Here are 8 triple stumpers from the 2-8-2019 Jeopardy! match.

BY GEORGE ($400) George Eliot: “The __ on the Floss”

CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS ($1000) The skyline of this German city is dominated by the towers of its Gothic cathedral

DROP IT ($600) From a departure to get this departed one

BYE AGAIN, GEORGE! ($2000) This Illinois senator, who read the address in 1994, noted she was the first American of African descent to be so honored

ISLANDS ($1600) Tiberius ran the Roman Empire from a hilltop villa on this island & made the Grotta Azzurra his personal pool

ORGANIZATIONS ($1200) “America’s largest Veterans service organization”, it has a magazine exploring travel & health as well as military matters

($2000) Started in 2010, an org. named for her helps people who have contributed to medical research & gotten no reward from it

STARGAZERS ($400) In the 1920s Harlow Shapley concluded this was not at the center of the Milky Way galaxy but 30,000 light years from there

The players got all the clues in FAUX AMIS, except the ones marked with an asterisk (*):

($400) Someone who says “bonne journée” isn’t wishing you a good journey but a good this
($800) In French c-o-i-n isn’t money; coin means corner & coin-coin is what these birds say
($1200) La confection isn’t candy, it’s this trade aka the schmatta business
($1600) “Je t’ai blessé” has nothing to do with blessing; it means I did this to you
($2000) Un librairie is a bookstore; library is this “B” word in French

ANSWERS: show

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