Show Details: September 2012
2012-09-01
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! end of summer special, featuring favorite Wait Wait moments, including questions about IKEA and when science fiction meets science non-fiction
2012-09-08
Legendary AnchormanGuest: Bill Kurtis
- First: Tom Bodett Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Jessi Klein Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about creative engagement proposals, Not My Job about Donnie Raitt, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be this election's October Surprise be?
Tom Bodett snapped Paula Poundstone's six game streak of coming in first after the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round.
2012-09-15
Legendary AnchormanGuest: Bill Kurtis
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: P.J. O'Rourke Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about people recycling things that we don't want recycled, Not My Job about things that rhyme with thrones, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next YouTube video to cause a riot?
2012-09-22
- First: Mo Rocca Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Faith Salie Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about things what we thought to have been true but aren't, Not My Job about viral marketing campaigns gone awry, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next hidden video surprise?
In the edited version of the show, only six of Mo Rocca's questions was played even though he had answered seven questions correct.
2012-09-29
- First Tied: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- First Tied: Adam Felber Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- First Tied: Brian Babylon Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about organizations forced to state the obvious, Not My Job about the Ig Nobel awards, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the big surprise at the first Presidential debate?
Another show that ended in a three-way tie. The last three-way tie happened on 2012-08-18, in which all three panelists also had 14 points each.