Show Details: 2006
2006-01-07
- Maj. Robert Bateman Score: 1 *
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! including: singing mice, "666"/"616" introduction debacle, Not My Job with Maj. Robert Bateman, Paula Poundstone's first win
2006-01-14
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Rank:
First:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
P.J. O'Rourke
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 8
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 3
- Andrei Codrescu Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about new workplace vocabulary; Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about clever cheaters who nearly got away with their schemes; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what caused Judge Samuel Alito's wife to cry during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings?
Listener, an English teacher at "Lick-Wilmerding High School", has problem with rhymes and limericks, while Paula has fun with the name "Lick-Wilmerding" and yells "... POINT LICK-WILMERDING!!!". Interestingly, the answer for the first limerick was "dumb".
2006-01-21
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 17
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Kyrie O'Connor
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Penn Jillette Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about Benjamin Franklin; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will NASA find on Pluto with the New Horizon spacecraft?
2006-01-28
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 18
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Second:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Third:
Mo Rocca
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Tim Meadows Score: 0
Carl Kasell's Countdown; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about clothing that can hurt you; Not My Job about "Worst Business Moments of 2005" by "Business 2.0" magazine; Panel Round #2; Panel Round #3; Who's Carl This Time?; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will turn up in the those supposed photographs with George W. Bush and Jack Abramoff?
The first show to be made available as a podcast.
2006-02-04
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Tom Bodett
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
- Gary Hart Score: 2
Who's Korva This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about odd corporate synergy; Not My Job about Jack Abramoff's short career as a movie producer; Panel Round #2; Who's Korva This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the reaction from the Human-Animal-Hybrid-American Community to President Bush's State of the Union Address?
When the listener contestant for the Bluff the Listener segment mentioned that she was playing the game as a wish list/gift for someone, the discussion devolved from there.
Peter messes up the retired Senator Gary Hart's introduction by stating Gary Hart served 8 years in the Senate instead of 12 years, as he forgot that each term is 6 years and not 4. One of Gary's retorts is "wait, wait... don't tell me." Peter also got under Gary's skin by calling him a "wise old man" instead of a "wise man".
The listener contestant for the second Who's Korva This Time? segment said that one of his boy-lesque names is "Brandon Vandermuffin".
2006-02-11
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 18
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 8
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Rank:
Second:
Kyrie O'Connor
Total: 17
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Third:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
- Sally Jesse Raphael Score: 0
Who's Korva This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about unusual new kids' shows; Not My Job about top excuses, offered by British motorists, to explain their little roadway mishaps; Panel Round #2; Korva Coleman's Countdown; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what cartoon character will be the subject of a worldwide scandal?
After Sally Jesse Raphael bombed the Not My Job segment, Sally said that she's "the Paula Poundstone of (inaudible)".
Peter somewhat insults Kyrie stating that some thinking is required as it is an NPR show during Panel Round #2.
2006-02-18
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Rank:
First:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 17
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Second:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Amy Dickinson
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
- Corky Siegel Score: 2
Carl Kasell's Countdown; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about not-so-wonderful ancient wonders; Not My Job about the history of Kellogg's; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time?; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be Dick Cheney's next accident?
2006-02-25
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Mo Rocca
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 5
- Ken Jennings Score: 3
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Winter Olympics Personals; Not My Job with three questions chosen specifically to confound a world champion quizmaster; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: how will the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver drum up better TV ratings than the current games in Turin?
After Adam won the Lightning Fill In The Blank, Paula said "There it is... Adam Felber: the Ken Jennings of the panel; going into his first night."
2006-03-04
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Rank:
First Tied:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
First Tied:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Adam Felber
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
- Peggy Noonan Score: 0
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about meat in the news; Not My Job about Anna Nicole Smith; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: which upcoming case will make the Supreme Court forget Anna Nicole Smith?
2006-03-11
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 20
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 8
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Rank:
Second:
Kyrie O'Connor
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Third:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 7
- Scott Simon Score: 1
A New Horoscope Game: The Stars Are Not In Your Favor; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about incongruous pairings of spokespeople and product; Not My Job about Thomas Kinkade; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time?; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what movie will win the Best Picture Oscar for 2006?
2006-03-18
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 19
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 8
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Rank:
Second:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Elliott Gould Score: 1
Carl Kasell's Countdown; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about something that could be called a Frat Boy's Dream Come True; Not My Job about theories about the afterlife; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time?; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will Mike Wallace do with all his spare time?
The listener contestant for the first Who's Carl This Time? segment was a bit picky with how "Salisbury" is pronounced. The same listener was a bit miffed that she had to say "Slobodan Milosevic", stating that it "doesn't roll off of the Southern tongue". She did say it properly nonetheless. Paula Poundstone thought that Andrew Jackson was on the $10 instead of the $20.
