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COME ON JEOPARDY.....HOOK THIS KID UP! - “He was a little stunned by it,” Hurley’s mom told the Westport News. “He felt embarrassed. It was hard to watch.” A Connecticut eighth-grader’s typo cost him a hefty wager in the final round of "Jeopardy!" The 12-year-old, Thomas Hurley, was in second place during a Kids’ Week episode that aired Wednesday when the gameshow’s longtime host, Alex Trebek, revealed the Final Jeopardy topic: “The Civil War.” The Newtown Middle School student took the entire 30 seconds allowed to scrawl his response to the clue that Trebek read, “Abraham Lincoln called this document, which took effect in 1863, ‘A fit and necessary war measure.’”
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 16:07:41 +0000

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