University of Idaho Reference Librarian Rochelle Smith placed second on Monday’s Jeopardy! quiz show.
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Smith received $2,000 as a second-place prize.
Smith answered the first question of the night, while picking and winning two of the Daily Double questions, in which a contestant has the sole opportunity to answer and wager any monetary amount they hold.
Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek introduced Smith by leading with a story of a bed and breakfast stay in Scotland for a wedding in which she was a stranger’s Maid of Honor.
Smith said she met two Californians who were getting married and needed two witnesses at the courthouse. She volunteered and called a man she met at a bar the night prior, providing the second witness for the couple’s marriage.
She held second place with $13,800 before Double Jeopardy — the final question of the competition. In Double Jeopardy, contestants were asked which artist had No. 1 albums in five consecutive decades from the 1960s to 2000s. Smith and another competitor incorrectly answered “Diana Ross” while the night’s winner answered correctly with “Barbra Streisand.”