Show Details: March 2016
2016-03-05
Someone's knocking at the door. Someone's ringing the billBill Kurtis
- First: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Adam Burke Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Bobcat Goldthwait Total Score: 6 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 2)
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about a new literary controversy, Not My Job about old sports jerseys, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will the GOP try next to bring down Donald Trump?
2016-03-12
Hey ladies, get your tickets to the Billith FairBill Kurtis
- First: Mo Rocca Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Faith Salie Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Third: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about people trying to capitalize on the Oscars, Not My Job about escalators and elevators, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the big thing to come from the US-Canada meeting?
Both Paula Poundstone and Peter Sagal were voice actors in the movie "Inside Out", which was the topic of Paula's Bluff the Listener story.
2016-03-19
Forget about March Madness, let's play basket-BillBill Kurtis
- First: Tom Bodett Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Peter Grosz Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Marina Franklin Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about something we once thought was bad for us actually is good for us, Not My Job about three things NPR listeners won't shut up about, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland do to convince the Senate to confirm him?
In the edited version of the show, Marina Franklin was asked five questions during the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round and answered four correctly. Bill Kurtis stated that she answered five correct, meaning that the fifth would have come from one of the three questions edited out.
2016-03-26
This is not a drill; it's a BillBill Kurtis
- First: Luke Burbank Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 4)
Who's Bill This Time, Bluff the listener about a Romanian town of Bogata, Not My Job about three different kinds of bases, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: where will President Obama go next, after visiting Cuba?
When Peter introduced Luke Burbank, the audience continued the tradition of chanting "Luuuuuuke!".