Here are 3 triple stumpers from the 5-25-2018 Jeopardy! match.

EPIC FAIL ($1200) In the Mayan epic “Popol Vuh”, the gods’ first try at creation fails when the creatures lack this ability

SLEEP ($1200) This 4-letter pinniped can sleep underwater but wakes to surface & breathe

($1600) Hormones called leptins are off-kilter when you don’t get enough sleep, increasing this, from the Latin for “desire”

The players got these 4 clues in GENIUSES ARE BORN:

($200) On Dec. 27, 1822, this Frenchman was born to show the world that microorganisms cause fermentation

($400) He was conducted into the world January 27, 1756, the same year his father published a manual on playing the violin

($600) Later to take the pen name Richard Saunders, he was born to a poor family in Boston January 17, 1706

($1000) It’s certain he was born Dec. 5, 1901, in Wurzburg, Germany, 26 years before publishing his famous principle.

And they got these 5 in EARLY 19TH CENTURY TIMELINE:

($400) July 13, 1836: The U.S. grants its first numbered one of these for a new type of locomotive wheel

($800) August 6, 1806: long declining, the empire falls completely

($1200) January 1, 1801: The Act of Union unites Britain & this country

($1600) 1822: Jean-Francois Champollion deciphers hieroglyphics using this stone

($2000) July 2, 1839: Erstwhile slaves take over this Spanish schooner

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