The listener contestant for the Bluff the Listener segment is the co-owner of Portland's Three Square Grill and Picklopolis.
2006-03-25
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Rank:
First Tied:
Amy Dickinson
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
First Tied:
Mo Rocca
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
- Fran Lebowitz Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about new advances in personal security; Not My Job about novelist Dan Brown; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: who President Bush will bring in to the White House to revitalize his second term?
When the listener contestant for the Who's Carl This Time? segment couldn't figure out the answer to a question about Condoleezza Rice and asked for a hint, Mo Rocca sang "Blank-a-roni, the Secretary of State" (in tune of "Rice-a-Roni, A San Francisco Treat!"). Huge kudos to @Ojoya for tracking this one down for me!
During the Listener Limerick Challenge segment when Peter was discussing the soccer/football matches between Muslims and LGBTs, Mo sang "everybody fatwah" to the tune of "Everybody Dance Now".
2006-04-01
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Rank:
First:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
P.J. O'Rourke
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
- Rusty DeWees Score: 2
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
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 18
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 8
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Rank:
Second:
Amy Dickinson
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Mo Rocca
Total: 8
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 3
- Sarah Silverman Score: 2
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
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Rank:
First:
Kyrie O'Connor
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Second:
Tom Bodett
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Adam Felber
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
- Anne Lamott Score: 1
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
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Rank:
First:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 18
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Second:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Aamer Haleem
Total: 8
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 3
- Henry Rollins Score: 2
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
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Adam Felber
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
- Billy Connolly Score: 1
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".
2006-05-06
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 7
-
Rank:
Second:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
-
Rank:
Third:
Tom Bodett
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Anthony Williams Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about jokes influencing the real world; Not My Job about Turkmenistan dictator Sardar Saparmurat Turkmenbashi; Panel Round #2; Carl Kasell's Lonely-Hearts Club; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will we learn President Bush was saying when he tried to sing the "Star Spangled Banner" in Spanish?
2006-05-13
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 17
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 7
-
Rank:
Second:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
-
Rank:
Third:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 6
- Tom Hanks Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Not My Job about some of Hollywood's biggest louts; Listener Limerick Challenge; Carl Kasell's Countdown; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will the NSA hear if they decide to start checking out people's phone calls?
Tom Hanks erupts at Peter when he misses the first question, Paula's knowledge of food vending in court cracks up the group
2006-05-20
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Rank:
First:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Kyrie O'Connor
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
-
Rank:
Second Tied:
Mo Rocca
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
- Elayne Boosler Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about circus acts being applied to real life; Not My Job about the Heimlich maneuver; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: where will Jimmy Hoffa turn up?
Fish puns
2006-05-27
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Rank:
First:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 18
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 7
-
Rank:
Second:
Adam Felber
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
-
Rank:
Third:
P.J. O'Rourke
Total: 7
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 3
- Steven Cohen Score: 0
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about this summer's newest exercise craze; Not My Job about cheating in sports; Panel Round #2; Carl Kasell's Cineplex of Wonders; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what super powers will we find out televangelist Pat Robertson possesses?
2006-06-03
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Rank:
First:
Tom Bodett
Total: 18
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 8
-
Rank:
Second:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
-
Rank:
Third:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
- Craig Ferguson Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about the unexpected side effects of a drought in England; Not My Job about organ grinder Joe Bush; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what does the future hold for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's new baby?
The first listener contestant had a last name of "Walkup", which lead to Peter and the panelists having fun with it; particularly, with Charlie Pierce responding with "yeah, right!". The same listener seemed to have been trying to search for the answer for the 2nd question online and Peter and Sue called the listener out on it. Peter said, in an exaggerated manner, "there's no Googling on Wait Wait!". The other panelists jumped on to poke fun of the (failed) attempt.
The first panelist round question dealt with a Greenpeace press release statement that had a really bad "Mad Lib" like fail.
While Peter Sagal was describing how someone caught Barry Bonds' 715th home run baseball and Peter let out two Freudian slips by calling Barry Bonds' home run baseballs as "his (Bonds') balls" being marked with special holographs and DNA, and said "Barry Bonds' balls".
2006-06-10
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
-
Rank:
Second:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
-
Rank:
Third:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
- Paul Provenza Score: 0
Who's Corey This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about England's crazy Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh; Not My Job about stories of hijinks in men's college athletics; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will we find out is the most liberal rock song?
