Show Details
1999-06-05
- First: Margo Kaufman 15 (Start: 3 / Correct: 6)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts 12 (Start: 2 / Correct: 5)
- Third: Charlie Pierce 10 (Start: 4 / Correct: 3)
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about words from the 1999 National Spelling Bee; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about a political figure who's fallen from grace and is back in the public eye; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
The show features the first edition of Who's Carl Race for the White House 2000. The show requested listeners to send in news limericks for the next several shows due to the show's limericist being out.
Instead of the Not My Job questions being multiple choice, Ira Glass had to correctly spell words from the 1999 National Spelling Bee. Charlie Pierce was able to correct spell the first and third words, Margo Kaufman was able to correct spell the second word, while Roxanne Roberts did not write down the correct spelling for the third word. The three words were: palimpsest, nociceptor, and logorrhea.