Show Details: January 2006
2006-01-07
- Maj. Robert Bateman Score: 1 *
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
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Rank:
First:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
P.J. O'Rourke
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 8
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 3
- Andrei Codrescu Score: 1
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
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 17
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Kyrie O'Connor
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Penn Jillette Score: 1
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
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 18
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Second:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Third:
Mo Rocca
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Tim Meadows Score: 0
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.