Show Details: December 2006
2006-12-02
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Amy Dickinson
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Mo Rocca
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
- Amy Sedaris Score: 1
Carl Kasell's Apologypalooza; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about movies making life difficult for people in the real world; Not My Job about questions taken from the book "Hemingway and Bailey's Bartending Guide"; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: if not a civil war, what will we finally agree to call the situation in Iraq?
At the end of Amy Dickinson's set of Lightning Fill In The Blank questions, Mo Rocca asked if "panda porn" was in black and white.
2006-12-09
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Rank:
First:
Tom Bodett
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 5 Correct: 3
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Angela Nissel
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Tina Fey Score: 1
Carl Kasell's Missed Connections; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about ways to improve the resale value of your home; Not My Job about questions taken from the "Definitive Book of Body Language"; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time?; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will President Bush do with the report issued by the Iraq Study Group?
2006-12-16
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 19
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 8
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Rank:
Second:
Kyrie O'Connor
Total: 17
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Third:
Mo Rocca
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
- Pam Melroy Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about holiday traditions in trouble; Not My Job about the most embarrassing media errors and corrections according to the Crunk Awards handed out by RegretTheError.com; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will President Bush decide is the "New Way Forward" in Iraq?
2006-12-23
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 18
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Second:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 5
- Branford Marsalis Score: 0
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about the worst toys of all time taken from a list in "Radar" magazine; Panel Round #2; Bluff the Listener about revenge in the news; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: who will be "Time"'s Person of the Year for 2007?
2006-12-30
- Anthony Williams Score: 2
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! including: psychic Adam Felber and "embarrassing" answers, Roxanne and Mo lengthy attempts to correctly answer their questions, Dick Cheney incident, P.J. aggrieved rants, Bluff the Listener about KISS, Not My Job with D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams about Turkmenistan, panelists working together and thinking alike
At the start of the final segment, Peter Sagal mentioned that the clips came from the "May 15th" show. There was no show that aired on 2006-05-15. Instead, the clips came from the 2006-05-13 show.