Show Details: May 2007
2007-05-05
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                            Rank:
                            First:
                        
                        Tom Bodett
                        
                            Total: 14
                        
                        Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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                            Rank:
                            Second:
                        
                        Charlie Pierce
                        
                            Total: 13
                        
                        Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 6
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                            Third:
                        
                        Paula Poundstone
                        
                            Total: 12
                        
                        Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
- Ted Koppel Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about the box office flop "Sahara" from a "Los Angeles Times" article about the failed production; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will happen to Queen Elizabeth during her trip to the United States?
The first caller is Jimmy Jellinek, the editor-in-chief of Maxim.
2007-05-12
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                            Rank:
                            First:
                        
                        Roxanne Roberts
                        
                            Total: 15
                        
                        Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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                            Rank:
                            Second:
                        
                        Roy Blount, Jr.
                        
                            Total: 9
                        
                        Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
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                            Rank:
                            Third:
                        
                        Paul Provenza
                        
                            Total: 8
                        
                        Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 3
- Nanci Griffith Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about odd pieces of history in the news; Not My Job about future Hall of Fame pitcher, Roger Clemens; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will new French President Nicolas Sarkozy do to make France more like the USA?
2007-05-19
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                            Rank:
                            First:
                        
                        Adam Felber
                        
                            Total: 13
                        
                        Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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                            Rank:
                            Second:
                        
                        Charlie Pierce
                        
                            Total: 12
                        
                        Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
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                            Rank:
                            Third:
                        
                        Kyrie O'Connor
                        
                            Total: 11
                        
                        Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Robert Lutz Score: 0
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about media companies doing whatever they can to stay on top; Not My Job about people you wouldn't say are "People persons"; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Panelist Predictions: what happened during Tony Blair's sleepover at the White House?
2007-05-26
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                            Rank:
                            First:
                        
                        Mo Rocca
                        
                            Total: 14
                        
                        Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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                            Rank:
                            Second:
                        
                        Angela Nissel
                        
                            Total: 12
                        
                        Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
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                            Rank:
                            Third:
                        
                        Paula Poundstone
                        
                            Total: 10
                        
                        Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Dennis Kucinich Score: 3
Carl Kasell's Countdown; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about a news story that sounded like a soap opera plot; Not My Job about the life of Bunny Allen: big game hunter extraordinaire; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: after Carl made a gaffe during a newscast this week, what will be Carl's next on-air mistake?
Peter starts the show with Carl Kasell's on-air Freudian Slip by accidentally calling Monica Goodling, "Monica Lewinsky", then quickly correcting himself mid-word