Show Details: 2001
2001-01-06
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Rank:
First:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Adam Felber
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Dan Bern Score: 0
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about adventures in commercial aviation, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about measurements, Panelist Predictions: how will the Democrats take advantage of their short-lived power in the Senate?
2001-01-13
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 5 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
- Melissa Block Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My job about pets, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about dealing with winter, Panelist Predictions: what will be the true identity to "Ginger"?
2001-01-20
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Patt Morrison
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 3
- Robert Siegel (The Onion) Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about new high-tech products, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about making the Department of Public Works work better, Panelist Predictions: how will Bill Clinton spend his time once he's no longer president?
2001-01-27
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Rank:
First:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 6 Correct: 3
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Rank:
Third:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Loudon Wainwright III Score: 3
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about fast food, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about things you can't do but didn't know about, Panelist Predictions: how will the Bush White House exact revenge on the Clintonite pranksters?
2001-02-03
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Rank:
First:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 5 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Adam Felber
Total: 8
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 3
- George McGovern Score: 0
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about football, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about "Pardon me, Mr. President", Panelist Predictions: how will other morning shows outdo Good Morning America's live birth?
2001-02-10
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Rank:
First:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Adam Felber
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
- Don Gonyea Score: 2
Who's Corey This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about occupational obsolescence, Week in Review, Who's Corey This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about new concepts in museum exhibition that is too new for the viewing public, Panelist Predictions: how will Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman ease their broken hearts?
2001-02-17
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 5 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 6
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 2
- Frank De Ford Score: 1
Who's Corey This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about "You Went From the White House to the dog house", Week in Review, Who's Corey This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about the unlikeliest seminar, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next great discovery about the human genome?
2001-02-24
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 5 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Second:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Adam Felber
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 4
- Amy Reiter Score: 2
Who's Corey This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about "You're not going to Disneyworld--and man, are you going to be wishing you were", Week in Review, Who's Corey This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about a twist on the family business, Panelist Predictions: how will Eminem follow up his Grammy night duet with Elton John?
2001-03-03
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
- Simon Winchester Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about baseball, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about people who are determined to have it their way, Panelist Predictions: how will a vengeful God next send a warning to Bill Gates?
2001-03-10
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Rank:
First:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 7
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 3
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 7
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 2
- Tom and Ray Magliozzi Score: 3
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about art, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about a new religion that is raising eyebrows, Panelist Predictions: who will run the country if Vice President Cheney were ever incapacitated?
2001-03-17
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 17
Lightning Start: 5 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Patt Morrison
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 8
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 3
- Fred Child Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about the Ken doll, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about a cliche that truth of which has been debunked, Panelist Prediction: how will Ken celebrate his 40th birthday?
2001-03-24
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
- Lloyd Kauffman Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about the Gridiron Dinner, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about hands, Panelist Predictions: what will be Bush's next pet peeve?
2001-03-31
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 0 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 7
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 2
- Gwen Macsai Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about phobias, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about people trying to get insurance coverage on unexpected things, Panelist Predictions: who will be the next celebrity to change his or her name?
2001-04-07
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Rank:
First Tied:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
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Rank:
First Tied:
Adam Felber
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 5 Correct: 3
- Jim Morris Score: 3
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about Generoso Pope, Jr., Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about journalistic hijinks from eager reporters, Panelist predictions: what will be the next David Copperfield magic extravaganza to be televised?
2001-04-14
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Patt Morrison
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
- Fred Willard Score: 0
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about marshmallow peeps, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about two things you'd never think could come together but did, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next song the Bush administration will use to highlight a new policy or press release?
2001-04-21
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Rank:
First:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 5 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Adam Felber
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 3
- Bob Garfield Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about "If you have to leave a footprint on the sunken chest of every little old man between your seat and foul pole, you are going to get that ball!", Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about something that only happens in fairy tales, Panelist Predictions: what will happen if Dennis Tito visits the space station?
2001-04-28
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Rank:
First:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 8
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 3
- Margaret Cho Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about TV network memos, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about games, Panelist Predictions: what will be Kevin Costner's next quest to save the world?
2001-05-05
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Adam Felber
Total: 7
Lightning Start: 5 Correct: 1
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 7
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 2
- Linda Wertheimer Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about "You have no idea what these kids nowadays are even talking about", Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about Uri Geller, Panelist Predictions: what will be the first Country hit based on the recession?
