Show Details: January 2004
2004-01-03
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second Tied: Mo Rocca Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second Tied: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about historical facts that were supposed to be set in stone, Not My Job about poet Martin Tupper, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what historical figure will be found to have been wrong about all along?
This is the first time that Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! recorded in front of a live audience at the Bank One/Chase Auditorium in downtown Chicago. They would later make it their regular home for live tapings starting with the show that aired on 2005-05-14.
2004-01-10
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 20 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 8)
- Second Tied: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second Tied: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about machines becoming too smart, Not My Job about changes in the game called life, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be discovered about Britney Spears' wedding and annulment?
2004-01-17
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: P.J. O'Rourke Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about products and services for the lonely, Not My Job about the nation's chief law enforcement officer, Listener Mailbag, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will the Mars rover find on Mars?
2004-01-24
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about things people do but shouldn't, Not My Job about running a company into the ground, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: how will Howard Dean make people forget about his "scream"?
2004-01-31
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 20 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 8)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about innovative criminal defenses, Not My Job about Ann Miller, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the most talked about Super Bowl ad?