Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Stats Page

Show Details: April 2022

2022-04-02

NPR DB ID: 1263
Scorekeeper
Need a little color in your life? I'm ROYG-Bill
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Cristela Alonzo
Correct: Maeve Higgins
Description
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about three colors in the news, Not My Job about beauty pageant sashes, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the big story out of next year's Oscars?
Notes

The show was recorded remotely.

2022-04-09

NPR DB ID: 1264
Scorekeeper
Me quote The Princess Bridge? Inconceiva-Bill!
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Karen Chee
Correct: Karen Chee
Description
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about stories remembering British acting legend June Brown, Not My Job about legendarily bad announcers, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next big changes in Major League Baseball?
Notes

While Peter Sagal was summarizing the panelists' Bluff the Listener stories, Peter said "bread balls" instead of "bread bowls" and called Karen Chee, "Karen Tree". In response, Peter said, "Good, Lord. What is wrong with me?"

Matt Walsh initially chose "B" as the answer for the third Not My Job question and a few people in the audience booed. Peter Sagal re-read the choices and the audience cheered as Peter read "B".

2022-04-16

Best Of NPR DB ID: 1265
Scorekeeper
It must be spring, because the daffo-Bills are blooming
Description
Best Of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring several favorite moments from the show
Notes

The Not My Job segment with Chance the Rapper comes from the show that aired on 2021-11-06.

Negin Farsad was the guest host for the 2021-10-30 show wtih P.K. Subban as the Not My Job guest.

2022-04-23

NPR DB ID: 1266
Scorekeeper
Hey down there. Look out Bill-ow!
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Maz Jobrani
Correct: Maz Jobrani
Description
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about someone doing something 12,272 times, Not My Job about unscrupulous businesses, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will Netflix do to save itself?
Notes

The show was recorded remotely.

Another instance in which all three of the choices for the third Not My Job question were correct.

2022-04-30

NPR DB ID: 1267
Scorekeeper
I've been to several Super Bowls. I'm Buffalo Bill
Panelists
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Amy Dickinson
Correct: Amy Dickinson
Description
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about an unusual way to increase productivity, Not My Job about musical earworms, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next thing someone buys for $45 billion?
Notes

While Peter Sagal was clearing up what a billion is in context to the first queston during Who's Bill This Time? to Maeve Higgins (due to the different definition of billion: thousand million vs. million million). During which, Peter referred to Maeve as British. Maeve is Irish.

The listener contestant for the Listener Limerick Challenge segment was also named Maeve Higgins.

Maeve answered "Twitter" for her first Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question, to which Peter initially said "Yes" but almost immediately switched to "No". The correct answer was Tesla. For Maeve's second Lightning round question, she guessed "Kevin McGraw" and Peter said that he pretended that she said "Kevin McCarthy", which was the correct answer. Peter slipped out the answer while reading Maeve's fourth Lightning round question by saying "old..." instead of "blank-est".

Another instance in which the highest score is equal to the sum of the other two scores.