2012-04-28

Show Details

NPR DB ID: 744

Location Chase Auditorium (Chicago, Illinois)

Host Peter Sagal

Scorekeeper Carl Kasell

Panelists

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)

Not My Job Guest(s)

Barry Sonnenfeld 2

Bluff

Chosen Tom Bodett

Chosen Paula Poundstone

Description

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?

Notes

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.