Show Details: October 2013
2013-10-05
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Maz Jobrani Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about how "Sex and The City" still holds influence today, Not My Job about the sport of partridge shooting, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what are the unexpected benefits of the government shutdown?
Maz Jobrani answered six Lightning Fill In The Blank questions correctly (including the last one in which Maz's answer of "(David) Cameron's cat" was accepted by Peter Sagal and a bell ding given). Carl stated that Maz had only answered five questions correct. This will not Maz's first run-in with an incorrect answer/point count, as it also happened on the 2012-06-12 show. Unlike the outcome of 2012-06-16's show, Maz would have still come in third place with the correct score count.
2013-10-12
- First: Jessi Klein Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Luke Burbank Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Brian Babylon Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about an unusual family reunion, Not My Job about inspiring and heroic lawyers, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what new category will the Nobel Prize Committee reveal next year?
Jessi Klein stated that her win this week was her first win on the show; but, she actually won for the first time on the 2013-03-02 show (taped on 2013-02-28).
2013-10-19
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring Not My Job guest interviews from 2013
2013-10-26
- First: Mo Rocca Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Peter Grosz Total Score: 8 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 3)
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about an old joke coming to life, Not My Job about three of the most terrible products brought to market, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will President Obama pitch on TV after his presidency is over?
In the Lightning Fill In The Blank segment for edited version of the show, Mo Rocca had answered 4 out of the 6 included questions correct; even though, Carl stated that Mo answered 6 correctly at the end of the round. That meant that Mo had to have answered the two other (unaired) questions correct.