Nova Scotia native to compete on Jeopardy Tuesday

By Dan Ahlstrand

Posted Apr 5, 2022 09:38:36 AM.

There will be some Nova Scotia content on the television game show Jeopardy on Tuesday night.

Mattea Roach, who now lives in Toronto but is originally from Nova Scotia, is a contestant on the popular program.

According to her Twitter account the 23-year-old has family living in Marion Bridge and a grocery store in that Cape Breton community has posted a sign wishing her good luck.

Roach calls it a display of “extreme Cape Breton behaviour”.

Tuesday's episode of Jeopardy is scheduled for 8:30 Atlantic time on CBS.

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