Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Stats Page
Show Details: 1999
1999-01-02
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Guests
Description
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring some Not My Job guests from the past year
Notes
The NPR.org site does not have a page for this show.
1999-01-09
NPR
DB ID: 345
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
- First Tied: Roxanne Roberts 13 (1 / 6)
- First Tied: Charlie Pierce 13 (3 / 5)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. 11 (3 / 4)
Bluff(s)
Description
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about Elvis Presley; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a Cold War diplomatic near-faux pas; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
Notes
For the Not My Job segment, the three questions were split out so that Laura Lorson, Sara Sorasohn and Rob Robinson would be asked a question each. Both Laura and Rob answered their questions correct, but Sara did not.
Charlie Pierce was asked nine questions during the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment.
1999-01-16
NPR
DB ID: 346
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
- First: Roxanne Roberts 9.5 (3.5 / 3)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. 8.5 (2.5 / 3)
- Third: Adam Felber 8 (2 / 3)
Guests
Bluff(s)
Description
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about new business ventures; Week in Review; Listener Limerick Challenge; Bluff the Listener about a company that is taking customer relations to a startling new level; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
Notes
Roxanne Roberts and Roy Blount, Jr. started the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment with 3.5 and 2.5 points, respectively. Both answered three questions correct for a total of 9.5 and 8.5 points, respectively. Both scores have been rounded up for the integer score columns.
1999-01-23
NPR
DB ID: 347
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
- First: Roxanne Roberts 14 (4 / 5)
- Second: Andrea Michaels 9 (3 / 3)
- Third: Charlie Pierce 6 (2 / 2)
Guests
Bluff(s)
Description
Week in Review; You Are There: The Trial of the President; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about rhetorical profiles; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a new use for artificial intelligence; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
1999-01-30
NPR
DB ID: 348
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
- First: Roxanne Roberts 15 (5 / 5)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. 9 (3 / 3)
- Third: Charlie Pierce 8 (2 / 3)
Guests
Bluff(s)
Description
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Bluff the Listener about an obsolete law being enforced; Not My Job about pre-Super Bowl news; Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
1999-02-06
NPR
DB ID: 349
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
- First: Margo Kaufman 14 (6 / 4)
- Second: Adam Felber 12 (2 / 5)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. 10 (2 / 4)
Guests
Bluff(s)
Description
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about the arts and the law intersecting; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a new development in telecommunications; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
1999-02-13
NPR
DB ID: 350
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
- First: Adam Felber 9.5 (3.5 / 3)
- Second: Charlie Pierce 9 (5 / 2)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts 8.5 (2.5 / 3)
Guests
Bluff(s)
Description
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about love and romantic entanglements; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a Biblical tourist attraction opening soon; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
Notes
The clip of the shouting Finns made a return to replace the sound of the gong during the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment. Roxanne Roberts and Adam Felber started the segment with 2.5 and 3.5 points, respectively. Both correctly answered three questions each for a respectively total of 8.5 and 9.5. Both scores have been rounded up for the integer score columns.
1999-02-20
NPR
DB ID: 351
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
- First: Roxanne Roberts 12 (4 / 4)
- Second: Adam Felber 11 (3 / 4)
- Third: Sue Ellicott 9 (3 / 3)
Guests
Bluff(s)
Description
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about newsmaking activists and protestors; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a group speaking out for their rights; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
1999-02-27
NPR
DB ID: 352
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
- First: Roxanne Roberts 9 (5 / 2)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. 7 (3 / 2)
- Third: Adam Felber 5 (1 / 2)
Guests
Bluff(s)
Description
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about notable achievements in the televised past; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a new story that contains the three words: rock, whales and thousands (or their homophones); Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predictions: what will be Hillary Clinton's campaign slogan?
Notes
For Not My Job, there was a fourth option for "none of the above" for all three questions.
Instead of predicting headlines for the next week, the predictions were for a specific theme. Future Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! shows would replace "Predicting Next Week's Headlines" with "Panelist Predictions".
