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Show Details: July 2007

2007-07-07

Best Of NPR DB ID: 1
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Description

Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring several show favorite Not My Job guests from 2007

2007-07-14

NPR DB ID: 80
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • First: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
  • Second: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
  • Third: Paul Provenza Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Chosen Paul Provenza
Correct Kyrie O'Connor
Description

Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Listener Limerick Challenge; Not My Job about the Philadelphia Phillies, who by losing 10,000 games have come the losing-est franchise in all of sports; Panel Round #2: Wait Wait On The Trail; Bluff the Listener about gullible people; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be the first of 18 benchmarks achieved by the Iraqi government?

2007-07-21

NPR DB ID: 133
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • First: Adam Felber Total Score: 19 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 8)
  • Second: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
  • Third: Roy Blount, Jr. 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?; Opening Panel Round; Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about questions specifically created to not be about Scooter Libby; Panel Round #2; Bluff the Listener about unusual summer camps; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: now that the final Harry Potter book has arrived, what will be the next fantasy series to consume popular culture?

Notes

After Patrick Fitzgerald was not able to answer two or more Not My Job questions correctly, an "appeal" was filed and Patrick won the game even with only one correct answer.

2007-07-28

NPR DB ID: 134
Host Guest: Luke Burbank
Scorekeeper Carl Kasell
Panelists
  • First: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
  • Second: Mo Rocca Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
  • Third: Tom Bodett Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 3)
Not My Job Guest(s)
Bluff
#1
Chosen Tom Bodett
Correct Tom Bodett
Description

Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about someone who turned out not to be as tough as once thought; Not My Job about "World Weekly News" now that the tabloid is stopping publication; Panel Round #2; And You Can Quote Me On That; Lighthing Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: now that obesity has been found to be contagious, what will be the next thing to be catching?

Notes

Limited audience chanting of "Luuuuuuke", in which Luke retorts that for each second of chanting would be one less second that Mo Rocca can make jokes. Tom Bodett finished his Bluff the Listener story with his famous "We'll leave the light on for you" tagline from his Motel 6 adverts.