Show Details
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.