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 15 (Start: 3 / Correct: 6)
- Second: P.J. O'Rourke 10 (Start: 2 / Correct: 4)
- Third: Sue Ellicott 8 (Start: 2 / Correct: 3)
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about new workplace vocabulary, Bluff the Listener about cheaters, Panelist Predictions: what are some of the reasons that caused Judge Samuel Alito's wife to cry during his confirmation hearing?
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 17 (Start: 3 / Correct: 7)
- Second Tied: Kyrie O'Connor 11 (Start: 1 / Correct: 5)
- Second Tied: Roy Blount, Jr. 11 (Start: 3 / Correct: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about Benjamin Franklin, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will NASA find on Pluto with the New Horizon spacecraft?
2006-01-28
- First: Adam Felber 18 (Start: 4 / Correct: 7)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts 16 (Start: 2 / Correct: 7)
- Third: Mo Rocca 11 (Start: 3 / Correct: 4)
Carl Kasell's Countdown, Bluff the Listener about dangerous clothing, Not My Job about "Worst Business Moments of 2005" by "Business 2.0" magazine, Who's Carl This Time?, Panelist Predictions: what will appear in the supposed photos with Jack Abramoff and President Bush?
The first show to be made available as a podcast.