Show Details: November 2008
2008-11-01
- First: Paul Provenza Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Third: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 8 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 3)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about new approaches in responding to emergencies, Not My Job about the history of Microsoft, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: how will Barack Obama spend his campaign cash?
2008-11-08
- First: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Mo Rocca Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about robocalls gone awry, Not My Job about Bill O'Reilly's recent memoir, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what big surprise will come out of the first 100 days of the Obama administration?
Carl stated that Amy needed to answer 5 questions correctly to tie or 6 to win outright after announcing Charlie's score of 12. Amy started the round with 4 points, which meant that she only needed to answer 4 questions correctly to tie or 5 questions to win.
2008-11-15
- First Tied: P.J. O'Rourke Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- First Tied: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Third: Tom Bodett Total Score: 7 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 3)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about the Internet letting us down, Not My Job about ways kids are wasting their time, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will be the first line of President Bush's memoir?
2008-11-22
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Adam Felber Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 3)
Carl Kasell's Countdown, Bluff The Listener about brilliant new ways to lose weight, Not My Job about Mickey Mouse (who is celebrating his 80th birthday), Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: how will the American auto industry save itself?
When Peter Sagal was talking about the Detroit Big Three going to DC to testify, Peter accidentally said "FUV" instead of "SUV". Hilarity ensued.
2008-11-29
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring several Not My Job favorites