Show Details: January 2006
2006-01-07
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! including: singing mice, "666"/"616" introduction debacle, Not My Job with Maj. Robert Bateman, Paula Poundstone's first win
2006-01-14
- First: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: P.J. O'Rourke Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Third: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 8 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 3)
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about new workplace vocabulary; Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about clever cheaters who nearly got away with their schemes; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what caused Judge Samuel Alito's wife to cry during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings?
Listener, an English teacher at "Lick-Wilmerding High School", has problem with rhymes and limericks, while Paula has fun with the name "Lick-Wilmerding" and yells "... POINT LICK-WILMERDING!!!". Interestingly, the answer for the first limerick was "dumb".
2006-01-21
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second Tied: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second Tied: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about Benjamin Franklin; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will NASA find on Pluto with the New Horizon spacecraft?
2006-01-28
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Mo Rocca Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
Carl Kasell's Countdown; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about clothing that can hurt you; Not My Job about "Worst Business Moments of 2005" by "Business 2.0" magazine; Panel Round #2; Panel Round #3; Who's Carl This Time?; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will turn up in the those supposed photographs with George W. Bush and Jack Abramoff?
The first show to be made available as a podcast.