Show Details: January 1999
1999-01-02
- Steve Inskeep Score: 1
- Madeleine Brand Score: 3
- Melissa Block Score: 1
- Cheryl Corley Score: 1
- Ketzel Levine Score: 0
- Kevin Kling Score: 0
- Neal Conan Score: 2
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
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Rank:
First Tied:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 6
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Rank:
First Tied:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 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
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Rank:
First:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 9.5
Lightning Start: 3.5 Correct: 3
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Rank:
Second:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 8.5
Lightning Start: 2.5 Correct: 3
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Rank:
Third:
Adam Felber
Total: 8
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 3
- Frank Tavares Score: 2
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
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Rank:
First:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Andrea Michaels
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
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Rank:
Third:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 6
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 2
- Ann Taylor Score: 1
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
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Rank:
First:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 5 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
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Rank:
Third:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 8
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 3
- Martin Goldsmith Score: 1
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