Raquel Matta is a copy editor from San Pablo, California, United States. Moreover, she is also known as a contestant to appear on the 39th season of the long-running quiz game show, Jeopardy!
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On the new Jeopardy episode, she will compete with two more contestants. It includes the previous episode winner Hannah Wilson, a data scientist from Chicago, Illinois, and Joe Forti, a project manager from Windham, New Hampshire.
Hannah emerged as a new 4-day winner after winning the Monday episode on 8 May 2023. She outscored Juveria Zaheer and Sami Casanova and won $34,200 at the end. As of now, she has a 4-day winning of $124,801.
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Matta is expecting to emerge as a new Jeopardy champion after winning her first appearance on the show. She became eligible to compete on the show after passing the selection process.
Moreover, she is one of the 400 to 450 lucky contestants who gets the opportunity to appear on the show. She will make her Jeopardy debut on Tuesday, 9 May 2023.
Get to know Jeopardy contestant Raquel Matta’s age, wiki, bio, education, job, family, marital status and other details here.
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Raquel Matta Also Competed On Sports Jeopardy!
Well, Raquel previously has experience competing on the quiz game show. She was a contestant in the third season of Sports Jeopardy! in 2016.
The show was somewhat similar to Jeopardy but highlighted sports trivia instead of general knowledge. It was first aired in 2014 and ended after three seasons in 2016.
Matta appeared along with two more contestants; Brad Levin and Terry Kent on the show. However, she ended up being the third on the show with a total score of 4998. Terry became the winner of the episode with a total score of 18,000.
Raquel Matta Wiki, Age & Family
Matta seems to be 55 or 56 years old now. She was born in the year 1967 but there are no details on her actual date of birth.
Hailing from San Pablo, California, she was raised by her family there. However, not much is known about her family and upbringing. As per her surname, she seems to be of Italian descent from her family.
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Raquel is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in History. Moreover, she holds a Master’s in Library & Information Science from San Jose State University.
Raquel Matta Job & Professional Life
Matta is a copy editor by profession. As per her Linkedin, she holds over 13 years of combined experience in the sports, financial, and educational fields.
As of now, she works as a copy editor at The Motley Fool, a private financial and investing advice company. She has been serving in the position since 2017.
Prior to that, she worked in the same position at an online sports website
From 2008 to 2009, Raquel worked as a proofreader at WestEd, a research service in San Fransisco, California. She worked in the same position at
Is Raquel Matta Married?
Matta has not revealed her marital status. She prefers to keep her personal life private.
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Moreover, she does not have a presence on the social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Therefore, it is not known whether she is married or single.
