Show Details: 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?
2004-02-07
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Adam Felber Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Jean This Time?, Bluff the Listener about how David Hasselhoff is very displeased, Not My Job about József Eszterhás, Who's Jean This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: who will trademark the next personal thing?
2004-02-14
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 5 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Mo Rocca Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 3)
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Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about inventive advertisements, Not My Job about dodging military service during the Vietnam War, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will Disney deal with next?
2004-02-21
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about warnings for parents, Not My Job about the Golden Age of Zeppelins, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what product will take up Madge the manicurist's slogan "You're Soaking In It?"
2004-02-28
- First: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Adam Felber Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 8 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 3)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about innovative education techniques, Not My Job about Paris Hilton, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: how will Democrats stop Ralph Nader?
2004-03-06
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Mo Rocca Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about peculiar troubles at Disney, Not My Job about mischievous and malevolent spirits through history, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Wait Wait Time Machine, Panelist Predictions: what will replace "supersize" options in fast food restaurants?
2004-03-13
- First Tied: Mo Rocca Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- First Tied: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about ways to change men's slovenly and uncaring ways, Not My Job about Coca Cola, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: who will be caught by surprise by an open mic?
2004-03-20
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 19 (Starting Score: 5 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second Tied: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second Tied: P.J. O'Rourke Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about lousy government jobs, Not My Job about cop and detective shows from the 1970's, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will John Kerry say, then immediately regret saying?
2004-03-27
- First: Karen Grigsby Bates Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second Tied: Adam Felber Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second Tied: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about an article about roadies from an issue of "Spin" magazine, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about strange labor miscues, Panelist Predictions: what will happen in the upcoming NCAA tournament?
2004-04-03
- First Tied: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- First Tied: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: P.J. O'Rourke Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about household hints gone wrong, Not My Job about Donald Trump, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what songs will be found on Vice President Dick Cheney's new iPod?
2004-04-10
- First Tied: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- First Tied: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 5 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about Stevie Nicks, Not My Job about taxes, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: after Bob Dylan, who will make a surprising appearance in a television commercial?
2004-04-17
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 19 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 8)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about new competitive sports, Not My Job about rats, Mystery Newsmaker, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what mistakes have the panelists made in the past three years?
2004-04-24
- First Tied: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- First Tied: Adam Felber Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about NASCAR creeping into everyday life, Not My Job about the history and science of the joke, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be discovered from Bob Woodward's next book?
2004-05-01
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 19 (Starting Score: 5 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Karen Grigsby Bates Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about small revolutions within law enforcement, Not My Job about Estée Lauder, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will Bill Clinton's autobiography really be called?
2004-05-08
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second: Adam Felber Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about ways athletes try to gain the advantage, Not My Job about Atlantic City, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, What's My Motivation?, Panelist Predictions: what will the Kerry campaign team settle as its main message?
When providing an answer in the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round, Peter mis-pronounced "Gina Lollobrigida" when stating that Canada's Parliament erupted in fighting and cat-calls when someone mis-pronounced her name, which lead to Charlie Pierce cat-calling Peter with "you're a cat, Peter".
2004-05-15
- First: P.J. O'Rourke Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second Tied: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second Tied: Mo Rocca Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about someone who invented something that is really not needed, Not My Job about the history of dieting, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what change will take place to avoid the FCC's indecency crackdown?
Mo Rocca had a fit of humorously taking a long time come up with an answer during his Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round and when asked by Peter to give him something, Mo slipped out "shit" to which Peter retorted with "don't give me that Mo". The answer to that particular question with "The Osmonds" and Peter gave Mo a hard time by saying to Mo, "Dude, I thought you loved the 70's", as Mo was a frequent commentator on VH1's "I Love the 70's" and other "I Love the..." series.
2004-05-22
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Adam Felber Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about cicadas, Bluff the Listener about Good Samaritans being punished for their good deeds, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will the hungry cicadas demand?
2004-05-29
- First Tied: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
- First Tied: P.J. O'Rourke Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about new ground-breaking documentary, Not My Job about Bill Clinton, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: how will the auto industry cope with high gas prices?
2004-06-05
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about an idea by Click and Clack of "Car Talk", Not My Job about Richard Grasso, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what is the real reason for George Tenet leaving?
2004-06-12
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Adam Felber Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Jean This Time? (Reagan Era Edition), Bluff the Listener about safe items that turned out to be dangerous, Not My Job about candy, Who's Jean This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what are some of the lesser-known tributes to Ronald Reagan?
2004-06-19
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Corey This Time?, Bluff the Listener about a descriptive phrase that turned out to be untrue, Not My Job about the Skull and Bones society, Bargain Matinee, Panelist Predictions: what are some of the better acronyms for panelist government programs?
2004-06-26
- First: P.J. O'Rourke Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 5 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second: Mo Rocca Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Corey This Time?, Bluff the Listener about creative methods of raising money, Not My Job about weirdest injuries suffered by baseball players, Who's Corey This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will be some of the successful tie-in items associated with Bill Clinton's "My Life"?
2004-07-03
- 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?
2004-07-10
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second Tied: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second Tied: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about rock stars choosing an easy listening way of life, Not My Job about the Walkman, Mystery Newsmaker Game, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: how will John Edwards change John Kerry's campaign?
