Show Details
1999-03-27
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Claudia Perry Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 5 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 2)
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Week in Review; Not My Job about unlikely pop hits; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a new revelation about the tobacco industry; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: who will host next year's Oscars?
Joe Palca had been the first guest to answer one question correct. After that, a guest scoring one point would be referred to as scoring "a Palca". It was mentioned that a guest scoring only one point would, going forward, be referred to as scoring "an Inskeep" instead.
Towards the end of the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment, Roy Blount, Jr. surmised that no man had won two games in a row before. Peter Sagal won five games in a row from 1998-02-28 through 1998-03-28 (no final scores were tabulated and announced for the 1998-04-04 show) and Adam Felber won two games in a row, 1998-09-19 and 1998-09-26.