Show Details
2006-01-14
NPR
DB ID: 78
Location
Chase Auditorium (Chicago, Illinois)
Host
Peter Sagal
Scorekeeper
Carl Kasell
Panelists
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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
Not My Job Guest(s)
- Andrei Codrescu Score: 1
Bluff
Description
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?
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".