What is Lake Superior? According to the television game show Jeopardy! and host Alex Trebek, it’s the place where “the lives of 3 women centuries apart intertwine upon the shores” in Duluth author Danielle Sosin‘s The Long-Shining Waters. The answer/question was part of episode #8030, which aired Friday, July 5, on the CBS network.

The clue was one of five in the “Literary Minnesota” category. Other authors featured were Tim O’Brien, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Garrison Keillor and Vilhelm Moberg. Contestant Ryan Bilger correctly solved each clue in the category.

Sosin’s book was published in 2012 by Milkweed Editions.