Show Details: April 2012
2012-04-07
- First Tied: Adam Felber Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- First Tied: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about ways plants are like humans, Not My Job about James Cameron's movie "The Titanic", Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next surprise ruling from the US Supreme Court?
2012-04-14
- First: Alonzo Bodden Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second Tied: Jessi Klein Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second Tied: Mo Rocca Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about life before the Internet, Not My Job about people who really know how to cheat, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: how will Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen offend residents of Miami next time?
Another uncommon instance in which all three panelists answered six Lightning Fill In The Blank questions correctly. The last three times that this has happened have been on 2011-06-11, 2010-06-04 and 2009-09-12.
2012-04-21
- Jack Gantos 2
- Tom Robbins 2
- Susan Orlean 3
- Mary Roach 1
- Carl Hiassen 2
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring favorite authors recently featured as Not My Job guests
2012-04-28
- First: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 8)
- Second Tied: Amy Dickinson Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second Tied: Tom Bodett Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about unfortunate celebrity endorsements, Not My Job about people who play cricket, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will Newt Gingrich do now that he is no longer running for president?
After Paula answered all eight Lightning Fill In The Blank questions correctly, Peter stated "that may not have ever happened before". Actually, it has. The last time that Paula answered all eight correctly was on 2009-11-21; in which, Paula also got a total of 18 points and won.