Show Details: October 2009
2009-10-03
- First: Charlie Pierce 15 (3 / 6)
- Second: Kyrie O'Connor 13 (1 / 6)
- Third: P.J. O'Rourke 9 (3 / 3)
This episode is sponsored by the letters: W, T and F.
One of P.J. O'Rourke's panelist question and answer is identical to one that guest host Luke Burbank asked panelist Aamer Haleem (2006-08-12), regarding hungry men preferring "generous sized young lady". Both instances made references to Bill Clinton's scandal with Monica Lewinsky, but did not lead to any comments about such women carrying trays of food this time around.
2009-10-10
- First: Tom Bodett 16 (2 / 7)
- Second Tied: Charlie Pierce 14 (4 / 5)
- Second Tied: Roxanne Roberts 14 (2 / 6)
2009-10-17
- First: Mo Rocca 16 (2 / 7)
- Second: Roy Blount, Jr. 15 (3 / 6)
- Third: Faith Salie 14 (2 / 6)
The second limerick during the Listener Limerick Challenge called the two slashes in a URL "backslashes". Technically, the two slashes in a URI/URL are actually forward slashes.
While Mo Rocca was trying to come up with an answer for Mo's last Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question for the round, Peter interrupted Mo and told Faith Salie that "this might go on for a while".
2009-10-24
- First: Paula Poundstone 13 (3 / 5)
- Second: Adam Felber 12 (2 / 5)
- Third: Mo Rocca 8 (2 / 3)
2009-10-31
- First: Amy Dickinson 17 (3 / 7)
- Second: Luke Burbank 16 (2 / 7)
- Third: Julia Sweeney 11 (3 / 4)
Luke Burbank returns!!!
During the second panelist round, while Peter was asking Julia Sweeney's second question of the round, Julia yelled out "No! Don't ask me a sports thing!".