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Show Details: December 2007

2007-12-01

NPR DB ID: 152
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • First: Adam Felber Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
  • Second Tied: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
  • Second Tied: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Correct Roy Blount, Jr.
Description

Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Round #1; Bluff the Listener about old ways fading away; Not My Job about some questionable toys taken from a list compiled by Cracked.com; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: Now that Oprah Winfrey, Barbra Streisand and Fabio have all told us who they are supporting for President, who will be the next celebrity to endorse one of the 2008 presidential candidates?

Notes

During the first Who's Carl This Time? segment, Peter Sagal asked if anyone had followed the meeting between President Bush, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas. Adam Felber responded with "religiously", which led to an audience member booing Adam. This led to a great reaction from the panelists, with Adam retorting "What? ... Booed that early" and Amy Dickinson cracking up.

2007-12-08

NPR DB ID: 153
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • First: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
  • Second: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
  • Third: Mo Rocca Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Chosen Mo Rocca
Correct Mo Rocca
Description

Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Round #1; Bluff the Listener about the world's favorite marsupial — the kangaroo and one way it's making our lives better; Not My Job about the holiday staple "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer"; Panel Round #2: Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!: An Inconvenient News Quiz; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: which presidential candidate will next reveal a secret from kindergarten?

Notes

Dana Perino is the second White House Press Secretary from the George W. Bush Administration to appear on the show after Tony Snow.

2007-12-15

NPR DB ID: 154
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • First: Tom Bodett Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
  • Second: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 4)
  • Third: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 8 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 2)
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Chosen Amy Dickinson
Correct Amy Dickinson
Description

Who's Carl This Time?; Panel Round #1; Bluff the Listener about unexpected medical warnings; Not My Job about eccentric British Lords, taken from an article in "Vanity Fair"; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what big changes will Major League Baseball make to clean itself up after the release of the Mitchell report on steroids?

Notes

During the Listener Limerick Challenge segment, one of the answers dealt with a computer program that interacts with people on Russian dating/romance sites. Upon hearing that, Amy twice cried out "No!" Paula had a lot of fun and ranted about the "love chat" bit. After Carl stated that the listener had correctly completed the three limericks, Paula exclaimed, "Brent was a genius!"

2007-12-22

NPR DB ID: 155
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
  • Second: Adam Felber Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
  • Third: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Correct Charlie Pierce
Description

Carl Kasell's Countdown; Panel Round #1; Bluff the Listener about getting into trouble in the workplace; Not My Job about the worst business decisions of 2007, from an article in "Fortune" magazine; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time?; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the New Year's resolution of one of this year's newsmakers?

2007-12-29

Best Of NPR DB ID: 156
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Description

Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring several Not My Job favorites