Here are 7 triple stumpers from the 7-12-2019 Jeopardy! match.

3-LETTER READING ($400) The first paragraph of “Great Expectations” says, “So, I called myself” this

($1000) “The Kitchen God’s Wife” author

ACRONYMS & ABBREVS. ($1600) Seen on pay stubs, FICA is short for these 2 words “Contributions Act”

SECOND LETTER “Y” ($2000) This jellylike substance that fills the cells of an organism contains mitochondria & ribosomes

ALIEN INVASION! ($1200) This variety of fruit fly invaded California in the 1980s & led to U.S. quarantine laws

TAKE ME TO YOUR LIEDER ($1200) The French followed the Germans’ lied with a form called melodie like Henri Duparc’s this French word for song “Triste”

($1600) Discovered in 2017, “Lied vom weissen Käse”, or “Song of the White Cheese”, is by this composer who often worked with Bertolt Brecht

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

*($200) A helmsman of the Enterprise has his U’s turned into O’s & becomes this other space pilot
($400) The “Poker Face” lady swaps her A’s for I’s & becomes this Oscar-winning movie
($600) Netanyahu’s nickname trades its I’s for A’s to become this rum cake
*($800) Hawaii’s state bird swaps its vowels for A’s & turns into this relative
($1000) An affectionate name for your mother switches its vowels & becomes this nickname of Mariah Carey

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