1999-03-06
NPR
DB ID: 353
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
- First: Roxanne Roberts 14 (2 / 6)
- Second: Adam Felber 10 (4 / 3)
- Third: Charlie Pierce 8 (2 / 3)
Guests
Bluff(s)
Description
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about scientific breakthroughs; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a story that contains the three words: suit, bars and lavender; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
1999-03-13
NPR
DB ID: 354
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
- First Tied: Margo Kaufman 12 (4 / 4)
- First Tied: Charlie Pierce 12 (2 / 5)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts 9.5 (3.5 / 3)
Guests
Bluff(s)
Description
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about formerly famous people in the news; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a protest that didn't go quite as planned; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
Notes
Roxanne Roberts started the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment with 3.5 points and had a total score of 9.5 points. Both scores have been rounded up for the integer score columns.
1999-03-20
NPR
DB ID: 355
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
- First: Adam Felber 14 (2 / 6)
- Second: Charlie Pierce 11 (3 / 4)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts 9 (5 / 2)
Guests
Bluff(s)
Description
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about past Academy Awards shows; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about an event to mark the end of winter and the beginning of spring; Week in Review/More News; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will the Taliban ban next?
Notes
The show page on NPR.org did not list the Bluff the Listener segment, but listed a second Who's Carl This Time? segment that was not included in the show. The third Week in Review segment was listed as More News on the same page.
Adam Felber answered his last Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question was "Sonny Bono's wife" and Charlie Pierce jumped in with "Cher". Neither Adam or Charlie got a bell ding for their answer. Up to that point, Adam had only answered five questions correct for 10 additional points and a total of 12. Carl Kasell noted that Adam had answered six correct for a total of 14 points. The score listed reflects the official record as stated by Carl.
The show ended with Panelist Predictions rather than the previous standard of Predicting Next Week's Headlines and Peter Sagal did not provide a prediction.
1999-03-27
NPR
DB ID: 356
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about the person responsible for current hits, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about a new revelation about the tobacco industry, Who's Carl This Time? Round II
1999-04-03
NPR
DB ID: 357
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about newsworthy gaffes, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about a beloved food product turns 45, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next computer virus and what will it do?
1999-04-10
NPR
DB ID: 358
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about science test subjects, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about CIA wanting documents to stay classified, Panelist Predictions: what will Giuliani do next to improve life in New York City?
1999-04-17
NPR
DB ID: 550
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about bad poetry, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about a strange source of income someone declared, Panelist Predictions: what will be the subject of Hillary Rodham Clinton's fourth book?
1999-04-24
NPR
DB ID: 359
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about overseas TV gameshows, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about a fashion mistake that seemed like a good idea at first, Panelist Predictions: what will Dennis Rodman do in his post-basketball career?
1999-05-01
NPR
DB ID: 360
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about Duke Ellington, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about summer movies, Panelist Predictions
1999-05-08
NPR
DB ID: 361
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about the Merck Manual, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about an outstanding British invention to be honored at the millennium celebrations, Panelist Predictions
1999-05-15
NPR
DB ID: 362
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about Jesse Ventura, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about an effort to patch up a long-standing dispute, Panelist Predictions
1999-05-22
NPR
DB ID: 363
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about identifying real cultural icons from mythical ones, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about an allegation of plagiarism, Panelist Predictions
1999-05-29
NPR
DB ID: 364
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about get-in-office tactics of some foreign politicians, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about Newt Gingrich, Panelist Predictions
1999-06-05
NPR
DB ID: 365
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about the National Spelling Bee, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about another politician who's fallen from grace and is back in the public eye, Panelist Predictions
1999-06-12
NPR
DB ID: 366
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about tort reform news from around the world, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about a new use for old television, Panelist Predictions: what will be Oscar Goodman's first official action as mayor of Las Vegas?
1999-06-19
NPR
DB ID: 367
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about new words from the Oxford English Dictionary, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about an unusual denial from the government, Panelist Predictions: what will Al Gore do next to prove he's not boring?
1999-06-26
NPR
DB ID: 368
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about unusual candies debuted at the National Confectioner's Association "All Candy Expo", Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about the rush to advertise in an unusual place, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next revelations from the KGB's Kennedy Files?
1999-07-03
NPR
DB ID: 369
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about the colors red, white and blue, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about how-to for the new millennium, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next revelation about a founding father?
