{"id":16411,"date":"2026-09-22T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16411"},"modified":"2026-09-19T01:09:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T06:09:37","slug":"jeopardy-season-starts-with-iowa-related-near-whiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/09\/jeopardy-season-starts-with-iowa-related-near-whiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeopardy season starts with Iowa-related near-whiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The clue on the first Wednesday of &#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221; Season 43, $800: <em>I&#8217;ve had fun in Correctionville, but it&#8217;s time to leave the Midwest; US-20 West starts us off to SUX, the airport serving this city<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Writers (for which there was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/jeopardy-writer-job-hiring-michael-davies\">temporarily a staff vacancy but not now<\/a>) should know that the style should be &#8220;U.S. 20&#8221; or &#8220;US 20&#8221;, certainly not a hyphen. That&#8217;s the type of thing that online mapping services do because they* don&#8217;t know better. (<a href=\"https:\/\/j-archive.com\/showgame.php?game_id=9535\">The Jeopardy Archive caught this too.<\/a> Ha!)<\/p>\n<p>The bigger issue is that this was nearly a Triple Stumper. The only reason it wasn&#8217;t, was that a wrong buzz near the end of time of &#8220;Sioux Falls&#8221; reset the clock for the returning champion to guess, &#8220;What is Sioux City?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This airport code has a reputation! Sioux City tried to change it twice! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/the-wall-street-journal_the-city-that-learned-to-be-proud-that-it-activity-7128019175289036800-pWx4\">There&#8217;s official merchandise now!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Midwest remains a mysterious place on the Jeopardy board.<\/p>\n<h5>*This is a royal They, because there are interconnected issues with everything from local authorities to state DOTs to whoever&#8217;s in charge of coding that part that day.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clue on the first Wednesday of &#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221; Season 43, $800: I&#8217;ve had fun in Correctionville, but it&#8217;s time to leave the Midwest; US-20 West starts us off to SUX, the airport serving this city Writers (for which there was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/09\/jeopardy-season-starts-with-iowa-related-near-whiff\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16411"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16414,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16411\/revisions\/16414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}