Show Details
1999-04-03
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Third: Adam Felber Total Score: 8 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 3)
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?
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.