2001-05-12
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
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:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 3
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 1
- Andrew Sullivan Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about Elizabeth Wurzel, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about the Doobie Brothers, Panelist Predictions: what would a Cliff's Notes of the news be?
2001-05-19
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Rank:
First:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Adam Felber
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Dan Savage Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about Wonder Woman, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about a new must-have corporate types need to have to succeed, Panelist Predictions: what will the FBI find in the vault full of files?
2001-05-26
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 5 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 3
- Sandra Tsing Loh Score: 0
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about words that magazines have banned from their pages, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about bad things gone good, Panelist Predictions: how will Republicans get their revenge on Senator Jim Jeffords for leaving the party?
2001-06-02
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
-
Rank:
Third:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Amy Carlson Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about the history of music censorship, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about new ways to keep or restore the peace, Panelist Predictions: what will be an unintended consequence of the Casey Martin Supreme Court decision?
2001-06-09
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Rank:
First:
Patt Morrison
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Adam Felber
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
- Dan Castelenetta Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about celebrity product endorsements, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about a dangerous aspect of an innocuous thing, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next celebrity endorsement?
2001-06-16
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Rank:
First:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 3
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Rank:
Third:
Adam Felber
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
- Will Shortz Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about the Gabor sisters, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about man affecting nature, Panelist Predictions: what will Phil Bronstein get next Father's Day?
2001-06-23
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
- Martin Amis Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about the Red Scare during and before the Cold War, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about the cutting edge in luxury goods, Panelist Predictions: what will the letter from Bush to the taxpayers announcing the tax rebate say?
2001-06-30
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
-
Rank:
Third:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
- John Mahoney Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about ketchup, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about desperate measures in desperate times, Panelist Predictions: how will Congress make the Patient's Bill of Rights more appealing to Americans?
2001-07-07
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Rank:
First:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 3
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Rank:
Second:
Adam Felber
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
-
Rank:
Third:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 6
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 2
- Nina Totenberg Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about "The Fools in the Academy Thought You Were Insane...Insane, I Tell You! But You'll Show Them!", Late 20th Century in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about bold strides in military strategy, Panelist Predictions: what quotes will be mocked 25 years from now?
2001-07-14
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Rank:
First:
Patt Morrison
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
-
Rank:
Second:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
-
Rank:
Third:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 3
- Sherman Alexie Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about Mötley Crüe, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about a tempest in the schools, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next thing we'll learn about early man?
2001-07-21
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Rank:
First:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
-
Rank:
Second:
Adam Felber
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
-
Rank:
Third:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 3
- Steve Albini Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about psychics, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about a new innovation in safety, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next thing touted as a benefit of smoking cigarettes?
2001-07-28
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
-
Rank:
Second:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
-
Rank:
Third:
Patt Morrison
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Jane Pratt Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about surfing, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about strange collectibles, Panelist Predictions: what will Laura Bush do to change her "nice" image?
After concluding the Bluff the Listener segment on the show that aired 2001-08-04, Peter Sagal stated that listeners had written in about the previous show's Bluff the Listener segment in which the story about people collecting air sickness bags was in fact a real thing that happens. That was the story that the listener contestant chose but it was not deemed the correct story. They are retroactively giving the listener the prize of Carl Kasell's message on their answering machine.
2001-08-04
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 6
-
Rank:
Second:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
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Rank:
Third:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 7
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 2
- Bill Griffith Score: 1
Who's Jean This Time?, Historical Reenactment Theatre, Not My Job about the 20 years of MTV, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about an everyday phenomenon explained, Panelist Predictions: how will MTV change in the next 20 years?
After concluding the Bluff the Listener segment, Peter Sagal stated that listeners had written in about the Bluff the Listener segment that aired on 2001-07-28; in which, the story about people collecting air sickness bags was in fact something that actually happens. That was the story that the listener contestant chose but it was not deemed the correct story. They are retroactively giving the listener the prize of Carl Kasell's message on their answering machine.
2001-08-11
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Rank:
First Tied:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
-
Rank:
First Tied:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
-
Rank:
Third:
Adam Felber
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
- Lisa Simeone Score: 1
Who's Jean This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about advertising, Week in Review, Who's Jean This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about misleading names, Panelist Predictions: what will be the title of Bill Clinton's memoirs?
2001-08-18
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Rank:
First:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 6
-
Rank:
Second:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 5
-
Rank:
Third:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
- Moon Unit Zappa Score: 2
Who's Jean This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about the Shriners, Week in Review, Who's Jean This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about unlikely plans that actually succeeded, Panelist Predictions: how will Bush redecorate the White House?
