Canadian Matea Roach makes headlines while gaining victory after victory in Jeopardy! this spring.
Heading to the game scheduled for Thursday, the Toronto-based teacher won 17 games – enough wins to put her on the show’s top 10 list when it comes to regular season wins.
So far, no one from Canada has won more games in a row than Roach.
Check cross 28:50 Ask me everything: Matea Roach for the Jeopardy race!
Canadian Matea Roach is currently in the middle of one of the longest strips in Jeopardy! history. She answers listeners’ questions about the danger! champion in Ask Me Anything. 28:50
But the Canadian runners before her had an impressive run of their own.
Here’s a look back at some of the many game winners who have spoken to CBC News over the years about their Jeopardy! adventures.
5 wins for a veteran of a game show
Jeopardy champion Barbara-Ann Eddie
Barbara-Ann Eddie from Vancouver talks about a big win at Jeopardy and other TV quizzes. (Image source: Sony Pictures) 3:23
In 1988, Barbara-Anne Eddie of Vancouver won five games on the show, earning $ 52,000 – an extraction worth more than $ 128,000 today as it adjusts for inflation.
But Eddie was no newcomer to curious facts, as she had competed in numerous game shows over the years. (The Globe and Mail, for example, reported that it competed for $ 128,000 and was able to answer the question of the same name.)
She appeared on CBC’s lunchtime after an impressive performance. Host Valerie Pringle wanted to know if participating in game shows was “some way to make a living.”
Eddie’s answer may have surprised people watching at home.
“You can only go that far as a game show participant, and I think I’ve actually reached my peak,” Eddie said.
3 wins and a cameo Bad cameo
Kevin Wilson was a threat! a fan for many years before entering the show in 2009.
It would be worth waiting for a communications specialist who grew up near the Canadian-US border in Windsor, Ont.
Actors Brian Cranston and RJ Mitte played a father-son duet in Breaking Bad on television. One episode of the show included a video from Jeopardy !, which in turn extended the time of Canadian Kevin Wilson in the spotlight from his personal series of three games in the game show. (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)
“I was up against a friend named Terry Linwood, who was a five-time champion, and things started slowly and then went very well for about the second half of the first round and the first half of the second round,” Wilson told CBC’s Afternoon Drive in 2015. .
“And then Terry found his fashion again and he caught up with me, right at the end with the last question and to his regret, and I got Final Jeopardy right and bet everything but a dollar, and he got Final Jeopardy wrong and I left. almost $ 40,000 [US] richer this day. “
Wilson eventually won three games at Jeopardy !, but that’s not the end of his moment in the spotlight – because his gameplay was later featured in an episode of AMC Breaking Bad’s Emmy Award-winning crime drama Half Measures.
In the episode, the main character of the show Walter White (played by actor Brian Cranston) and his son Walt Jr. (played by actor RJ Mitte), watch Jeopardy! game. Wilson is seen on the screen and Trebeck is heard talking to him.
“I’m still waiting for my Emmy for that,” Wilson joked.
The teacher who prepared his competition
Ali Hassan, who lives in New Westminster, British Columbia and teaches in nearby Surrey, won three episodes of the American quiz show Jeopardy! in 2018 (Antonin Sturles / CBC)
Ali Hassan, a teacher from New Westminster, British Columbia, won three games in the program in 2018.
Like many of his fellow Canadian champions, he has watched Jeopardy! long before he could hold a buzzer in his hand and stand on stage next to Trebeck, who has since died.
In fact, Trebek called Hassan a one-man Canadian invasion.
“When I was on the show, I remember two things from that time,” Hassan later recalled, speaking to the CBC after Trebeck’s death in 2020.
“One was how clever Alex Trebeck was, how quickly he made up these jokes and these zingers, and his wit was just amazing. And the other was his handshake. When we had to shake hands, his handshake, I remember, was so hard and so strong. “
3 wins and one dream come true
Ottawa’s Grant Maxheffrey won three games when he competed in Jeopardy !. (CBC)
Ottawa’s Grant Maxheffrey has fulfilled his childhood dream of being a Jeopardy !.
Well, that dream came true and he actually became the champion of three games in the games broadcast in March 2017.
The software developer and Blackberry employee tweeted that he was grateful for the support he received during his successive victories.
The first champion of Prince George, BC
As early as 2013, Matthew Church became the first contestant from Prince George, British Columbia, to win at Jeopardy !.
By winning the next game, he also became – in addition – the first player of Prince George, who is a two-time champion.
And with tonight
– @matthewchurch
Church earned more than $ 30,000 in the United States, and he later told the CBC that the money helped him with his medical school education.
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