Show Details: 2005 Repeats
2005-01-01
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. 13 (Start: 3 / Correct: 5)
- Second: Sue Ellicott 12 (Start: 2 / Correct: 5)
- Third: Richard Roeper 10 (Start: 2 / Correct: 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?
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
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
- First: Charlie Pierce 15 (Start: 3 / Correct: 6)
- Second: Paula Poundstone 13 (Start: 1 / Correct: 6)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts 12 (Start: 2 / Correct: 5)
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
- First: Charlie Pierce 11 (Start: 3 / Correct: 4)
- Second Tied: Mo Rocca 10 (Start: 2 / Correct: 4)
- Second Tied: Roxanne Roberts 10 (Start: 2 / Correct: 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?