2004-07-17
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about cable TV programs that are bad for your health, Not My Job about Britney Spear's upcoming marriage, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: how will Martha Stewart spend her time in prison?
2004-07-24
- First: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Mo Rocca Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about outsourcing of labor, Not My Job about the Olympic inaugural festivities, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what surprising headline will result from the Democratic National Convention?
2004-07-31
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: P.J. O'Rourke Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 5 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about jokes that were not so funny, Not My Job about Bobby Fischer, Carl Kasell's Convention Countdown, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what controversial line will be edited out from a Democratic National Convention speech?
2004-08-07
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Richard Roeper Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about ideas on defeating your enemies, Not My Job about New York's Times Square, "Either Those Curtains Go, or I Do...", Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what previously unknown last words of famous people will be revealed?
Carl Kasell miscalculated Roy Blount Jr.'s score at the end of the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round by stating he had 5 correct answers (+10 points) and won with 14 points, even though Carl stated that Roy started the round with 3 points; therefore the correct score should be 13 (which is the score entered).
2004-08-14
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: P.J. O'Rourke Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 3)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about home-spun espionage, Not My Job about rejected reviews from the "Zagat Restaurant Guide", Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what big story will come out of the Olympics held in Greece?
2004-08-21
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Adam Felber Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Mo Rocca Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Carl Kasell's Countdown, Not My Job about "The Naked Olympics", Bluff the Listener about one man's trash is another man's treasure, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will protesters do at the Republican National Convention in New York?
2004-08-28
- First Tied: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- First Tied: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about unsung innovators in rock'n'roll, Not My Job about tricks of various trades, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: where will the stolen "The Scream" painting be found?
2004-09-04
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Richard Roeper Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about international diplomacy mistakes, Not My Job about unusual gambling habits of the British, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what were some of the outtakes of Jenna and Barbara Bush's speech at the RNC?
All three panelists have a first name that starts with the letter 'R'.
2004-09-11
- First: Mo Rocca Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Are You an NPR Geek?, Not My Job about the history of gunpowder, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be found inside the Genesis probe?
2004-09-18
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second: Mo Rocca Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
Carl Kasell's Countdown, Bluff the Listener about the gentle side of law enforcement, Not My Job about the most powerful people in technology and communications, Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what publicity stunt will be a big success?
2004-09-25
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: P.J. O'Rourke Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 5)
Carl Kasell's Countdown, Bluff the Listener about useless science experiments, Not My Job about Star Wars lore, Carl Kasell's Countdown Round II, Panelist Predictions: which forgotten singer/songwriter will get in trouble next with the Department of Homeland Security?
2004-10-02
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 19 (Starting Score: 5 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
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Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about initiatives aimed at apathetic voters, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the headlines created by the opening season for Washington D.C.'s baseball team?
2004-10-09
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 20 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 8)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Adam Felber Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about red tape and bureaucracy in the news, Not My Job about minor league baseball promotional stunts, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what headlines will come out of the final presidential debate?
2004-10-16
- First Tied: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- First Tied: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 5 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about new ways of franchising, Not My Job about Frank Sinatra's early career, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what did Senator John Kerry and President Bush jot down during the final presidential debate?
Kyrie O'Connor makes her debut as a panelist.
2004-10-23
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 3)
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Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about misbehaving appliances, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the leading headline from the 2004 World Series?
2004-10-30
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Adam Felber Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about surprising discoveries in archeology, Not My Job about the 100th anniversary of the New York subway system, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will be the leading headline from the elections?
2004-11-06
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second: Richard Roeper Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Third: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 8 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 2)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about people pushing hard to protect people from something that has not been considered bad, Not My Job about processed and packaged foods, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: which Democrats and Republicans will become 2008 presidential candidates?
2004-11-13
- First: Mo Rocca Total Score: 20 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 8)
- Second: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about opportunities for senior citizens, Not My Job about the early years of the National Football League, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what surprises will occur due to President Bush's cabinet shuffle?
2004-11-20
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 19 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 8)
- Second: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about new methods of espionage, Not My Job about William Safire of The New York Times, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what revelations will be found in Colin Powell's draft of his resignation letter?
2004-11-27
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
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Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about dirty political tricks that did not quite succeed, Not My Job about Providence, Rhode Island Mayor Buddy Cianci, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what new politician will rise up to our collective shame?
2004-12-04
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about kids growing up and taking revenge, Not My Job about history of The New York Post's Page Six gossip section, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will Ken Jennings do after losing on Jeopardy!?
2004-12-11
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 19 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 8)
- Second: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: P.J. O'Rourke Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
Who's Carl This Time?, Carl Kasell's Countdown, Not My Job about Bernard Kerik, Bluff the Listener about training courses for those looking for a new career, Panelist Predictions: what group will be hit be hit by the next doping scandal?
2004-12-18
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Adam Felber Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about contraband and illegal trade, Not My Job about the 1950's view of the "Kitchen of the Future", Wait Wait Mail Bag, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will Bernard Kerik do after no longer being a Department of Homeland Security Secretary candidate?
2004-12-25
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! showcasing favorite moments from 1999 to the present
The Not My Job segment with Ira Glass is from his third appearance as the guest from the 2000-05-20 show.