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** The 1993 College Tournament winner Phoebe Juel recounts how the coordinators had to search the studio for more boxes because the ones which were on hand were too short for her.
* [[Throw It In]]: More than once, Alex has misread a clue and insisted that his slip-up be left in. One example is when he misread "sewers" (i.e., people who sew) as "sewers" (i.e., sanitary sewer).
** November 19, 1986: In Double Jeopardy!, a contestant is credited with a wrong amount for a clue and this lasts until he finds a Daily Double near the end of the round. He wagers everything but forgets to phrase his response in the form of a question, bringing him down to zero. He doesn't ring in on the final two clues and is disqualified from Final Jeopardy!, making the crew's mistake inadmissible.
** Late 1990s: Johnny Gilbert mistakenly said "Glenn Trebek". While this may seem a totally arbitrary name-switch, Glenn was the name of one of the contestant coordinators, who at the time hosted the "practice" games that contestants-to-be played.▼
** 1997: After Johnny finished reading the copy for the car that the runner-up would receive, Alex accidentally called him "Johnner", causing Johnny to laugh. Alex then lampshaded his slip-up by intentionally misreading the Final Jeopardy! category of Famous Pairs as "Famous Pores".
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* [[What Could Have Been]]: The contestant coordinator hosts "rehearsal games", recorded under actual taping conditions and designed to let the contestants "warm up" on clues taken from past episodes. For the first Trebek season (1984-85), the role was filled by former ''[[Starcade]]'' host [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkYzUosREpk Mark Richards] and the clues were primarily from the 1983 pilot; coincidentally, Richards got the job for ''Starcade'' after Trebek turned it down following a trio of pilots...which means that in another universe Richards is a legend, Trebek is a semi-remembered host whose career began fizzling out after ''High Rollers'', and [[Treasure Hunt US|Geoff]] [[Jackpot|Edwards]] never played a single video game.
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