Canadian "Jeopardy!" super-champ Mattea Roach earned the fifth-longest streak within the TV quiz present's historical past along with her win on Monday evening's episode.
The 23-year-old tutor from Toronto is tied for the spot with Julia Collins, whose 2014 run lasted 20 video games.
It is the longest streak of any Canadian to seem on the present.
Roach has additionally introduced within the sixth-biggest haul of any contestant in common season play, incomes US$476,985so far.
To maneuver to Quantity 4 on the checklist, Roach would wish to match James Holzhauer's 32-game streak.
Roach has mentioned she's honoured to be a flag-bearer for Canada on what's now often known as the Alex Trebek stage.
"That is at all times going to be part of how I am remembered -- as this consultant of Canada and one of the best Canadian to go on," she mentioned in an interview with The Canadian Press forward of her thirteenth recreation. "I hope somebody sometime is much more successful than I'm."
It has been an indicator season for "Jeopardy!" streaks, beginning with Matt Amodio.
After amassing 18 wins in Season 37, he continued his run in the beginning of Season 38. His streak stretched for one more 20 wins, placing him -- on the time -- within the Quantity 2 spot.
He can be unseated simply months later by Amy Schneider, who received 40 video games.
She's second solely to now-host Ken Jennings, who received 74 straight video games in 2004 and raked in US$2,520,700, not counting his winnings throughout tournaments.
The present's regular-season report books do not stretch again a lot farther than that. Whereas "Jeopardy!" first aired in 1964, there was a five-game win restrict in place till 2003.
However Brad Rutter, who received all 5 allowable video games in 2000, has returned for tournaments within the intervening years and now has the all-time greatest haul -- US$4,938,436.
Tournaments included, Jennings has received US$4,370,700.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Could 2, 2022.
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