How did an Upper Arlington librarian who won twice on Jeopardy! fare Tuesday? Spoiler alert

An Upper Arlington Public Library librarian's winning streak ended on Jeopardy! Tuesday night when she incorrectly answered a Double Jeopardy! question on 19th century literature that was, to be fair, almost as much about entomology.

Donna Matturri, who works in the media department at UAPL, won the Jeopardy! game show on Friday and Monday night, earning a total of $40,200 for those two wins.

On her third game Tuesday night, Matturri lost to Dr. Chris Ban, an oral and facial surgeon from Pittsburgh, who was the only one to correctly answer the Final Jeopardy! clue: "In 1896 new spider species were named for a wolf, a panther and a snake from a work published two years earlier by this man."

The answer was Rudyard Kipling. Two American entomologists named the spider species they discovered after characters in "The Jungle Book."

Matturi had $8,400 and held a narrow lead over Ban and her other challenger, Erin Gold, a teacher from Aurora, Colorado heading into the final question. Her incorrect answer and $6,000 wager left her in third place.

With the $1,000 for her Tuesday finish, Matturi earned a total $41,200 over the three shows.

At the top of Tuesday's show, Jeopardy! host Mayim Bialik said Matturri had told her she couldn't wait to call her mother the night before after her win. And added that "she was 'feeling numb, but in a good way.'"

Jeopardy!, "America's favorite quiz show," is a quiz competition that first ran in 1964 and reverses the traditional question-and-answer format of many quiz shows by providing the answer and contestants guess the question.

Matturri has been a librarian for 12 years and told Bialik during the first break she decided to become a librarian after someone approached her while clothes shopping years ago and commented that her glasses were "librarian chic."

"I was like 'yeah, I could do that for a living,'" Matturri said. "I already had the look."

So, she started pursuing graduate schools and entered the next year.

Matturri won Monday with the final Jeopardy category "20th Century Events." The clue was “It was immediately reported ‘the flames are still leaping maybe 30, 40 feet from the ground the entire 811 feet length of this." Matturi correctly responded with Hindenburg airship disaster.

On Friday, she won with the clue of “at age 9 in 1883 she moved west, where she met Annie Pavelka, a young pioneer on whom she would later model a title character.” Matturri was the only player who produced the correct answer, Willa Cather.

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This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Did Upper Arlington librarian continue her Jeopardy! run Tuesday?