Show Details: December 2006
2006-12-02
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second Tied: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second Tied: Mo Rocca Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
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
- First: Tom Bodett Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second Tied: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 5 / Correct Answers: 3)
- Second Tied: Angela Nissel Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
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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
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 19 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 8)
- Second: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Mo Rocca Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
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
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 5)
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
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.