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Former biz reporter appears on Jeopardy

Sarah Shemkus, a former business reporter for the Cape Cod Times in Massachusetts, appeared on the game show Jeopardy! on Monday.

Cynthia Mccormick of The Times writes, “For viewers Monday night, it was a fast-paced show, as Shemkus correctly answered the first Daily Double and spit out one fact after another.

“Answer: From the Latin for road, it means to depart from the norm. Question: What is ‘deviate’?

“Answer: The history of the Liberty Boston Hotel. Question: What is a prison?

“But after acing a string of posers about authors, a wrong turn on another Daily Double cost Shemkus $4,000.

“Still, the contest was close right up to the end, with host Alex Trebek saying it was a fitting contest to wrap up the year.

“In Final Jeopardy, the category was composers’ birthplaces, and only Menasche was able to match the answer with the correct question: This composer was born in 1811 in a town now in far eastern Austria that at the time belonged to another country.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.