Show Details
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
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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.