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?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about events in the early life of a famous person that nearly altered their destiny; Not My Job about most obscure, trivial items we could find on wikipedia.org; Panel Round #2; Carl Kasell's Mudsling-a-Thon; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the big surprise to come out of next week's elections?
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?; Opening Panel Round; The "Wait Wait" Unemployment Office; Not My Job about the worst worst video games of all time; Panel Round #2; Bluff the Listener about innovations for Thanksgiving innovations; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will President Bush and the Democrats find to agree on?
During the "Wait Wait" Unemployment Office segment, Peter had a little bit of fun when discussing George Allen's loss on election night
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?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about unexpected consequences from the 2006 midterm elections; Not My Job about a very short-lived variety show from 1980, "Pink Lady and Jeff"; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what vows will Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes end up exchanging at their wedding this weekend?
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".