Hanford came up on Jeopardy! The question stumped all but the winner

One Jeopardy! contestant knew her Manhattan Project history this week.

The final clue all three game show contestants had to answer included Hanford.

The answer on the screen — the game show gives the answer and contestants provide the question — was:

“(Established) in 2015, the Manhattan Project National Historical Park has sites in Hanford, Washington; Los Alamos, N.M.; & this Tennessee city.”

Jennifer Quail, a wine tasting consultant from Michigan, was the only contestant to write down the correct question: What is Oak Ridge?

She was the leader going into the final round and it cinched her victory.

Quail was competing against a scientific illustrator from California and a literary agency assistant from New York, according to TheJeopardyFan.com recap.

“Oh so easy!” the historical park posted to its Facebook page.

The three-site national park was established to tell the story of the people, the science and the engineering that led to the creation of the atomic bomb, helping end World War II.

The Hanford nuclear reservation just north of Richland built B Reactor, the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor, in less than a year. It produced the plutonium for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

Visitors can tour the B Reactor, from spring through fall.

Jeopardy! contestants don’t seem to do well with Hanford questions.

When contestants were asked in March 2018 about the Hanford site, all three were stumped.

The clue then in the $2,000 category was: “The world’s first production plutonium reactors were at this site that still has a lot of cleanup to do.”

B Reactor was the first production reactor built at Hanford, followed by eight other along the Columbia River by the end of the Cold War.

This story was originally published December 13, 2019 at 5:00 AM.