Show Details: April 2006
2006-04-01
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: P.J. O'Rourke Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about someone buying something that usually one gets for free; Not My Job about the history of Playboy's Playmates; Panel Round #2; The Lonelyhearts Game; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what loopholes will be found in the lobbying reform bill?
2006-04-08
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 8)
- Second: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Mo Rocca Total Score: 8 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 3)
Carl Kasell's Countdown; Opening Panel Round; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about Tom DeLay; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time?; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: how will Katie Couric prove to the world that she's ready for evening news?
2006-04-15
- First: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Tom Bodett Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Adam Felber Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about the makeup-laden rock band KISS; Not My Job about Britain's Queen Elizabeth II; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will Silvio Berlusconi do with all his free time?
After Carl announced that Kyrie O'Connor had won the Lightning Fill In The Blank, Kyrie stated that she doesn't think she has both won and beaten Adam before. In fact, Kyrie had done so three times prior to that show: 2005-02-19, 2005-06-04 and 2005-12-24.
2006-04-22
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Aamer Haleem Total Score: 8 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 3)
Carl Kasell's Countdown; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about a new reality TV program based on real life; Not My Job about the 100th Anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the next chapter in Tom Cruise's career meltdown?
Aamer Haleem used his "default" answers of "Herpes" and "Boutros Boutros-Ghali" during the panelist rounds and the Lightning Fill In The Blank segment. Paula tried to plead with Roy Blount, Jr. to punt it so that Paula would win; in which, Roy responded with "I will not fall off of the cross", which was what Aamer tried to get Carl and Peter to accept as a correct answer during his round of Lightning Fill In The Blank.
2006-04-29
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second Tied: Adam Felber Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second Tied: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Carl Kasell's Way Back Machine; Opening Panel Round; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about famous apologies; Panel Round #2; Bluff the Listener about new products for your kids; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will "The Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown find hidden in the new portrait of President Clinton?
NPR titled the first segment as "Carl Kasell's Way Back Machine" instead of using the more common spelling of "Wayback Machine".