Interesting coincidence: Paul Provenza's project is for a film version of "Everybody Poops" while all of the Not My Job answers were "B" (or answer "number 2")
2006-06-17
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Rank:
First:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
-
Rank:
Second:
Mo Rocca
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
-
Rank:
Third:
Amy Dickinson
Total: 8
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 3
- Calvin Trillin Score: 2
Who's Corey This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about unusual spokespeople, Not My Job about Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), the longest-serving member of the U.S. Senate; Panel Round #2; Who's Corey This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what management changes will the new leader of al-Qaida in Iraq make?
2006-06-24
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Rank:
First:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
-
Rank:
Second:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
-
Rank:
Third:
Aamer Haleem
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Brian Williams Score: 2
Korva Coleman's Countdown; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about inventive birthday parties in the news; Not My Job about miraculous duct tape; Panel Round #2; Who's Korva This Time?; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: how will the United States stop a North Korean missile?
Jim Lehrer is called "Jimmy-Jimmy Bobo" by a child
2006-07-01
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Rank:
First:
Luke Burbank
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
-
Rank:
Second Tied:
Mo Rocca
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
-
Rank:
Second Tied:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Gwen Ifill Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about new safety devices to save people from themselves; Not My Job about Superman; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: who will be the villain in the next Superman movie?
Another instance where Mo Rocca uses the surname "Bagnoli" in his Bluff the Listener story.
2006-07-08
- Maj. Robert Bateman Score: 1 *
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! including: singing mice, "666"/"616" introduction debacle, Not My Job with Maj. Robert Bateman, Paula Poundstone's first win
2006-07-15
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Rank:
First:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
-
Rank:
Second Tied:
Richard Roeper
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
-
Rank:
Second Tied:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
- Janeane Garofolo Score: 0
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about deep fryers playing an important role in history; Not My Job about the history of the bikini; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will head-butting World Cup star Zinedine Zidane do next?
Janeane Garofalo uses SAT tips to answer the Not My Job questions and bombs humorously
2006-07-22
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Rank:
First:
Kyrie O'Connor
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 7
-
Rank:
Second:
Mo Rocca
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
-
Rank:
Third:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
- Howard "Humpy" Wheeler Score: 0
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about competitive eating; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: who will be the next person caught in front of a live microphone?
Regarding NPR's not censoring President Bush's swearing, Mo called NPR as "National Potty-Mouth Radio"
2006-07-29
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Rank:
First:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 19
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 8
-
Rank:
Second:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
-
Rank:
Third:
Luke Burbank
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 5
- Romany Malco Score: 0
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about tried and true toys getting 21st century makeovers; Not My Job about complaint to New York City mayors from a collection of letters in the exhibit, "The New York Museum of Complaint"; Panel Round #2; Panel Round #3; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will we learn the Iraqi premier really wanted to say to Congress?
The show page on NPR.org lists two segments named "Panel Round Two" between "Not My Job" and "Who's Carl Two".
During the third panelist round, Roxanne Roberts made a pun with "Kurds and Whey" regarding Kurdish state in Iraq.
After Roxanne answered all of her Lightning Fill In The Blank questions correctly, including a question about inflatable body in a car's glove box, Peter noted that Luke Burbank has been deflated and can be put back into the glove compartment. Luke's deflated response was "Thanks Peter, that's totally what I needed."
2006-08-05
- Barack Obama Score: 2
- Tom Hanks Score: 2
- Terry Gross Score: 2
- Ken Jennings Score: 3
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring several Not My Job favorites
2006-08-12
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 18
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 7
-
Rank:
Second:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
-
Rank:
Third:
Aamer Haleem
Total: 7
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 3
- Tommy Chong Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about someone trying to profit from Mel Gibson's recent drunken tirade; Not My Job about writer/director M. Night Shyamalan; Panel Round #2; Panel Round #3; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: now that Raúl Castro has taken over from his brother Fidel in Cuba, what changes will he make?
Tradition of audience chanting "Luuuuuuke" begins, with Aamer explaining that the audience was not boo-ing Luke; Aamer comically crossed the line about large women carrying trays of food when discussing that a study showed that hungry men tended to favor more "curvaceous" women and Sue mentioned that hungry men should go after people carrying trays of food; Carl used the word "fart" in one of the Listener Limericks.
One of the panelist questions was about a Chorizo sausage mascot called "El Picante", who was let go after one game to be "re-seasoned" but could be interpreted as it having a "temporary work visa", Charlie jokingly said that it was really fast, but Luke made a slight about it being able to swim; which lead to the audience "boo-ing" Luke, but Luke commenting that all he could hear was "Luke".
2006-08-19
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Rank:
First:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
-
Rank:
Second Tied:
Tom Bodett
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Soledad O'Brien Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about good intentions gone awry in the business world; Not My Job about questions taken from an interview with the wife of former California congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: based on the new definition, what will be the next object to be named a planet?