2001-08-25
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Rank:
First Tied:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
-
Rank:
First Tied:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
-
Rank:
Third:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Paul Sereno Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about pirated Asian CDs and DVDs, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about someone who took a jook a little too seriously, Panelist Predictions: what are Jesse Helm's plans for retirement?
2001-09-01
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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
- Al Franken Score: 2
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
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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
- Salman Rushdie Score: 1
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
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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
- P.J. O'Rourke Score: 3
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?
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
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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
- Kurt Andersen Score: 1
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?
2001-10-06
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Rank:
First:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 5 Correct: 5
-
Rank:
Second:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
-
Rank:
Third:
Adam Felber
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 5
- Bill Bastone Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about the early days of video games, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about little guys taking on the big boys, Panelist Predictions: what will be the first revelation from the Clinton White House Tapes?
2001-10-13
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Rank:
First Tied:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 5 Correct: 4
-
Rank:
First Tied:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
-
Rank:
Third:
Adam Felber
Total: 8
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 3
- John Flansburgh Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about GI Joe, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about don't do it yourself schemes, Panelist Predictions: where will a Muppet turn up unexpectedly next?
2001-10-20
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Rank:
First:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
-
Rank:
Second:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 3
-
Rank:
Third:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 7
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 2
- Rodney Yee Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about things the stars never wanted you to know, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about schemes to make people feel more secure, Panelist Predictions: who will be victimized next by overly tight security?
2001-10-27
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Rank:
First:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 6
-
Rank:
Second:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
-
Rank:
Third:
Adam Felber
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Jeffrey Toobin Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Historical Reenactment Theatre, Not My Job about the history of trash, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about new ways to mold young minds, Panelist Predictions: what will the Arizona Diamondbacks do to beat the New York Yankees?
2001-11-03
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
-
Rank:
Second:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 0 Correct: 6
-
Rank:
Third:
Adam Felber
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Tom and Dave Gardner Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about products endorsed by dead celebrities, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about souvenirs we'd love to buy, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next product attached to the name of a dead celebrity?
2001-11-10
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Rank:
First:
Evan Smith
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
- Dan Perkins Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about ants, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about peculiar letters, Panelist Predictions: what advertising slogan will America adopt in its war against terrorism?
2001-11-17
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Rank:
First:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Second Tied:
P.J. O'Rourke
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Gene Simmons Score: 0
Who's Jean This Time?, Historical Reenactment Theatre, Not My Job about Ricky Jay's "Jay's Journal of Anomalies", Who's Jean This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about solutions in which necessity mothered innovation, Panelist Predictions: how will Bush and Putin solidify their friendship?
2001-11-24
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Rank:
First:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 18
Lightning Start: 6 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Adam Felber
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Robert Siegel (NPR) Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about politician's regrettable pronouncements from both sides of the aisle, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about the less distinguished relatives of distinguished, accomplished people, Panelist Predictions: what will be the New York Times headline for 1 Jan 2050?
2001-12-01
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 4
- Joe Garagiola Jr. Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about Tupperware, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about enticements to shop, Panelist Predictions: how we will know when the recession has become a depression?
2001-12-08
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Second:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
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Rank:
Third:
Adam Felber
Total: 7
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 2
Who's Jean This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about Walt Disney's centennial, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about high-flying data that can also help us understand something more humble, Panelist Predictions: how will Strom Thurmond celebrate his 100th birthday?
2001-12-15
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Rank:
First:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Second:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 3
- Cokie Roberts Score: 2
Who's Jean This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about Minnesotans, Week in Review, Who's Jean This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about tributes gone awry, Panelist Predictions: what is in the inaudible bits of the Osama Bin Laden video?
2001-12-22
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Evan Smith
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 5
- Spalding Gray Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Historical Reenactment Theatre, Not My Job about Batman and Robin, Week in Review, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about innovations in the art of cleanliness, Panelist Predictions: where is Osama Bin Laden?
2001-12-29
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Rank:
First Tied:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rank:
First Tied:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Adam Felber
Total: 6
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 1
- Madeleine Albright Score: 0
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about luminaries lost in the past year, Announcement of the Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Newsmaker of the Year 2001, Historical Reenactment Theatre, Bluff the Listener about updates on stories reported earlier in the year, Panelist Predictions: what will be the big story in the new year?