Here are 8 triple stumpers from the 11-29-2018 Jeopardy! match.

LET’S PUT RUTHERFORD B. HAYES IN THE PICTURE! ($800) Hayes visits this North American battlefield also known as Sharpsburg. He was wounded and missed the action when his regiment fought there in 1862.

THE MOVIES ($400) Leaving the west coast, we retrace the movie journey of this 1981 adventure film character on his way to Nepal

ELEMENTAL U.S. PLACES ($1200) 5,675 feet high, this city is home to the Coors Brewing Company

($2000) The Texas city named this “Springs” uses the “ph” in the middle, not the “f”

PEOPLE IN POEMS ($1600) In St. Martinville, Louisiana, not in a forest primeval, is a statue of this Acadian heroine separated from her beloved

HOW MANY? ($400) Number of years
in a sesquicentennial

($1200) Cox included, number of crew on the largest boat in the sport of rowing (count ’em)

($1600) People in the Julliard, a famed group of string players, when it was formed in 1946

The players got all the clues in IT’S A “DATE” (the word has to have “date” in it), except the two marked with an asterisk (*):

($200) To calm someone by giving him a drug
*($400) To coerce someone into an action by threats
($600) To flood an area or to overwhelm someone with information
($800) The authority of an elected official to do the things she promised to do before an election
*($1000) Shall I do this? Make something easier to understand

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