Show Details: November 2013
2013-11-02
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Rank:
First Tied:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
First Tied:
Faith Salie
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Tom Bodett
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
- Billy Collins Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about a current problem at the Dell Computer Company, Not My Job about Phil Collins, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: who will be revealed to be the one person the NSA is not spying on?
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
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Rank:
First:
Kyrie O'Connor
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
P.J. O'Rourke
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
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Third:
Bobcat Goldthwait
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
- Nick Offerman Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about people going to extreme lengths to be polite, Not My Job about extreme, masculine sports, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will Toronto Mayor Rob Ford do after he leaves office?
2013-11-16
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Rank:
First:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 17
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Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Mo Rocca
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Amy Dickinson
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Chris Hadfield Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about the military being used in a non-military way, Not My Job about lesser-known Toms, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the first thing delivered by the Post Office on Sunday?
At the beginning of the Lightning Fill In The Blank segment, 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. 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
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 17
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Second:
Faith Salie
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Brian Babylon
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
- Muffet McGraw Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about reasons why you might want to visit airplane bathrooms, Not My Job about nursery rhymes and children songs, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what surprise hit game will be now that the XBOX One and PlayStation 4 are out?
During the Who's Carl This Time? segment, the listener contestant had someone in the background and helped provide an answer to the question.
2013-11-30
- Jack Gantos Score: 2
- Barry Sonnenfeld Score: 2
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring things that Wait Wait panelists and staff are thankful for from the show
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".