Show Details: September 1998
1998-09-05
- First: Margo Kaufman 15.5 (Start: 7.5 / Correct: 4)
- Second: Charlie Pierce 13.5 (Start: 5.5 / Correct: 4)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts 7 (Start: 3 / Correct: 2)
Lightning True or False; Who's Carl This Time?; We'll Wait, You Tell Us; Extort New York City; Week in Review; We'll Wait, You Tell Us #2; Not My Job about dismal financial terms; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
The NPR.org site does not have a page for this show, even on their legacy website.
For the first We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the listener contestant chose Charlie Pierce's answer, but Margo Kaufman's answer was correct.
For the second We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the listener contestant chose Margo's answer; but Charlie's was correct.
This is the first time that panelists had earned half-points since the show closed out with Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank. Since only the panelist score column only supports non-integer scores, the panelist starting scores were rounded up: from 7.5 to 8 for Margo and from 5.5 to 6 for Charlie.
1998-09-12
- First: Roxanne Roberts 14 (Start: 6 / Correct: 4)
- Second: Adam Felber 7 (Start: 5 / Correct: 1)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. 5 (Start: 3 / Correct: 1)
Lightning True or False; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about jargon; We'll Wait, You Tell Us; Week in Review; We'll Wait, You Tell Us #2; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
For the first We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the listener contestant chose Roxanne Roberts' answer, but Adam Felber's answer was correct.
For the second We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the listener contestant chose Adam's answer, but Roxanne's answer was correct.
1998-09-19
- First: Adam Felber 17 (Start: 7 / Correct: 5)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts 15 (Start: 5 / Correct: 5)
- Third: Charlie Pierce 9 (Start: 1 / Correct: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Questions; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Not My Job about the Fall arts season; We'll Wait, You Tell Us; Week in Review; We'll Wait, You Tell Us #2; Who's Carl This Time? #3; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
The first Who's Carl This Time? was a special version in which the panelists got to play instead of a listener contestant. The second and third Who's Carl This Time? segments were played by listener contestants.
Ted Clark initially answered "A" for his third Not My Job question, but Peter Sagal gave Ted a chance to choose another answer. Ted then chose "B", which was the correct answer.
For the first We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the listener contestant chose Adam Felber's answer, but Roxanne Roberts' answer was correct.
For the second We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the listener contestant chose Adam's answer, but Charlie Pierce's answer was correct.
1998-09-26
- First: Adam Felber 12 (Start: 4 / Correct: 4)
- Second Tied: Roxanne Roberts 6 (Start: 2 / Correct: 2)
- Second Tied: Charlie Pierce 6 (Start: 2 / Correct: 2)
Who's Carl This Time?; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Not My Job about George and Ira Gershwin; Listener Bluff; Week in Review; Listener Bluff #2; Who's Carl This Time? #3; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
The first Who's Carl This Time? was a special version in which the panelists got to play instead of a listener contestant. The second and third Who's Carl This Time? segments were played by listener contestants.
This is the first time that the Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! NPR site references the listener bluff segment as "Listener Bluff" instead of "We'll Wait, You Tell Us".
For the first Listener Bluff, the listener contestant chose Roxanne Roberts' answer, which was correct.
For the second Listener Bluff, the listener contestant chose Charlie Pierce's answer, which was correct.
With some assistance from Peter Sagal, the listener contestant for the third Who's Carl This Time? segment won, meaning that all of the listener contestants and the Not My Job guest won.
As a joke, the gong sounded after Roxanne answered the first Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round; though, the round would continue. This was due to both Adam and Charlie only having 6 points each. If the round had ended with Roxanne only answering one question correct, all three panelists would have finished the game in a three-way tie with 6 points each.