Show Details: January 1998
1998-01-03
- First: Peter Sagal 24
- Second: Roxanne Roberts 22
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. 16
Week in Review; Bonus Phrase: Velvet Divorce; We'll Wait, You Tell Us about the top blunders of 1997; We'll Wait, You Tell Us #2 about odd new state laws for 1998; Lightning True or False; Gossip, Rumor & Innuendo; Why Should We Know Who You Are?; Wait Wait, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me (Double Point Bonus Round); Four Degrees of Separation; Wait Wait I'm Pontificating; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
For We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the first listener contestant chose Roy Blount, Jr.'s answer, which was the correct one. The second listener contestant chose Peter Sagal's answer, but Roxanne Roberts had the correct answer.
1998-01-10
- First: Roxanne Roberts 21
- Second: Margo Kaufman 18.5
- Third: Peter Sagal 15
Week in Review; Bonus Phrase: A retirement village of stars; We'll Wait, You Tell Us about the German Army Crisis of 1998; We'll Wait, You Tell Us #2 about country music Grammy nominations; Lightning True or False; Gossip, Rumor & Innuendo; Why Should We Know Who You Are?; Wait Wait, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me (Double Point Bonus Round); Radio Photographs; Wait Wait I'm Pontificating; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
For We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the first listener contestant chose Margo Kaufman's answer, but Peter Sagal had the correct answer. The second listener contestant chose Margo Kaufman's answer, but Roxanne Roberts had the correct answer.
Margo had a total of 18.5 points. Her score has been rounded up to 19 as the Wait Wait Stats Database currently has the scores defined as integers.
1998-01-17
- First: Roxanne Roberts 25
- Second: Amy Dickinson 19
- Third: Charlie Pierce 11
Week in Review; Bonus Phrase: Nerd Stigma; We'll Wait, You Tell Us about startling revelations in the world of literature; We'll Wait, You Tell Us #2 about a legal controversy in Minneola, New York; We'll Wait, You Tell Us #3 about the intersection of music and business; We'll Wait, You Tell Us #4 about an Olympic crisis; Gossip, Rumor & Innuendo; Why Should We Know Who You Are?; Wait Wait, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me (Double Point Bonus Round); Wait Wait I'm Pontificating; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
For We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the first three listener contestants all chose Roxanne Roberts' answer, while the fourth listener contestant chose Amy Dickinson's answer. Roxanne had the correct answer for the first and third stories, Charlie Pierce had the correct answer for the second, and Amy had the correct answer for the fourth.
1998-01-24
- First: Peter Sagal 23
- Second: Margo Kaufman 21
- Third: Roxanne Roberts 18
Week in Review; Bonus Phrase: Pharmaceuticals in their milk; We'll Wait, You Tell Us about a strange appeals court ruling in New York; We'll Wait, You Tell Us #2 about a controversial board game in Canada; Lightning True or False; Gossip, Rumor & Innuendo; Why Should We Know Who You Are?; Double Points Bonus Round; News Etymology: Fast Track; Wait Wait I'm Pontificating; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
The first listener contestant for We'll Wait, You Tell Us had written in suggesting that listeners who win could have Carl Kasell call people at 3 AM in the morning to tell them the news or Tom and Ray of Car Talk could do brake jobs. The first listener contestant for the same segment chose Roxanne Roberts' answer, but Margo Kaufman had the correct answer. The second listener contestant chose Margo's answer, but Roxanne had the correct answer.
The listener contestant for the News Etymology segment chose Roxanne's answer, but Peter Sagal had the correct answer.
Peter had a total of 22.5 points. His score has been rounded up to 23 as the Wait Wait Stats Database currently has the scores defined as integers.
1998-01-31
- First: Margo Kaufman 24.5
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. 22
- Third: Peter Sagal 20.5
Week in Review; Bonus Phrase: Political Kaopectate; We'll Wait, You Tell Us about England apologizing to Italy; We'll Wait, You Tell Us #2 about an American celebrity finding a home in Cuba; Lightning True or False; Gossip, Rumor & Innuendo; Why Should We Know Who You Are?; Double Point Bonus Round; News Etymology: Suborn; Wait Wait I'm Pontificating; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
For We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the first listener contestant chose Roy Blount, Jr.'s answer, but Margo Kaufman had the correct answer. The second listener contestant chose Roy's answer, who had the correct answer.
For News Etomology, the listener contestant chose Margo's answer, but Roy had the correct answer.
Peter Sagal had a total of 20.5 points and Margo had a total of 24.5 points. Peter's score has been rounded up to 21 and Margo's rounded up to 25 as the Wait Wait Stats Database currently has the scores defined as integers.