Show Details: October 1999
1999-10-02
- First Tied: Adam Felber 12 (Start: 2 / Correct: 5)
- First Tied: Roy Blount, Jr. 12 (Start: 4 / Correct: 4)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts 9 (Start: 3 / Correct: 3)
Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about entertainment ideas of yesterday that are making a comeback; Panel Questions; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about a plea for mercy denied; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what Dan Quayle's next job will be?
All three questions for the first Who's Carl This Time? segment were multiple choice questions where each panelist provided a possible answer, but only one had the correct answer. For the first question, the listener contestant chose Roxanne Roberts, who had the correct answer. For the second question, the listener chose Roxanne, but Roy Blount, Jr. had the correct answer. For the third question, the listener chose Adam Felber, who had the correct answer.
1999-10-09
- First: Charlie Pierce 11 (Start: 3 / Correct: 4)
- Second: Adam Felber 9 (Start: 3 / Correct: 3)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts 7 (Start: 3 / Correct: 2)
Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about identifying new discoveries in science; Panel Questions; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about Harvey Ball and why people are talking about him; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: which iconic song from the 1960s Al Gore will reference next?
All three questions for the first Who's Carl This Time? segment were multiple choice questions where each panelist provided a possible answer, but only one had the correct answer. For the first question, the listener contestant chose Roxanne Roberts, but Sue Ellicott had the correct answer. For the second question, the listener chose Sue, but Roxanne had the correct answer. For the third question, the listener chose Roxanne, who had the correct answer.
The audio recording for the show that I received had a cut in the audio starting from Peter Sagal asking Adam Felber a question for the second Panel Question segment. The audio came back just before the start of the second Who's Carl This Time? segment.
At the start of Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank, Carl Kasell said, "For the first time that I could remember, we have a three-way tie for first place." The first time there was a three-way tie at the start of Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank was on the 1998-11-21 show.
1999-10-16
- First: Adam Felber 17 (Start: 5 / Correct: 6)
- Second: Sue Ellicott 14 (Start: 6 / Correct: 4)
- Third: Charlie Pierce 7 (Start: 3 / Correct: 2)
Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about diet crazes of the past; Panel Questions; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about a piece of sports memorabilia being auctioned off; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what celebrity memorabilia will next go on the auction block?
All three questions for the first Who's Carl This Time? segment were multiple choice questions where each panelist provided a possible answer, but only one had the correct answer. For the first question, the listener contestant chose Adam Felber, but Sue Ellicott had the correct answer. For the second question, the listener chose Charlie Pierce, who had the correct answer. For the third question, the listener chose Adam, who had the correct answer.
When Peter Sagal asked how Mara Liasson did on her Not My Job questions, Carl said that Mara scored a "Snigdha". Snigdha Prakash answered two questions correct when she was the Not My Job guest on the 1999-09-11 show.
1999-10-23
- First: Sue Ellicott 13 (Start: 3 / Correct: 5)
- Second: Adam Felber 9 (Start: 3 / Correct: 3)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts 8 (Start: 4 / Correct: 2)
Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about urban legends; Panel Questions; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about a new theme park; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what's the next step in the Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia plan for world domination?
All three questions for the first Who's Carl This Time? segment were multiple choice questions where each panelist provided a possible answer, but only one had the correct answer. For the first question, the listener contestant chose Roxanne Roberts, who had the correct answer. For the second question, the listener chose Sue Ellicott, who had the correct answer. For the third question, the listener chose Roxanne, but Adam Felber had the correct answer.
1999-10-30
- First: Charlie Pierce 13 (Start: 5 / Correct: 4)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts 12 (Start: 2 / Correct: 5)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. 11 (Start: 3 / Correct: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about unusual words in the news; Panel Questions; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about something they didn't teach in home economics; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what Britain's ousted hereditary Lords will do next?
All three questions for the first Who's Carl This Time? segment were multiple choice questions where each panelist provided a possible answer, but only one had the correct answer. For the first question, the listener contestant chose Charlie Pierce, who had the correct answer. For the second question, the listener chose Roxanne Roberts, who had the correct answer. For the third question, the listener chose Roxanne, but Roy Blount, Jr. had the correct answer.