Show Details: 2005 Repeats
2005-01-01
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Rank:
First:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Richard Roeper
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Scott Turow Score: 2
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?
The Wait Wait.. Don't Tell Me! page for this show when you manually enter in the date for the show lists the date of 2004-01-05. That day is actually a Thursday and not a Saturday, which is the normal week day that shows are listed under. The information listed on that page matches that of the 2004-08-07 show and that is the information that I am using to fill in the information for this show.
2005-07-09
- Ira Glass Score: 1
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! showcasing favorite moments from 1999 to the present
According to the show page on NPR.org, this show is a repeat of the Best Of show that aired on 2004-12-25.
2005-10-15
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
- Bob Freer Score: 0
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about past events that shape a famous person's later own the road, Not My Job about Liberace, Carl Kasell's Countdown, Panelist Predictions: what will be discovered about Harriet Miers?
2005-12-31
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Mo Rocca
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Ira Glass Score: 2
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?