Show Details: January 2009
2009-01-03
- Leonard Nimoy Score: 1
- George McGovern Score: 0
- Garrison Keillor Score: 1
- Joseph "Moose" Skowron Jr. Score: 1
- Jimmy Carter (The Blind Boys of Alabama) Score: 1
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring several Not My Job favorites
2009-01-10
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                            Rank:
                            First Tied:
                        
                        Adam Felber
                        
                            Total: 13
                        
                        Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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                            Rank:
                            First Tied:
                        
                        Mo Rocca
                        
                            Total: 13
                        
                        Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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                            Rank:
                            Third:
                        
                        Roxanne Roberts
                        
                            Total: 12
                        
                        Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
- Campbell Brown Score: 2
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
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                            Rank:
                            First Tied:
                        
                        Amy Dickinson
                        
                            Total: 15
                        
                        Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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                            Rank:
                            First Tied:
                        
                        Charlie Pierce
                        
                            Total: 15
                        
                        Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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                            Rank:
                            Third:
                        
                        Paula Poundstone
                        
                            Total: 7
                        
                        Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 2
- Burt Bacharach Score: 1
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
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                            Rank:
                            First:
                        
                        Tom Bodett
                        
                            Total: 17
                        
                        Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 7
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                            Rank:
                            Second:
                        
                        Kyrie O'Connor
                        
                            Total: 14
                        
                        Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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                            Rank:
                            Third:
                        
                        P.J. O'Rourke
                        
                            Total: 13
                        
                        Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
- Cindi Leive Score: 3
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
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                            Rank:
                            First:
                        
                        Alison Stewart
                        
                            Total: 14
                        
                        Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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                            Rank:
                            Second:
                        
                        Paul Provenza
                        
                            Total: 13
                        
                        Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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                            Rank:
                            Third:
                        
                        Roy Blount, Jr.
                        
                            Total: 9
                        
                        Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
- Carrie Fisher Score: 1
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 segment, 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?".