Show Details
1999-08-14
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. 18 (Start: 6 / Correct: 6)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts 16 (Start: 4 / Correct: 6)
- Third: Charlie Pierce 13 (Start: 1 / Correct: 6)
Opening Round; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about the life and career of Alfred Hitchcock; Listener Limerick Challenge; Panel Questions; 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.