Show Details: January 1999
1999-01-02
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring some Not My Job guests from the past year
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1999-01-09
- First Tied: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 6)
- First Tied: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about Elvis Presley; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a Cold War diplomatic near-faux pas; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
For the Not My Job segment, the three questions were split out so that Laura Lorson, Sara Sorasohn and Rob Robinson would be asked a question each. Both Laura and Rob answered their questions correct, but Sara did not.
Charlie Pierce was asked nine questions during the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment.
1999-01-16
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 9.5 (Starting Score: 3.5 / Correct Answers: 3)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 8.5 (Starting Score: 2.5 / Correct Answers: 3)
- Third: Adam Felber Total Score: 8 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 3)
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about new business ventures; Week in Review; Listener Limerick Challenge; Bluff the Listener about a company that is taking customer relations to a startling new level; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
Roxanne Roberts and Roy Blount, Jr. started the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment with 3.5 and 2.5 points, respectively. Both answered three questions correct for a total of 9.5 and 8.5 points, respectively. Both scores have been rounded up for the integer score columns.
1999-01-23
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second: Andrea Michaels Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 3)
- Third: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 6 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 2)
Week in Review; You Are There: The Trial of the President; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about rhetorical profiles; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a new use for artificial intelligence; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
1999-01-30
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 5 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 3)
- Third: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 8 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 3)
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Bluff the Listener about an obsolete law being enforced; Not My Job about pre-Super Bowl news; Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines