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1999-03-27

NPR DB ID: 356
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Chosen Claudia Perry
Chosen Claudia Perry
Description

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?

Notes

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.