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Show Details: June 2007

2007-06-02

NPR DB ID: 6
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • First: Tom Bodett Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
  • Second: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
  • Third: P.J. O'Rourke Total Score: 8 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 3)
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Chosen Tom Bodett
Correct P.J. O'Rourke
Description

Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Not My Job about treatment centers for celebrities; Panel Round #2; Bluff the Listener about false alarms in the news; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: inspired by Fred Thompson, who will be the next person to jump from TV to presidential politics?

2007-06-09

NPR DB ID: 5
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • First: Adam Felber Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 7)
  • Second: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
  • Third: Paul Provenza Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 5)
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Correct Roxanne Roberts
Description

Carl Kasell's Countdown; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about two great things coming together to become even more awesome; Not My Job about those wacky scientists at the Defense Department and their kooky ideas for military technology, taken from a BBC article; Panel Round #2; Panel Round #3; Who's Carl This Time?; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: how will Scooter Libby get a sentence as short as Paris Hilton's?

2007-06-16

NPR DB ID: 4
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • First: Mo Rocca Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
  • Second: Tom Bodett Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
  • Third: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 7 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 2)
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Chosen Tom Bodett
Correct Mo Rocca
Description

Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about unlikely keepsakes in the news; Not My Job about three questions specifically designed to stump Donny Osmond; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: now that Paris Hilton says she's been given a second chance at life, how will she help humanity?

2007-06-23

NPR DB ID: 3
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • First: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
  • Second Tied: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
  • Second Tied: Luke Burbank Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Chosen Luke Burbank
Correct Charlie Pierce
Description

Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about new illnesses that we never expected to hear about; Not My Job about polite society for a man who is not known for being particularly polite; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will Michael Bloomberg name his party?

Notes

Several members of audience chanted "Luuuuuuke" when Luke was introduced by Peter

2007-06-30

NPR DB ID: 2
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • First: Adam Felber Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
  • Second: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
  • Third: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Correct Roy Blount, Jr.
Description

Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about consultants who are consulting things we didn't know required consulting; Not My Job about one of the CIA's more entertaining documents: an internal study about the cranks who contacted the CIA in the 50s and 60s; Panel Round #2: Wait Wait On The Trail; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the first flaw in Apple's iPhone?

Notes

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! visits Portland, Oregon for the second time. Although Peter Sagal and Carl Kasell said that the show was recorded at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts, the venue was the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.

When Peter asked how well Adam Felber did after answering his set of Lightning Fill In The Blank questions, Carl said that Adam had a total of 16 points. When Peter asked Carl if Amy Dickinson did well enough to win, Carl said that she did not not beat Adam 18 points in order to win. Since Carl said Adam had 16 points right after Adam finished his questions, that is the score that has been recorded.