Show Details: March 1999
1999-03-06
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Rank:
First:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Adam Felber
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 3
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Rank:
Third:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 8
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 3
- Korva Coleman Score: 1
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about scientific breakthroughs; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a story that contains the three words: suit, bars and lavender; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
1999-03-13
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Rank:
First Tied:
Margo Kaufman
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
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Rank:
First Tied:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 9.5
Lightning Start: 3.5 Correct: 3
- Lynn Neary Score: 3
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about formerly famous people in the news; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a protest that didn't go quite as planned; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
Roxanne Roberts started the Lightning Fill In The Blank segment with 3.5 points and had a total score of 9.5 points. Both scores have been rounded up for the integer score columns.
1999-03-20
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 5 Correct: 2
- Jeffrey Dvorkin Score: 2
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about past Academy Awards shows; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about an event to mark the end of winter and the beginning of spring; Week in Review/More News; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will the Taliban ban next?
The show page on NPR.org did not list the Bluff the Listener segment, but listed a second Who's Carl This Time? segment that was not included in the show. The third Week in Review segment was listed as More News on the same page.
Adam Felber answered his last Lightning Fill In The Blank question was "Sonny Bono's wife" and Charlie Pierce jumped in with "Cher". Neither Adam or Charlie got a bell ding for their answer. Up to that point, Adam had only answered five questions correct for 10 additional points and a total of 12. Carl Kasell noted that Adam had answered six correct for a total of 14 points. The score listed reflects the official record as stated by Carl.
The show ended with Panelist Predictions rather than the previous standard of Predicting Next Week's Headlines and Peter Sagal did not provide a prediction.
1999-03-27
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Claudia Perry
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 5
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 2
- Joe Palca Score: 2
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Week in Review; Not My Job about unlikely pop hits; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a new revelation about the tobacco industry; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: who will host next year's Oscars?
Joe Palca had been the first guest to answer one question correct. After that, a guest scoring one point would be referred to as scoring "a Palca". It was mentioned that a guest scoring only one point would, going forward, be referred to as scoring "an Inskeep" instead.
Towards the end of the Lightning Fill In The Blank segment, Roy Blount, Jr. surmised that no man had won two games in a row before. Peter Sagal won five games in a row from 1998-02-28 through 1998-03-28 (no final scores were tabulated and announced for the 1998-04-04 show) and Adam Felber won two games in a row, 1998-09-19 and 1998-09-26.