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Show Details: November 2013
2013-11-02
- First Tied: Paula Poundstone 14 (2 / 6)
- First Tied: Faith Salie 14 (4 / 5)
- Third: Tom Bodett 12 (2 / 5)
Due to some people taking offense to the Polish Union story/bluff from the previous week's Bluff the Listener segment (for the record, it was Peter Grosz's bluff), Wait Wait had comedian T.J. Jagodowski on the line to crack jokes at NPR and NPR listeners. T.J. Jagodowski and Peter Grosz are featured together in TV adverts for Sonic.
Carl Kasell gave a bell ding to Tom's answer of "go cup for his drunken streets (sic)", even though the proper answer would have been "beer".
2013-11-09
- First: Kyrie O'Connor 15 (3 / 6)
- Second: P.J. O'Rourke 10 (2 / 4)
- Third: Bobcat Goldthwait 9 (3 / 3)
2013-11-16
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. 17 (3 / 5)
- Second: Mo Rocca 14 (2 / 6)
- Third: Amy Dickinson 11 (3 / 4)
At the beginning of the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round, Mo Rocca had 2 points while Roy Blount, Jr. and Amy Dickinson had three points. According to both the podcast version of the show and the transcript, Roy answered five questions correct and would have had a total of 13 points and came in 2nd after Mo Rocca. Carl stated that Roy had a total of 17 points, which would have required Roy to answer two additional questions correctly for a total of nine questions, one more than the usual maximum of 8 questions.
The scoring and ranking reflects the official scoring as stated by Carl Kasell.
2013-11-23
- First: Charlie Pierce 17 (3 / 7)
- Second: Faith Salie 12 (2 / 5)
- Third: Brian Babylon 9 (3 / 3)
During the Who's Carl This Time? round, the listener contestant had someone in the background and helped provide an answer to the question.
2013-11-30
Returning from the first break in the program, Peter Sagal "pressed" one of the buttons in the studio recording room which caused the beginning of All Things Considered's theme to play. It was cut short and Peter reacted with "that's awful".