Show Details: August 1999
1999-08-07
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Rank:
First:
Margo Kaufman
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Adam Felber
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
- Manoli Wetherell Score: 2
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about trademark disputes; Listener Limerick Challenge; Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about a controversy resolved by an official ruling; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: What Talk magazine will do to hype its second issue?
Margo Kaufman helped the listener contestant for the first Who's Carl This Time? segment by answering the question. The listener contestant didn't get credit for the answer, though they had answered the other two questions correct to win.
1999-08-14
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Rank:
First:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 18
Lightning Start: 6 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 6
- Vertamae Grosvenor Score: 1
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about the life and career of Alfred Hitchcock; Listener Limerick Challenge; Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about a very public mistake; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the next cost-cutting move from the George W. Bush campaign?
Stephen Schwartz was the special guest rules reader for the first Who's Carl This Time? and the Listener Limerick Challenge segments.
The show page on NPR.org has an incorrect spelling of Vertamae Grosvenor's name. The knife attack sound effect from the movie "Psycho" was used in place of the bell ding normally used during Not My Job.
Roxanne Roberts cracked up several times while reading her Bluff the Listener story.
1999-08-21
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
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Rank:
Second:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 8
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 3
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Rank:
Third:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 7
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 2
- Jim Nayder Score: 0
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about Amazon.com auction bidding recommendations; Listener Limerick Listener Limerick Challenge; Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about a new technology from space helping us here on Earth; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: What will convince Dan Quayle that it's finally time to leave the presidential race?
During the pre-news introduction and at the start of the Listener Limerick Challenge segment, Peter Sagal mentioned that the show's Limerick segment was the second ever "Listener Limerick Listener Limerick Challenge".
The Limerick segment for the 1999-06-12 was called "Listener Limerick Challenge: Listener Limerick Edition" as all three limericks were written and submitted by listeners. The Limerick segments for the 1999-06-19 and the 1999-07-17 shows were called "Listener Limerick Listener Limerick Challenge". This means that this show's Limerick segment would actually be the fourth all listener submitted Limerick segment and third segment officially called "Listener Limerick Listener Limerick Challenge".
1999-08-28
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Rank:
First:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Adam Felber
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 3
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Rick Karr Score: 2
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about pop songs used in television commercials; Listener Limerick Challenge; Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about a lawsuit for emotional distress; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be President Warren Beaty's first official act?
The second Opening Panel Round question, asked to Roy Blount, Jr., was a limerick that was submitted by a listener.
After the listener contestant for Bluff the Listener did not win, his daughter said something to the effect of "Made a fool", causing Peter Sagal and the panelists to crack up laughing. Peter asked if they could speak to the listener's daughter and chatted with her for a moment.