Here are 7 triple stumpers from the 12-19-2016 Jeopardy! match.

DOUBLE-NAME NEWSPAPERS ($400) The Omaha World-

($1000) The Louisville Courier- or The Akron Beacon…

TONY BENNETT ($1000) In 2016 the 20th edition of this Las Vegas Gala doubled as my birthday party; with the same name as a Celine Dion love song, it has raised over $100 million in its history. Wow!

SCIENCE NEWS ($2000) The Observatory LIGO has detected 2 of these cosmic objects with souped-up gravity coalescing into one

A NOVEL CATEGORY ($800) 2016’s “End of Watch” completed his trilogy that began with “Mr. Mercedes”

POP CULTURE ($1000) Jerry Seinfeld drove around the White House in a 1963 Stingray with Pres. Obama on an episode of this web series

THEY SAID IT ($2000) This poet said that when “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” came out, “I awoke one morning and found myself famous”

The players got these 4 clues in the NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY category:

($200) George Bancroft, Secretary of the Navy, founded the U.S. Naval Academy in this city

($600) Gerald Ford succeeded him as Vice President of the United States

($800) He was inaugurated
the President of the Republic of Texas on October 22, 1836

($1000) This great orator gave a 3-1/2 hour speech in favor of the Compromise of 1850; his fellow New Englanders didn’t like that

The $800 clue in that category was a Daily Double. It and the other 2 Daily Doubles in the match are on Fikkle Fame’s full Daily Jeopardy! Recap