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Show Details: December 2005

2005-12-03

NPR DB ID: 85
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • First: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
  • Second Tied: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
  • Second Tied: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
Description

Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about ways to deal with troublesome teenagers, Not My Job about alcoholic drinks, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what backdrop will President Bush use next during a speech?

2005-12-10

NPR DB ID: 84
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
  • Second Tied: P.J. O'Rourke Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
  • Second Tied: Mo Rocca Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Chosen Mo Rocca
Chosen Mo Rocca
Description

Carl Kasell's Countdown, Bluff the Listener about new sports, Not My Job about holiday gifts for children of the rich and wealthy, Who's Carl This Time?, Panelist Predictions: what will happen in the first episode of Al Sharpton's proposed sitcom?

2005-12-17

NPR DB ID: 83
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • First Tied: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
  • First Tied: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
  • Third: Tom Bodett Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Description

Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about intelligent criminals, Not My Job about the late Senator William Proxmire and his Golden Fleece Awards, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: how will librarians counter the FBI's snooping of their libraries?

2005-12-24

NPR DB ID: 82
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • First: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
  • Second Tied: Adam Felber Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 3)
  • Second Tied: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Chosen Adam Felber
Chosen Adam Felber
Description

Carl Kasell's Countdown, Bluff the Listener about people saving Christmas from grinches, Not My Job about heated oratories of Britain's Parliament, Who's Carl This Time?, Panelist Predictions: what newsmaker will find what gift under his or her Christmas tree?

2005-12-31

Repeat: 2004-01-03 NPR DB ID: 81
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • 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)
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Chosen Mo Rocca
Description

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?