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Sorry. Watson is all about great internal architecture (plumbing) that lets it work in speeds approaching real-time on truly staggering data sets. The algorithms its running to compete at Jeopardy are so specialized and tweaked for the game it plays that Watson is useless outside that arena.
Otherwise, we could just keep feeding it data and asking questions like you proposed. Not gonna happen.
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IBM spent millions of dollars over four years and dedicated some of their top computer scientists to this project. They didn't make that kind of investment just for the PR of appearing on a prime time game show. The project lead specifically cited the computer from Star Trek as his inspiration; he wants to build a computer to which a human can pose a question in natural language, have the computer quickly search its massive databases, and then return the answer in natural language. Helping doctors diagnose conditions by parsing through all the available literature was an example he used as a practical application of this technology.