Here are 3 triple stumpers from the 12-11-2018 Jeopardy! match.

AT THE SALAD BAR ($1000) Tuna pasta salad containing this aromatic herb that gives Bearnaise sauce its distinctive flavor

POSTHUMOUS BOOKS ($1600) This African-American author’s long-awaited second novel “Juneteenth” appeared in 1999

DE-CAP-ITATE ‘EM! ($2000) Take the “cap” off a shipboard winch & get this male first name

The players got these clues in “Word Origins,” except those marked with an asterisk (*)

($200) The name of this type of heavenly body comes from the Greek for “wanderer” because all 8 wander during the year against the background of fixed stars
*($400) This word for a type of contest began in mock battles as groups rotated in unison to attack the opposition
*($600) This term for a fool or jokester is from the Italian for “to puff”
($800) With its characters made up of wedges, this ancient writing systems means “wedge-shaped”
*($1000) This word, from French words for “carry” & “cloak”, is itself a compound rather than one of the things it describes

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