Show Details: July 1999
1999-07-03
- First: Roxanne Roberts 14 (Start: 4 / Correct: 5)
- Second: Adam Felber 12 (Start: 4 / Correct: 4)
- Third: Charlie Pierce 8 (Start: 2 / Correct: 3)
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about the national colors: red, white and blue; Listener Limerick Challenge; Panel Questions; Bluff the Listener about a howto course for the new millennium; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: What will be the next revelation about a Founding Father?
1999-07-10
- First: Adam Felber 15 (Start: 3 / Correct: 6)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts 12 (Start: 4 / Correct: 4)
- Third: Charlie Pierce 10 (Start: 4 / Correct: 3)
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about recent first releases of stamps; Listener Limerick Challenge; Panel Questions; Bluff the Listener about a new scientific evidence concerning the human senses; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the next thing Hillary Clinton do to prove she's really a New Yorker at heart?
1999-07-17
- First: Adam Felber 11 (Start: 3 / Correct: 4)
- Second Tied: Charlie Pierce 8 (Start: 4 / Correct: 2)
- Second Tied: Sue Ellicott 8 (Start: 4 / Correct: 2)
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Correction Theatre: Pasties; Not My Job about Ernest Hemingway; Listener Limerick Listener Limerick Challenge; Panel Questions; Bluff the Listener about someone taking new steps to protect themselves against a particular danger; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: What is the next thing Bob Smith will do to try to get some attention for his presidential campaign now that he left the Republican party?
The NPR.org page for this show listed the topic of the Panelist Prediction segment was "Jerry Springer's senatorial campaign slogan" instead of Bob Smith's presidential campaign.
1999-07-24
- First: Sue Ellicott 13 (Start: 3 / Correct: 5)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts 12 (Start: 4 / Correct: 4)
- Third: Charlie Pierce 10 (Start: 4 / Correct: 3)
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about new terms invented by show business; Listener Limerick Challenge; Panel Questions; Bluff the Listener about a questionable marketing strategy; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank
Paul Friedman, public announcer at Wrigley Field for the Chicago Cubs, provided the listener contestants with the rules for both Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge and Bluff the Listener segments. Paul also announced that panelists should not interrupt each other too much or they could be ejected from the game or face fines.
The NPR.org page for this show lists a Panelist Predictions segment, but one was not included in the version that aired.
1999-07-31
- First: Roxanne Roberts 16 (Start: 4 / Correct: 6)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. 12 (Start: 2 / Correct: 5)
- Third: Adam Felber 10 (Start: 4 / Correct: 3)
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about recent rotten reviews; Listener Limerick Challenge: Animals Edition; Panel Questions; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Bluff the Listener about a new personal protection device; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the next beloved animal that we hear something terrible about?
The NPR.org page for this show listed the topic of the Panelist Prediction segment was "Jerry Springer's senatorial campaign slogan" instead of something terrible about beloved animals.