2006-01-14

Show Details

NPR DB ID: 78

Location Chase Auditorium (Chicago, Illinois)

Host Peter Sagal

Scorekeeper Carl Kasell

Panelists

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)

Not My Job Guest(s)

Andrei Codrescu 1

Bluff

Chosen Paula Poundstone

Description

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?

Notes

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".