Show Details: January 2009
2009-01-03
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring several Not My Job favorites
2009-01-10
- First Tied: Adam Felber Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- First Tied: Mo Rocca Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about shortcuts to success, Not My Job about Dennis Rodman, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what advice did Barack Obama get with a private meeting with the four previous Presidents?
2009-01-17
- First Tied: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- First Tied: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 7 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 2)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about people spending 26 years to reach a goal, Not My Job about the history of inaugural balls, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be President Bush's next job?
2009-01-24
- First: Tom Bodett Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: P.J. O'Rourke Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time? Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about mixed martial arts, Bluff the Listener about how a member of the Spears family is causing havoc in the world, Panelist Predictions: what was in the note that former President Bush left for President Obama?
2009-01-31
- First: Alison Stewart Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Paul Provenza Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 3)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about people not letting anything get in their way while carrying out their routines, Not My Job about Ronald Reagan's Star Wars missile defense program, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will Rob Blagojevich do now that he is no longer the governor of Illinois?
During the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round, Roy Blount Jr. was asked which science fiction series did Gene Roddenberry create and Majel Barrett was in, Roy answered "Star Wars" in which Peter said that the answer was correct. In fact, the correct answer is Star Trek, which Carl corrected when stating Roy's score. Peter then asked if Carl was a dork, to which Carl sheepishly replied, "I guess?".