Show Details: September 2011
2011-09-03
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Alonzo Bodden Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about American heroes, Not My Job about Soul Train, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what big news will come out of President Barack Obama's jobs speech?
All three of the panelists (and the Not My Job guest) have a first initial of "A"; which may just be coincidence considering there is question whether or not the nation's debt rating may not be "AAA" for too long.
2011-09-10
- First Tied: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- First Tied: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about three athletes having problems, Not My Job about Ponzi schemes, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: how will the US Postal Service save itself?
Just so Henry Winkler would get to do the Fonzie's trademark "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaay", all of the correct answers in the Not My Job were "A".
2011-09-17
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 19 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 8)
- Second: Peter Grosz Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about the unusual origins of what are common items, Not My Job about obscure protests, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: where will authorities find the $2 billion dollars UBS lost to a rogue trader?
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! came back to Portland, Oregon for the third time. I attended the show and re-outed myself as the Wait Wait Stats Page maintainer during the post-show Q&A session.
2011-09-24
- First Tied: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- First Tied: Brian Babylon Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Jessi Klein Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about occupational hazards, Not My Job about Nicholas Cage, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next apology to come from a major company?
This show's panel consists of three comedians.