Show Details: January 2008
2008-01-05
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Rank:
First:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 17
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Adam Felber
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 6
- Linda Ronstadt Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Not My Job about strange, but real, patents in recent years; Panel Round #2; Bluff the Listener about scandals from NASA's storied history; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be in the letters that future presidents will send?
2008-01-12
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Amy Dickinson
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Tom Bodett
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Paul Begala Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Bluff the Listener about innovative and surprising ways to recycle; Not My Job with questions taken from the "Wait Wait" archives during our first year on the air; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: how Hillary Clinton will next display human emotion on the campaign trail?
2008-01-19
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Rank:
First:
Kyrie O'Connor
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Mo Rocca
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
- Brad Bird Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round: Wait Wait On The Trail; Bluff the Listener about plagiarism in the news; Not My Job about the love affair between Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich, taken from a "Washington Post" article about their courtship and marriage; Panel Round #2; Listener Limerick Challenge; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will the UFO that people in Texas saw this week turn out to be?
On the topic of men lying during the Listener Limerick Challenge, Roy Blount, Jr. told an anecdote about marriage counseling. This lead to Kyrie O'Connor to start laughing uncontrollably and Peter Sagal retorting with "been in counseling, Kyrie?"
2008-01-26
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Paul Provenza
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 4
- Melissa Etheridge Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round: Wait Wait On The Trail; Bluff the Listener about unexpected labor unrest in the news; Not My Job about Richard Knerr, the founder of the Wham-O Toy Company, maker of the Hula Hoop and the Frisbee; Panel Round #2; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: how will the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke stimulate the economy?