Jeopardy! champion from Halifax to pay off student loans with big winnings | CBC News

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A Jeopardy! category about classic games clinched the victory for a 23-year old Canadian.

Roach, who now lives in Toronto and is originally from Halifax, had to keep her big win a secret after the episode was taped in January."I still get chills hearing myself say that I will be able to, when I receive the money, pay off my student loan with the money from last night's game, like I still can't believe it," she said.

But to her surprise, a couple of months later, she was invited to the next stage of auditioning, and eventually flew to L.A. in January to tape the episode. "I was reading through a bunch of recent games in the past, say three or four years, just to get a feel for how the writers design a clue, what sorts of subjects come up more often than not," she said.A 23-year-old Halifax woman swept the board on Jeopardy last night. We ask Mattea Roach what she’ll do with her 32-thousand-and-one dollar winnings."I did not get anything that I'd really been dreading," Roach said. "The two things that I did not want to see were the U.

"Some extended family, like my mom's aunt, uncle and cousin, live in Marion Bridge and decided to get a group together to go watch," she said. "There were some folks there who I've never even met that are just friends and community members up there."

 

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23? Looks 50

Another 150000 she can put a down payment on a house.

I'm gonna ride her

Give a news to public such as hard thing. I appreciate your works.

Anybody know what time and channel? 🤔

Pathetic. If Canadians spent less time playing video games and more time worrying about Covid and actual issues they’d be in a better position globally. The world is laughing at Canada

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