Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Stats Page
Show Details: September 1998
1998-09-05
- First: Margo Kaufman 15.5 (7.5 / 4)
- Second: Charlie Pierce 13.5 (5.5 / 4)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts 7 (3 / 2)
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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 (6 / 4)
- Second: Adam Felber 7 (5 / 1)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. 5 (3 / 1)
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.