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Show Details: May 2007

2007-05-05

NPR DB ID: 10
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • First: Tom Bodett Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
  • Second: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 6)
  • Third: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Not My Job Guest(s)
Description

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?

Notes

The first caller is Jimmy Jellinek, the editor-in-chief of Maxim.

2007-05-12

NPR DB ID: 9
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
  • Second: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 3)
  • Third: Paul Provenza Total Score: 8 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 3)
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Correct Paul Provenza
Description

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

NPR DB ID: 8
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • First: Adam Felber Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
  • Second: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
  • Third: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Correct Kyrie O'Connor
Description

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

NPR DB ID: 7
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • First: Mo Rocca Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
  • Second: Angela Nissel Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 4)
  • Third: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Chosen Angela Nissel
Correct Mo Rocca
Description

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?

Notes

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