Show Details: On This Day
This page provides a list of shows that have aired on past years on this month and day.
1998-10-17
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Rank:
First:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 12.5
Lightning Start: 4.5 Correct: 4
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Second:
Adam Felber
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
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Third:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 6.5
Lightning Start: 2.5 Correct: 2
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N/A
Week in Review; Historical Reenactment Theatre; Who's Carl This Time?; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Listener Bluff; Mystery Newsmaker; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
The Listener Limerick Challenge segment made its debut on this show.
For the Listener Bluff segment, the listener contestant chose Roxanne Roberts' answer, but Adam Felber's answer was correct.
The Mystery Newsmaker segment marks the return of the original Why Should We Know Who You Are? segment.
Roy Blount, Jr. and Roxanne started the Lightning Fill In The Blank segment with 2.5 and 4.5 points respectively. Their scores have been rounded up to the nearest whole numbers for the non-decimal score columns.
2009-10-17
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Rank:
First:
Mo Rocca
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 7
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Second:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Third:
Faith Salie
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
- Susie Essman Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about help from the Brady Bunch, Not My Job about Catholic Church saints, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be this season's big holiday gift?
The second limerick during the Listener Limerick Challenge called the two slashes in a URL "backslashes". Technically, the two slashes in a URI/URL are actually forward slashes.
While Mo Rocca was trying to come up with an answer for Mo's last Lightning Fill In The Blank question for the round, Peter interrupted Mo and told Faith Salie that "this might go on for a while".
2015-10-17
I'm the fire in your fireplaceBill Kurtis
- Itzhak Perlman Score: 3
- Amy Schumer Score: 2
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring warm and funny moments and interview with past guests
2020-10-17
I'm not going to settle in and spend time with you. It's just a Curtis-y visitBill Kurtis
- Dan Riskin Score: 2
- Padma Lakshmi Score: 2 *
- Adam Rippon Score: 2
- Sarah Cooper Score: 2
Best Of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring favorite segments from recent shows