Continuation of audience chanting "Luuuuuuke", in which Paula retorts Luke's comment of "...explaining that's people saying my name, not boo-ing" with "It's good that you think that... he's got an indomitable spirit, doesn't he? Little fella."; Paula stumbles on a question regarding NPR by not knowing who "Stamberg" is; the panelists and a listener ended up turning the beginning of Who's Carl This Time? #2 into "Beauty Chat" with more chanting of "Luuuuuuke".
Paula answered a Lightning Fill In The Blank question about a certain computer manufacturer's "exploding" laptop, which was mentioned in Who's Carl This Time?, Round II by Tom Bodett, which Paula enthusiastically answered with "Dell!!!"; in the same round, Paula was asked about Chicagoan's last chance to eat a certain food before a ban takes effect with "Ahh, heroin!", in which hilarity ensued.
2006-08-26
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 7
-
Rank:
Second Tied:
Amy Dickinson
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
-
Rank:
Second Tied:
Adam Felber
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Rita Rudner Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about name recognition in the news; Not My Job about blue jeans; Panel Round #2; Panel Round #3; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the new mnemonic device that kids will use to remember the order of the planets?
Continuation of audience chanting "Luuuuuuke" with Luke retorting that half the people would complete it with "I'm your father". Charlie Pierce's Bluff the Listener refers to the "Dingoes Ate My Baby".
2006-09-02
- 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.
2006-09-09
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Rank:
First:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
-
Rank:
Second Tied:
Amy Dickinson
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 5
- Alan Alda Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about new innovations in suburbia; Not My Job about the Stanford University marching band and their crazy and sometimes offensive on-field routines; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will Katie Couric use as her sign off on the CBS Evening News?
2006-09-16
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Rank:
First:
Tom Bodett
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Second:
Kyrie O'Connor
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Mo Rocca
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
- Isaac Mizrahi Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about protests not going as planned; Not My Job about questions specifically chosen to confound a fashion designer; Panel Round #2; Carl Kasell's Countdown; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: how will political pundit Tucker Carlson rebound after his disastrous appearance on "Dancing with the Stars"?
Four words for Panel Round #2: Carl Kasell on helium
2006-09-23
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Rank:
First:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Paul Provenza
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Joy Behar Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about forgotten icons of the 1980s who reappeared in this week's news; Not My Job about the new book "Presidential Doodles"; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: how will President Bush get back at Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez for calling him the devil?
During Panel Round #2, Peter and the panelists had fun with George Allen's initial insistence that he is not Jewish, even though he is
2006-09-30
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Rank:
First:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Tom Bodett
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
- Kevin Clash and Elmo Score: 2
"Wait Wait" Television; Opening Panel Round; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about three stories about Bill O'Reilly taken from an article in this month's "GQ"; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time?; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: where will President Bill Clinton next lose his temper and why?
The listener for the Listener Limerick Challenge segment seemed either impatient or pressed for time and didn't want the guys to dilly dally too much and told the guys to move on to the next limerick twice.
2006-10-07
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Rank:
First:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Tom Bodett
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Kyrie O'Connor
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
- Ken Jennings Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about new things to help people stay happily married; Not My Job rematch against Ken Jennings; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the title of Bob Woodward's next book?
2006-10-14
- Brian Williams Score: 2
- Janeane Garofolo Score: 0
- Anne Lamott Score: 1
- Penn Jillette Score: 1
- Alan Alda Score: 2
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring several Not My Job favorites
2006-10-21
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Rank:
First:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Mo Rocca
Total: 8
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 3
- Dave Barry Score: 2
An Internet Destination Called Carlslist; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about clichés come to life; Not My Job about various government web sites designed for children; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the fate of the 300 millionth American?
The show page on NPR.org does not list a Panelist Predictions segment. Instead, it is included with the Lightning Fill In The Blank segment.
2006-10-28
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Rank:
First:
Tom Bodett
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Amy Dickinson
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Angela Nissel
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
- Tom Bergeron Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about toys that probably won't be under the tree this Christmas; Not My Job about Washington Wizards basketball start Gilbert Arenas; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will replace "Stay the Course" to describe the Bush administration's policy in Iraq?
2006-11-04
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Rank:
First Tied:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
-
Rank:
First Tied:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
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Rank:
First Tied:
P.J. O'Rourke
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
- Jimmy Wales Score: 0
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
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Rank:
First:
Kyrie O'Connor
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
-
Rank:
Second Tied:
Aamer Haleem
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Tom Bodett
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
- Andy Borowitz Score: 0
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
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Rank:
First:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 18
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Second:
Paul Provenza
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 5
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 2
- Harry Shearer Score: 3
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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N/A
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".
2006-12-02
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 7
-
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
-
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
-
Rank:
Second:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
-
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.