Show Details: October 1998
1998-10-03
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second: Adam Felber Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 4 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 1)
Panel Questions (Who's Carl This Time?, Week in Review); Historical Reenactment Theatre; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about Major League Baseball playoffs; Listener Bluff; Week in Review; Listener Bluff #2; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
The first segment with panel questions was labeled as "Who's Carl This Time?" on the NPR show page, but consisted of a mix of questions.
The Not My Job questions did not follow the usual three multiple choice questions. Instead, Ketzel Levine was asked a true or false question, a fill-in-the-blank, and multiple choice question.
For the first Listener Bluff, the listener contestant chose Roxanne Roberts' answer, but Adam Felber's was correct.
For the second Listener Bluff, the listener contestant chose Roxanne's answer, which was correct.
1998-10-10
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 7.5 (Starting Score: 1.5 / Correct Answers: 3)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 7 (Starting Score: 5 / Correct Answers: 1)
- Third: Margo Kaufman Total Score: 6.5 (Starting Score: 2.5 / Correct Answers: 2)
Who's Carl This Time?; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Not My Job about deciphering news limericks; Listener Bluff; Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time? #3; Listener Bluff #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
The first Who's Carl This Time? segment was played by the panelists. The second and third Who's Carl This Time? were played by listener contestants.
For the first Listener Bluff, the listener contestant chose Roxanne Roberts' answer, which was correct.
For the second Listener Bluff, the listener contestant chose Roxanne's answer, but Margo Kaufman's was correct.
Roy Blount, Jr. and Margo started the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment with 1.5 and 2.5 points respectively. Their scores have been rounded up to the nearest whole numbers for the non-decimal score columns.
1998-10-17
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 12.5 (Starting Score: 4.5 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second: Adam Felber Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 3)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 6.5 (Starting Score: 2.5 / Correct Answers: 2)
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Week in Review; Historical Reenactment Theatre; Who's Carl This Time?; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Listener Bluff; Mystery Newsmaker; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
The Listener Limerick Challenge segment made its debut on this show.
For the Listener Bluff segment, the listener contestant chose Roxanne Roberts' answer, but Adam Felber's answer was correct.
The Mystery Newsmaker segment marks the return of the original Why Should We Know Who You Are? segment.
Roy Blount, Jr. and Roxanne started the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment with 2.5 and 4.5 points respectively. Their scores have been rounded up to the nearest whole numbers for the non-decimal score columns.
1998-10-24
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 3)
- Third: Nell Benjamin Total Score: 6 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 2)
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Historical Reenactment Theatre; Not My Job about the Sherman Anti-Trust Act; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Listener Bluff; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
Charlie Pierce sung a portion of Elton John's "Rocket Man" as a hint for the second question of the first Who's Carl This Time?.
For the Listener Bluff segment, the listener contestant chose Roxanne Roberts' answer, but Nell Benjamin's answer was correct.
Charlie stated that Roxanne's win of 18 points by answering seven questions correct was the all-time Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank record. On the 1998-08-15 show, Roxanne had won with 20 points (started with 8 points and answered six correct).
1998-10-31
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 12.5 (Starting Score: 4.5 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 7 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 3)
- Third: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 3.5 (Starting Score: 1.5 / Correct Answers: 1)
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Week in Review; Not My Job about the weird and the supernatural; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Listener Bluff; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
Roy Blount, Jr. didn't know the answer for the first question of the Week in Review segment. Instead, both Charlie Pierce and Roxanne Roberts said the answer at the same time for half credit each.
For the Listener Bluff segment, the listener contestant chose Roxanne's answer, but Charlie's answer was correct.
Roxanne and Charlie started the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment with 4.5 and 1.5 points respectively. Their scores have been rounded up to the nearest whole numbers for the non-decimal score columns.
An audio clip of an evil laugh with screaming people replaced the sound of a gong to note the end of the one minute for each of the panelists' time for Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank.
When Peter Sagal asked Carl Kasell how many questions Roxanne needed to win, Carl said three. Roxanne had 4.5 points while Roy had a total of 7 points. Thus, Roxanne would only need to answer two questions correct for a total of 8.5 points to win.