Show Details: December 1998
1998-12-05
- First: Sue Ellicott 14 (Start: 4 / Correct: 5)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts 12 (Start: 2 / Correct: 5)
- Third: Charlie Pierce 9 (Start: 3 / Correct: 3)
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about appropriate musical cues for news stories; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Listener Bluff about how a news organization got fooled; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
For the Listener Bluff segment, the listener contestant chose Charlie Pierce's story, which was correct. The story was related to the Not My Job questions that they had asked Kevin Klose, which the film name translations and story were a hoax.
Including the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question that Peter Sagal asked Charlie when the gong sound was played, Charlie was asked nine questions. The current standard for Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank is that each panelist is asked eight questions.
1998-12-12
- First Tied: Roxanne Roberts 15 (Start: 3 / Correct: 6)
- First Tied: Roy Blount, Jr. 15 (Start: 3 / Correct: 6)
- Third: Adam Felber 10 (Start: 2 / Correct: 4)
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about new ways to celebrate Hanukkah; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about how a recent film has inspired prople to emulate the main characters; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
This is the first show in which the NPR.org site references the listener bluff segment as "Bluff the Listener".
1998-12-19
- First: Charlie Pierce 12 (Start: 2 / Correct: 5)
- Second Tied: Roxanne Roberts 11 (Start: 3 / Correct: 4)
- Second Tied: Adam Felber 11 (Start: 5 / Correct: 3)
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a new reality television show; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
During Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank, before Peter Sagal asked Carl Kasell how many questions Adam Felber needed to win, Adam asked to be called "Carol", in reference to one of the questions Roxanne Roberts had. Peter then asked Carl "Alright, Carl. How many does Carol need to win?". Adam would then be called "Carol" up until the end of the segment.
1998-12-26
- First: Roxanne Roberts 13 (Start: 5 / Correct: 4)
- Second: Charlie Pierce 12 (Start: 4 / Correct: 4)
- Third: Adam Felber 6 (Start: 2 / Correct: 2)
Year in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about odd sounds heard on NPR this year; Listener Limerick Challenge; Year in Review; Bluff the Listener about one city's attempts to make life more pleasant for its residents; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank
With the show being a special 1998 Year in Review show, both Who's Carl This Time? segments contained four questions instead of the usual three. The listener contestants only needed to answer two correct to win.
The show did not close out with Predicting Next Week's Headlines, only the show's credits reading.