1999-07-10
NPR
DB ID: 370
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about extreme stamp collecting, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about a new scientific evidence concerning the human senses, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next thing Hillary Clinton do to prove she is a New Yorker at heart?
1999-07-17
NPR
DB ID: 371
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about Ernest Hemingway's life, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about someone taking new steps to protect themselves against a particular danger, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will be Jerry Springer's senatorial campaign slogan?
1999-07-24
NPR
DB ID: 372
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about entertainment industry's neologisms, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about a questionable marketing strategy, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions
1999-07-31
NPR
DB ID: 373
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about Addison Dewitt, Listener Limerick Challenge, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about a new personal protection device, Panelist Predictions
1999-08-07
NPR
DB ID: 374
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about trademark law, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about a controversy resolved by an official ruling, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will Talk magazine do to hype its next issue?
1999-08-14
NPR
DB ID: 375
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about Alfred Hitchcock, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about a really bad mistake being acknowledged, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions
1999-08-21
NPR
DB ID: 376
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job on "You're the Synergist!", Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about technology from space helping us here on Earth, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will convince Dan Quayle to finally leave the presidential race?
1999-08-28
NPR
DB ID: 377
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about pop songs used in TV commercials, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about someone suing for emotional distress, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what would be President Warren Beatty's first official act?
1999-09-04
NPR
DB ID: 378
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about work place issues, Bluff the Listener about an unlikely new spokesperson, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next collecting crazy?
1999-09-11
NPR
DB ID: 379
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Guest:
Jean Cochran
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Jean This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about odd inventions you never knew you needed, Bluff the Listener about a real personal ad, Who's Jean This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next giant merger?
1999-09-18
NPR
DB ID: 380
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Guest:
Corey Flintoff
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Corey This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job, Bluff the Listener about a new effort to bring the faithful back into the fold, Who's Corey This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next controversial rule change at the Miss America pageant?
1999-09-25
NPR
DB ID: 381
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about fashion, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about science trying to explain a work of fiction, Panelist Predictions
1999-10-02
NPR
DB ID: 382
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about what things are retro, Bluff the Listener about a request for mercy denied, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: how will Dan Quayle pay the bills?
1999-10-09
NPR
DB ID: 383
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about identifying new discoveries in the animal kingdom, Bluff the Listener about who is and why people are talking about Harvey Ball, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next classic rock standard to be cited by Al Gore?
1999-10-16
NPR
DB ID: 384
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about diet crazes, Bluff the Listener about a piece of sports memorabilia to be auctioned off, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next celebrity-stuff action?
1999-10-23
NPR
DB ID: 385
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about urban legends, Bluff the Listener about a new theme park, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next step in Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia's plan for world domination?
1999-10-30
NPR
DB ID: 386
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about lexicography, Bluff the Listener about something they didn't teach you in home ec, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what are some occupations that hereditary peers ousted from the House of Lords will move into?
1999-11-06
NPR
DB ID: 387
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about lower forms of life, Bluff the Listener about someone who went a bit too far, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: who will be the next controversial advisor Al Gore will hire?
1999-11-13
NPR
DB ID: 388
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about food, Bluff the Listener about coffee creamer in the news, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: how will Bill Gates be punished?
1999-11-20
NPR
DB ID: 389
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about football, Bluff the Listener about a famous person's secret history, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next monstrously popular game show sensation?
1999-12-04
NPR
DB ID: 390
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about less dire emergencies in the news, Bluff the Listener about something going high tech that didn't need to go high tech, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next rule for Sylvester Stallone's servants?
1999-12-11
NPR
DB ID: 391
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job on "You're The Antiquarian Linguist", Bluff the Listener about the ongoing battle between humans and insects, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what grand historical blunder will soon be discovered and announced?
1999-12-18
NPR
DB ID: 392
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about a kinder, gentler law enforcement, Bluff the Listener about a package tour of someone's dreams, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next big thing the US will give away?
1999-12-25
NPR
DB ID: 393
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about winter holidays traditions around the world, Bluff the Listener about a Santa story, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what form will a politician would like to be reincarnated as?