Show Details: February 1999
1999-02-06
- First: Margo Kaufman Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 6 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second: Adam Felber Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about the arts and the law intersecting; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a new development in telecommunications; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
1999-02-13
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 9.5 (Starting Score: 3.5 / Correct Answers: 3)
- Second: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 5 / Correct Answers: 2)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 8.5 (Starting Score: 2.5 / Correct Answers: 3)
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about love and romantic entanglements; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a Biblical tourist attraction opening soon; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
The clip of the shouting Finns made a return to replace the sound of the gong during the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment. Roxanne Roberts and Adam Felber started the segment with 2.5 and 3.5 points, respectively. Both correctly answered three questions each for a respectively total of 8.5 and 9.5. Both scores have been rounded up for the integer score columns.
1999-02-20
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second: Adam Felber Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Third: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 3)
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about newsmaking activists and protestors; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a group speaking out for their rights; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
1999-02-27
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 5 / Correct Answers: 2)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 7 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 2)
- Third: Adam Felber Total Score: 5 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 2)
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about notable achievements in the televised past; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a new story that contains the three words: rock, whales and thousands (or their homophones); Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predictions: what will be Hillary Clinton's campaign slogan?
For Not My Job, there was a fourth option for "none of the above" for all three questions.
Instead of predicting headlines for the next week, the predictions were for a specific theme. Future Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! shows would replace "Predicting Next Week's Headlines" with "Panelist Predictions".