The clue on the first Wednesday of “Jeopardy!” Season 43, $800: I’ve had fun in Correctionville, but it’s time to leave the Midwest; US-20 West starts us off to SUX, the airport serving this city
Writers (for which there was temporarily a staff vacancy but not now) should know that the style should be “U.S. 20” or “US 20”, certainly not a hyphen. That’s the type of thing that online mapping services do because they* don’t know better. (The Jeopardy Archive caught this too. Ha!)
The bigger issue is that this was nearly a Triple Stumper. The only reason it wasn’t, was that a wrong buzz near the end of time of “Sioux Falls” reset the clock for the returning champion to guess, “What is Sioux City?”
This airport code has a reputation! Sioux City tried to change it twice! There’s official merchandise now!
The Midwest remains a mysterious place on the Jeopardy board.