Show Details: November 2006
2006-11-04
- First Tied: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- First Tied: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 4)
- First Tied: P.J. O'Rourke Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about famous people who almost changed their destiny, Not My Job about obscure topics found in Wikipedia, Carl Kasell's Mudsling-a-Thon, Panelist Predictions: what will be some of the 2006 midterm election surprises?
2006-11-11
- First: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second Tied: Aamer Haleem Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second Tied: Tom Bodett Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, The "Wait Wait" Unemployment Office, Not My Job about worst video games listed by "PC World", Bluff the Listener about Thanksgiving innovations, Panelist Predictions: what will President Bush and the Democrats agree on?
Peter throws around a bit of Yiddish after talking about George Allen losing
2006-11-18
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Paul Provenza Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 5 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 2)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about unexpected consequences from the 2006 midterm elections, Not My Job about "Pink Lady and Jeff", Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will be Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes's wedding vows?
When Paula remarked that Harry Shearer must have had the "Pink Lady and Jeff" DVD set, Harry replied stating he does not think DVDs have been made of the show. At that point, Paula retorted he would have had the "Director's Cut". In fact, a DVD set of "Pink Lady" was released in 2001.
2006-11-25
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Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! including: G8 summit, Hogan Heroes, Greenpeace and two examples of Peter screwing up.
Luke Burbank was the guest host for the 2006-08-19 and 2006-08-26 shows where the clips included in the second and third segments. Those segments were titled "Paula Poundstone's Personal Disclosures" and "The Wait Wait Petting Zoo" on the NPR website.
Corey Flintoff was the guest scorekeeper for the 2006-06-17 show for the clips included in the seventh and tenth segments titled "Wait Wait... That's Really Bad News" and "Wait Wait... That's Kinda Highbrow".