Show Details: February 1999
1999-02-06
- First: Margo Kaufman 14 (Start: 6 / Correct: 4)
- Second: Adam Felber 12 (Start: 2 / Correct: 5)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. 10 (Start: 2 / Correct: 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 9.5 (Start: 3.5 / Correct: 3)
- Second: Charlie Pierce 9 (Start: 5 / Correct: 2)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts 8.5 (Start: 2.5 / Correct: 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 12 (Start: 4 / Correct: 4)
- Second: Adam Felber 11 (Start: 3 / Correct: 4)
- Third: Sue Ellicott 9 (Start: 3 / Correct: 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 9 (Start: 5 / Correct: 2)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. 7 (Start: 3 / Correct: 2)
- Third: Adam Felber 5 (Start: 1 / Correct: 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".