Show Details: On This Day
This page provides a list of shows that have aired on past years on this month and day.
1998-10-31
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First:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 12.5
Lightning Start: 4.5 Correct: 4
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Second:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 7
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 3
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Third:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 3.5
Lightning Start: 1.5 Correct: 1
- Kee Malesky Score: 3
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Week in Review; Not My Job about the weird and the supernatural; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Listener Bluff; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
Roy Blount, Jr. didn't know the answer for the first question of the Week in Review segment. Instead, both Charlie Pierce and Roxanne Roberts said the answer at the same time for half credit each.
For the Listener Bluff segment, the listener contestant chose Roxanne's answer, but Charlie's answer was correct.
Roxanne and Charlie started the Lightning Fill In The Blank segment with 4.5 and 1.5 points respectively. Their scores have been rounded up to the nearest whole numbers for the non-decimal score columns.
An audio clip of an evil laugh with screaming people replaced the sound of a gong to note the end of the one minute for each of the panelists' time for Lightning Fill In The Blank.
When Peter Sagal asked Carl Kasell how many questions Roxanne needed to win, Carl said three. Roxanne had 4.5 points while Roy had a total of 7 points. Thus, Roxanne would only need to answer two questions correct for a total of 8.5 points to win.
2009-10-31
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First:
Amy Dickinson
Total: 17
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 7
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Second:
Luke Burbank
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 7
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Third:
Julia Sweeney
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- George Romero Score: 3
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about getting what you want and the consequences thereafter, Not My Job about nice and cuddly Disney movies, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: after President Obama plays a round of golf with a woman, what will be the President's next show he's inclusive of the fairer sex?
Luke Burbank returns!!!
During the second panelist round, while Peter was asking Julia Sweeney's second question of the round, Julia yelled out "No! Don't ask me a sports thing!".
2015-10-31
Hey there Des Moines, I'm da manBill Kurtis
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Rank:
First:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Second:
Luke Burbank
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Third:
Tom Bodett
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Jake Tapper Score: 3
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about curry in the news, Not My Job about the state of Iowa, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what we'll do with all the meat we can't eat now?
2020-10-31
Don't worry about your mail-in ballot. You've got me, your mail-in Bill-otBill Kurtis
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Rank:
First:
Adam Burke
Total: 17
Lightning Start: 5 Correct: 6
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Second:
Faith Salie
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 6
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Third:
Alonzo Bodden
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
- Mike Murphy Score: 2
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about living your best life during the pandemic, Not My Job about insults through the ages, The Ballot Dump, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the biggest surprise on Election night?
The show was recorded remotely.
When Alonzo Bodden read his Bluff the Listener story, he read the units of transfer speed as, "MPS" instead of, "Mbps".
At the time of entering in notes for this show, NPR's show page called the segment after Not My Job, "The Campaign Dump;" while, Bill Kurtis called it, "The Ballot Dump". The latter is used in this show's description.
Another instance where all three choices of the third Not My Job question were correct.