Going into the match scheduled to air on Thursday, the Toronto-based teacher had won 17 matches – several wins to put her on the show’s list of top consecutive regular season wins. At this point, no Canadian has won more games in a row than Roach. Cross Country Check 28:50 Ask me anything: Mattea Roach is competing in Jeopardy! Canadian Mattea Roach is currently in the middle of one of the biggest streaks in Jeopardy! history. Answers listeners’ questions about what a danger it is! champion in Ask Me Anything. 28:50
But the competitors from Canada who came before her had an impressive series of victories. Here’s a look at some of the winners of many games who have spoken to CBC News over the years about their danger! adventures.

5 wins for a veteran of the game

Jeopardy champion Barbara-Anne Eddy

Vancouver Barbara-Anne Eddy talks about winning big at Jeopardy and other TV quiz shows. (Source: Sony Pictures) 3:23
In 1988, Barbara-Anne Eddy of Vancouver won five games on the show, bringing home $ 52,000 – an amount worth more than $ 128,000 today, when adjusted for inflation. But Eddie was not a beginner, as he had competed in many game shows over the years. (The Globe and Mail, for example, reported that it had competed in The $ 128,000 Question and was able to answer the question of the same name.) She appeared on CBC Noon after her impressive run. Host Valerie Pringle wanted to know if participating in toy shows was “a way to make a living”. Eddie’s answer may have surprised the people watching at home. “You can go as far as competing in a toy show and I think, in fact, I’ve reached my peak,” Eddie said.

3 wins and one spot in Breaking Bad

Kevin Wilson was a danger! fan for many years before appearing on the show in 2009. It would be worth the wait for the communications professional who grew up near the Canada-US border in Windsor, Ont. Actors Bryan Cranston and RJ Mitte played a father-son duo on the television show Breaking Bad. One episode of the show featured an excerpt from Jeopardy !, which, in turn, extended the time of Canadian Kevin Wilson to the forefront of his personal three-game series on the game show. (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)
“I was facing a teammate named Terry Linwood, who was a five-time champion, and things started slowly and then went very well for me 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 mojo again and caught me, right at the end with the last question and unfortunately for him, and I got the Final Jeopardy right and I bet everything except a dollar and he got the Final Jeopardy wrong and I walked from there, almost $ 40,000 [US] richer that day “. Wilson eventually won three games at Jeopardy !, but his time in the spotlight did not end there – because his gameplay later appeared in an episode of AMC’s Emmy Award-winning drama Breaking Bad, entitled “Half Measures”. In the episode, the series stars Walter White (played by actor Bryan Cranston) and his son Walt Jr. (the role of actor RJ Mitte), watch Jeopardy! game. Wilson appears on the screen and Trebek can be heard talking to him. “I’m still waiting for my Emmy on this,” Wilson joked.

The teacher who commented on his competition

Ali Hasan, who lives in New Westminster, BC and teaches in nearby Surrey, has won three episodes of the American Jeopardy quiz! in 2018. (Antonin Sturlese / CBC)
Ali Hasan, a teacher from New Westminster, BC, won three games in the program in 2018. Like many of his fellow Canadian champions, he watched Jeopardy! long before he holds a buzzer in his hand and stands on stage next to Trebek, who has since died. Trebek, in fact, 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 CBC after Trebek’s death in 2020. “One was how smart Alex Trebek was, how fast he made these jokes and these jingers and his intelligence was just amazing. And the other was his handshake. When we got to shake his hand, his handshake, I remember , he was so stable and so strong “.

3 victories and a dream come true

Ottawa Grant McSheffrey won three games while competing in Jeopardy !. (CBC)
Grant McSheffrey from Ottawa fulfilled a childhood dream of being in danger !. Well, that dream came true and he actually became the champion of three races in races that aired in March 2017. The software developer and Blackberry employee posted on Twitter that he was grateful for the support he had received during his consecutive wins.

The first champion from Prince George, BC

In 2013, Matthew Church became the first Prince George, BC contestant to win at Jeopardy !. Winning the next game, he also became – by extension – the first Prince George player to become a two-time champion. And tonight – @ matthewchurch
Church earned more than $ 30,000 and later told CBC that the money helped him with medical school tuition.