Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Stats Page

Show Details: January 1999

1999-01-02

Best Of NPR DB ID: 1336
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Description
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring some Not My Job guests from the past year
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The NPR.org site does not have a page for this show.

1999-01-09

NPR DB ID: 345
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Panelists
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Roxanne Roberts
Correct: Charlie Pierce
Description
Week in Review; 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
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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

NPR DB ID: 346
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Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Roy Blount, Jr.
Correct: Adam Felber
Description
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
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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

NPR DB ID: 347
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Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Andrea Michaels
Correct: Charlie Pierce
Description
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

NPR DB ID: 348
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Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Roy Blount, Jr.
Correct: Roy Blount, Jr.
Description
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