 23-year-old originally from Halifax, handily beat her two opponents and won $24,200 USD — bringing her total winnings over four days to $104,600 USD, or just over $131,400 CAD.

This makes Roach a “six-figure champion,” and puts her in an “excellent position” to compete in the tournament of champions, noted host Mayim Bialik.

Roach graduated from Sacred Heart School in Halifax in 2015, and her family still lives in Halifax and Cape Breton. She now works as a tutor, based in Toronto.

The young woman first won her first $32,001 on Tuesday night’s episode. That evening, she got a question about Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers correct, and made a point of saying she “couldn’t get it wrong” because it was her home province.

Then on Wednesday night, she won another $38,000, correctly answering 35 out of the 60 clues during the episode — a feat Bialik called “very impressive.”

Her winning streak continued on Thursday, where she took home another $9,599. While she answered the Final Jeopardy! round clue incorrectly, so did the other two contestants.

Roach said in a Twitter thread Friday evening, ahead of the latest episode, that while Thursday’s performance didn’t quite match the first two, she “managed to eke out a win in the end!”