Show Details: March 1999
1999-03-06
- First: Roxanne Roberts 14 (Start: 2 / Correct: 6)
- Second: Adam Felber 10 (Start: 4 / Correct: 3)
- Third: Charlie Pierce 8 (Start: 2 / Correct: 3)
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
- First Tied: Margo Kaufman 12 (Start: 4 / Correct: 4)
- First Tied: Charlie Pierce 12 (Start: 2 / Correct: 5)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts 9.5 (Start: 3.5 / Correct: 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
- First: Adam Felber 14 (Start: 2 / Correct: 6)
- Second: Charlie Pierce 11 (Start: 3 / Correct: 4)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts 9 (Start: 5 / Correct: 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
- First: Adam Felber 14 (Start: 2 / Correct: 6)
- Second: Claudia Perry 11 (Start: 3 / Correct: 4)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. 5 (Start: 1 / Correct: 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.