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Show Details: April 1999

1999-04-03

NPR DB ID: 357
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Chosen Adam Felber
Description

Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about recent newsworthy gaffes; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a beloved food product turning 45; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the next big computer virus and what will it do?

Notes

John Burnett answered two Not My Job questions correct, which is now referred to as a "Palca" after Joe Palca answering two questions correct in the previous show. Before that, a "Palca" meant that the Not My Job guest had answered only one question correct as Joe did on his first appearance on the show.

The Bluff the Listener segment used a different format compared to previous Bluff the Listener segments. For this show's segment, they had Gerald Thomas on the line who invented a food product 45 years ago that the listener contestant had to guess. Instead of an elaborate story, the panelists only said the product name. The listener contestant was given a chance to ask Gerald a yes-or-no question before choosing which product Gerald had invented.

The clip of the shouting Finns replaced the sound of the gong for Roxanne Roberts.

1999-04-10

NPR DB ID: 358
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Description

Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about three joke-like news questions; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about contents of the CIA's oldest classified documents; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will Mayor Rudy Guiliani do next to improve life in New York City?

1999-04-17

NPR DB ID: 550
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Description

Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about really bad poetry; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about an unusable source of taxable income; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the subject of Hillary Clinton's fourth book?

Notes

During the Week in Review segment, Roxanne Roberts answered a question with "the voice of Wilma Flintstone" and got credit for the answer. Charlie Pierce said that Roxanne should have to provide the name of the voice actor to get the point; which, Peter Sagal said that Charlie Pierce could earn an extra point by providing the voice actor's name. Charlie did and got the extra point.

1999-04-24

NPR DB ID: 359
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
Not My Job Guest(s)
Description

Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about international TV game shows; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a fashion disaster; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will Dennis Rodman do next?

Notes

All three of the Not My Job questions had a fourth option, "D: All of the Above"