Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Stats Page

Show Details: June 1998

1998-06-06

NPR DB ID: 317
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Roxanne Roberts
Correct: Charlie Pierce
#2
Chosen: Roxanne Roberts
Correct: Adam Felber
Description
Lightning True or False; Who is Carl This Time?; We'll Wait, You Tell Us; Suck Up to Minnesota; Week in Review; We'll Wait, You Tell Us #2; Not My Job about literature and the fine arts; Who is Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
Notes

For the first We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the listener contestant chose Roxanne Roberts' answer, but Charlie Pierce's answer was correct.

For the second We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the listener contestant chose Roxanne's answer, but Adam Felber's answer was correct.

This is the first show to feature the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment with the rules that still are used. Roxanne had used a bonus phrase that was brought up later in the show for one of her answers and got a bonus point.

1998-06-13

NPR DB ID: 318
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Adam Felber
Correct: Charlie Pierce
#2
Chosen: Roxanne Roberts
Correct: Roxanne Roberts
Description
Lightning True or False; Who's Carl This Time?; We'll Wait, You Tell Us; Week in Review; We'll Wait, You Tell Us #2; Not My Job about the World Cup; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
Notes

Unlike previous games where the segment was nearly consistently stated as "Who is Carl This Time?" was called "Who's Carl This Time?" for both instances.

For the first We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the listener contestant chose Adam Felber's answer, but Charlie Pierce's answer was correct.

For the second We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the listener contestant chose Roxanne Roberts' answer, which was correct.

Roxanne was the first panelist to answer zero questions correct in Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank.

1998-06-20

NPR DB ID: 319
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Charlie Pierce
Correct: Margo Kaufman
#2
Chosen: Margo Kaufman
Correct: Charlie Pierce
Description
Lightning True or False; Bonus Phrase: Rambo in Pinstripes; Who is Carl This Time?; We'll Wait, You Tell Us; The Rise and Fall of Chainsaw Al Dunlap; Week in Review; We'll Wait, You Tell Us #2; Not My Job about weird things at baseball stadiums; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
Notes

For the first We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the listener contestant chose Charlie Pierce's answer, but Margo Kaufman's answer was correct.

The Rise and Fall of Chainsaw Al Dumlap was an adaptation of Al Dunlap's autobiography, "Mean Business," by Peter Sagal and Carl Kasell.

For the second We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the listener contestant chose Margo's answer, but Charlie's answer was correct.

Charlie Pierce had used the bonus phrase as an answer for the last Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question and got an extra point.

1998-06-27

NPR DB ID: 320
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Roxanne Roberts
Correct: Charlie Pierce
#2
Chosen: Charlie Pierce
Correct: Margo Kaufman
Description
Lightning True or False; Who's Carl This Time?; We'll Wait, You Tell Us; Week in Review; We'll Wait, You Tell Us #2; Not My Job about news from outside the midwest; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
Notes

For the first We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the listener contestant chose Roxanne Roberts' answer, but Charlie Pierce's answer was correct.

For the second We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the listener contestant chose Charlie's answer, but Margo Kaufman's answer was correct.

Answering zero correct questions in Not My Job is now called a "Flintoff" rather than a "Stamberg".