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Show Details: October 2007

2007-10-06

NPR DB ID: 144
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • First: Adam Felber Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
  • Second Tied: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
  • Second Tied: Mo Rocca Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 6)
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Chosen Adam Felber
Correct Roxanne Roberts
Description

Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Questions #1: Wait Wait On The Trail; Bluff the Listener about politicians trying something to get attention that backfired; Not My Job about the sport of croquet; Panel Questions #2; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: how will children get back at President Bush for vetoing of the children's health insurance bill?

2007-10-13

NPR DB ID: 145
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • First: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
  • Second: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 7)
  • Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
Description

Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Round #1; Bluff the Listener about business strategies that backfired; Not My Job about Celebration, Florida, the suburb created by Disney; Panel Round #2: Wait Wait On The Trail; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: now that the Chrysler strike has ended so positively, who will be the next group to go on strike and why?

2007-10-20

NPR DB ID: 146
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • First: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
  • Second: Paul Provenza Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
  • Third: Tom Bodett Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Chosen Amy Dickinson
Correct Amy Dickinson
Description

Carl Kasell's Countdown; Panel Round #1; Bluff the Listener about innovative strategies in crime prevention; Not My Job about mistakes in journalism taken from the book, "Regret the Error"; Panel Round #2: Wait Wait On The Trail; Who's Carl This Time?; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: now that it has been revealed that Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are cousins, who else will we learn is related?

Notes

Amy Dickinson said that she didn't think she had won before and Peter Sagal was doubtful of that. Amy had tied for first once on the 2006-03-25 show and won outright twice on the 2007-02-03 and 2007-03-10 shows.

2007-10-27

Best Of NPR DB ID: 147
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Description

Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! where Peter Sagal, Carl Kasell, Roxanne Roberts, Tom Bodett, Paula Poundstone, Charlie Pierce and Kyrie O'Connor review their favorite moments from the past ten years