Show Details: January 2008
2008-01-05
- First: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second Tied: Adam Felber Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second Tied: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 6)
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about strange patents and inventions, Bluff the Listener about NASA scandals, Panelist Predictions: what will presidential letters from the future contain?
2008-01-12
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Tom Bodett Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about unique recycling methods, Not My Job with questions from 1998 (the first year Wait Wait was on the air), Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will be Hillary Clinton's next display of human emotions?
2008-01-19
- First: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- 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)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about plagiarism reported by the news, Not My Job about the love relationship between Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich as reported by the Washington Post, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what the UFO that people in Texas saw really is?
On the topic of men lying during the Listener Limerick Challenge, Roy Blount, Jr. told an anecdote about marriage counseling. This lead to Kyrie to start laughing uncontrollably and Peter retorting with "been in counseling, Kyrie?"
2008-01-26
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second: Paul Provenza Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about unexpected labor unrest, Not My Job about the founder of the Wham-O toy company, Richard Knerr, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: how will the Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, stimulate the ailing economy?