Show Details: October 2007
2007-10-06
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                            Rank:
                            First:
                        
                        Adam Felber
                        
                            Total: 14
                        
                        Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 5
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                            Rank:
                            Second Tied:
                        
                        Roxanne Roberts
                        
                            Total: 13
                        
                        Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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                            Rank:
                            Second Tied:
                        
                        Mo Rocca
                        
                            Total: 13
                        
                        Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 6
- Jeff Garlin Score: 1
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
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                            Rank:
                            First:
                        
                        Paula Poundstone
                        
                            Total: 16
                        
                        Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 6
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                            Rank:
                            Second:
                        
                        Charlie Pierce
                        
                            Total: 15
                        
                        Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 7
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                            Rank:
                            Third:
                        
                        Roy Blount, Jr.
                        
                            Total: 14
                        
                        Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
- Anne Garrels Score: 1
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
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                            Rank:
                            First:
                        
                        Amy Dickinson
                        
                            Total: 15
                        
                        Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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                            Rank:
                            Second:
                        
                        Paul Provenza
                        
                            Total: 12
                        
                        Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
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                            Rank:
                            Third:
                        
                        Tom Bodett
                        
                            Total: 10
                        
                        Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Stephen Colbert Score: 2
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?
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
- Elizabeth Edwards Score: 2
- Stephen Breyer Score: 0
- Al Michaels Score: 2
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