Jim Scott game 5. Crackle.com listed date as October 10, 1990.
Contestants
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David Hall, a musician from Melrose, Massachusetts
Mark Thompson, a Realtor from Lexington, Massachusetts
Jim Scott, a college student from Charlottesville, Virginia (whose 4-day cash winnings total $44,700)
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Jeopardy! Round responses
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(Mark: What is babble?)
(David: What is mimic?)
parrot
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(David: What is the Round Table?)
Camelot
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(Mark: What is shalom?)
salaam
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(Jim: What is Central?)
Mountain
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[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Shirley MacLaine
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(Alex: And with a minute to go in the round, you have just hit the Daily Double.)
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(Jim: What is Germany?)
(Alex: Oh, no. You probably know the cheese better as Swiss cheese.)
Switzerland
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resilience (or elasticity)
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(Jim: Who is Lancelot?)
Percival (or Galahad or Bors)
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Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 13):
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Mark |
David |
| $0 |
$1,000 |
$900 |
Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:
| Jim |
Mark |
David |
| $1,100 |
$1,900 |
$1,700 |
Double Jeopardy! Round responses
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(Jim: Who is Washington?)
Washington Irving
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[Note: Alex reads "O." as "Omar".]
the Panama Canal
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the American Bar Association
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Holland) or the Netherlands)
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(Jim: What is the Mekong?)
(the) Saigon (River)
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(Jim: What is K-L-É with an accent aigu-E?)
[Jim was originally credited with a correct response. Just before Final Jeopardy!, this ruling was reversed, as the judges were unable to find evidence of the accent mark in the spelling of Klee's name.]
Klee
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(David: Who is Puccini?)
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[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Giuseppe Verdi
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(Mark: What is the Congo?)
(Alex: No, sorry, you picked the wrong one. One of the richest countries would be Nigeria; one of the poorest, Niger.)
the Niger River
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Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:
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| $4,100 |
$1,800 |
$2,300 |
[wagering suggestions for these scores]
Final Jeopardy! Round responses
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| Mark | What is St. Louis? | | $1,800 | | David | What is St Louis? | | $2,300 | | Jim | What is St Louis? | | $500 |
St. Louis |
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Final scores:
| Jim |
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David |
| $4,600 |
$3,600 |
$4,600 |
Game dynamics:
| Jim |
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David |
| $6,900 |
$5,300 |
$2,300 |
Game tape date: 1990-08-20
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