Show Details: November 1999
1999-11-06
- First: Roxanne Roberts 13 (Start: 3 / Correct: 5)
- Second: Charlie Pierce 12 (Start: 2 / Correct: 5)
- Third: Adam Felber 10 (Start: 2 / Correct: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about insects and other creepy crawlers; Panel Questions; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about an employee who got into trouble for being too zealous with their job; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what controversial consultant Al Gore will hire 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 Adam Felber, but Charlie Pierce 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 Adam, who had the correct answer.
1999-11-13
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. 14 (Start: 4 / Correct: 5)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts 13 (Start: 3 / Correct: 5)
- Third: Claudia Perry 7 (Start: 3 / Correct: 2)
Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about international eating; Panel Questions; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about coffee creamer in the news; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: how will Judge Jackson punish Microsoft?
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 both the second and third questions, the listener chose Roxanne Roberts, but Claudia Perry had the correct answer.
The three Not My Job guests were from NPR Audience Services. The first Not My Job question was asked to Rachel Basofin, the second question was asked to Erica Reid, and the third question was asked to Hershal Shevade.
1999-11-20
- First: Sue Ellicott 13 (Start: 3 / Correct: 5)
- Second Tied: Roy Blount, Jr. 12 (Start: 4 / Correct: 4)
- Second Tied: Adam Felber 12 (Start: 4 / Correct: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about football in the news; Panel Questions; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about a famous person who used to do something quite different; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the next big television game show phenomenon?
The format of the first Who's Carl This Time? segment went back to the normal format where the questions are asked to the listener contestant without panelists providing multiple choice options.
Roy Blount, Jr. initially answered the last Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question with "spit", then changed his answer to "cigarettes, tobacco... marijuana" but did not say "marijuana" until Peter Sagal started saying "wacky tobaccy". Carl Kasell gave Roy credit for his changed answer.
The gong sound did not play before or during Adam Felber's last Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question even though Peter Sagal said it was the last question. Adam said "But there's no gong!", then the gong sound was played.
1999-11-27
- First: Charlie Pierce 13 (Start: 3 / Correct: 5)
- Second Tied: Adam Felber 11 (Start: 3 / Correct: 4)
- Second Tied: Roxanne Roberts 11 (Start: 3 / Correct: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about obsolete words; Panel Questions; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about the never-ending war between humans and insects; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what is a previously unknown fact about a post mistake?
This is show is a special "Wait Wait Are You Nuts?" edition featuring "Blunders, Bloopers and Bad Ideas".
The NPR.org site does not have a page for this show; though, the show page for the 1999-12-11 show has details for this show. Studs Terkel's name was not correctly spelled on that show page.
The rules for the Listener Limerick Challenge and the second Who's Carl This Time? segment were read by the two stars for the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre's "Antony and Cleopatra".
Studs Terkel initially answered "B" for the third Not My Job question but changed his answer to "C" after Peter Sagal asked him what his second choice was. Carl Kasell gave Studs credit for the changed answer. Answering two Not My Job questions correctly will be known as scoring a "Studs".
Each of the panelists had themed Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank questions. Adam Felber's theme was bad publicity, Roxanne Roberts' theme was lame trends, fads and crazes. Charlie Pierce's theme was dumb sports maneuvers. Roxanne was asked nine Lightning questions instead of the typical, though not always standard, eight questions.