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Show Details: February 2012

2012-02-04

NPR DB ID: 732
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Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Faith Salie
Correct: Charlie Pierce
Description
Who's Carl This Time?. Bluff the Listener about rosy economic indicators, Not My Job about Up with People, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the big story out of Super Bowl XVLI?

2012-02-11

NPR DB ID: 733
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Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Roxanne Roberts
Correct: Tom Bodett
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about dumb cops, Not My Job about other artists nominated for The Grammys, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: who will come in and finally save the GOP?
Notes

The Bluff the Listener contestant noted that he was calling from his sister's bathroom and that lead to an interesting exchange with Peter and Paula.

Peter had a little bit of trouble with saying "harsher sanctions" during the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round, in which Paula answered the question in the same way that Peter's tongue-tied manner. Peter then said, "I don't know if I'm going to give you that point."

At the end of the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round, everyone was shocked that Tom Bodett beat Roxanne Roberts and I think Tom said something like "that never happens". In fact, Tom has outscored Roxanne three times in 2009. Each time, Roxanne had 14 points while Tom had 18 (2009-03-07), 15 (2009-08-08) and 16 (2009-10-10) points.

2012-02-18

NPR DB ID: 734
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Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Mo Rocca
Correct: Mo Rocca
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Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about new ways to make your wedding unforgettable, Not My Job about things that go very, very slowly, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: who will be the next headline-friendly sports star?
Notes

The audience led Nick Pearson to choose the wrong answer for the third question during the Not My Job round. After Carl said that Nick did not answer enough questions correctly to win, Peter had the audience say "I'm sorry" to Nick all at once.

In the usual Mo Rocca fashion, Mo spent about a minute trying to figure out an answer for one of the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank questions and ended up answering it correctly.

2012-02-25

Best Of Repeat: 2011-08-20 NPR DB ID: 735
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Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring several actors and actresses featured on Not My Job