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Show Details: September 2001

2001-09-01

NPR DB ID: 481
Host Guest: Adam Felber
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • Rank: First: Charlie Pierce Total: 12
    Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
  • Rank: Second Tied: Roxanne Roberts Total: 11
    Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
  • Rank: Second Tied: Sue Ellicott Total: 11
    Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Correct Charlie Pierce
Description

Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about the lives and loves of mosquitos, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about an offer that's too good to pass up, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next scandal to hit a children's institution?

2001-09-08

NPR DB ID: 482
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • Rank: First: Roxanne Roberts Total: 13
    Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
  • Rank: Second: Roy Blount, Jr. Total: 11
    Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
  • Rank: Third: Adam Felber Total: 10
    Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 3
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Chosen Adam Felber
Correct Adam Felber
Description

Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about PEZ, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about historical advances in political correctness, Panelist Predictions: what will be Janet Reno's Florida gubernatorial campaign slogan?

2001-09-22

NPR DB ID: 483
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • Rank: First: Adam Felber Total: 13
    Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
  • Rank: Second Tied: Roxanne Roberts Total: 9
    Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
  • Rank: Second Tied: Charlie Pierce Total: 9
    Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Correct Roxanne Roberts
Description

Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about Samuel Z. Arkoff, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about rejected espionage innovations, Panelist Predictions: what will be a sign that America has begun to heal?

Notes

Due to the events that happened on 2001-09-11, there wasn't a Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! show for the week of 2001-09-15.

P.J. O'Rourke would later become a regular panelist on the show.

2001-09-29

NPR DB ID: 484
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • Rank: First: Evan Smith Total: 16
    Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 6
  • Rank: Second Tied: Roy Blount, Jr. Total: 13
    Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
  • Rank: Second Tied: Sue Ellicott Total: 13
    Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Chosen Evan Smith
Correct Evan Smith
Description

Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about scholarships you might be embarrassed to accept, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about unlikely plans to save energy, Panelist Predictions: who will be the next person to come out of retirement?