Show Details: Repeats
2000-11-25
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Rank:
First Tied:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
First Tied:
Adam Felber
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 5 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
- Murray Horwitz Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about unkindest cuts from scathing reviews, Century in Review, Bluff the Listener about actors that want to direct but were stopped, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Panelist Predictions: what will be the unusual source for the first blockbuster movie of the 21st century?
2001-07-07
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Rank:
First:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 3
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Rank:
Second:
Adam Felber
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
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Rank:
Third:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 6
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 2
- Nina Totenberg Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about "The Fools in the Academy Thought You Were Insane...Insane, I Tell You! But You'll Show Them!", Late 20th Century in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about bold strides in military strategy, Panelist Predictions: what quotes will be mocked 25 years from now?
2001-11-24
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Rank:
First:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 18
Lightning Start: 6 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Adam Felber
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Robert Siegel (NPR) Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about politician's regrettable pronouncements from both sides of the aisle, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about the less distinguished relatives of distinguished, accomplished people, Panelist Predictions: what will be the New York Times headline for 1 Jan 2050?
2002-07-06
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Buddy Guy Score: 0
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about The Sound Of Music, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about revised history, Panelist Predictions: what will be the big headline on 1 Jan 2050?
2002-11-30
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Rank:
First:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 3
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Rank:
Second:
Adam Felber
Total: 9
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 3
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Rank:
Third:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 6
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 2
- Nina Totenberg Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about "The Fools in the Academy Thought You Were Insane...Insane, I Tell You! But You'll Show Them!", Late 20th Century in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about bold strides in military strategy, Panelist Predictions: what quotes will be mocked 25 years from now?
2002-12-28
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Al Franken Score: 0
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about snobbery and social climbing, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about Communist marketing plans that didn't quite pan out, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next historic, life-changing invention?
2003-07-05
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about new ideas and inventions made in 1998, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener, Panelist Predictions: what will headline the news on Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!'s Tenth Anniversary?
This show is a special broadcast of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!'s Fifth Anniversary, recorded on 2002-12-09.
2003-07-19
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Rank:
First:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 18
Lightning Start: 6 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Adam Felber
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Robert Siegel (NPR) Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about politician's regrettable pronouncements from both sides of the aisle, Week in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about the less distinguished relatives of distinguished, accomplished people, Panelist Predictions: what will be the New York Times headline for 1 Jan 2050?
2003-12-27
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about other innovations or ideas launched in 1998, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about where-are-they-now stories of key figures in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Panelist Predictions: what will be the major news headline at the Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! 10th anniversary?
This show is a special broadcast of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!'s Fifth Anniversary, recorded on 2002-12-09.
2004-07-03
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Mo Rocca
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Ira Glass Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about historical facts that were supposed to be set in stone, Not My Job about poet Martin Tupper, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what historical figure will be found to have been wrong about all along?
2004-11-27
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
- Bill Law Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about dirty political tricks that did not quite succeed, Not My Job about Providence, Rhode Island Mayor Buddy Cianci, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what new politician will rise up to our collective shame?
2005-01-01
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Rank:
First:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Richard Roeper
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Scott Turow Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about ideas on defeating your enemies, Not My Job about New York's Times Square, "Either Those Curtains Go, or I Do...", Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what previously unknown last words of famous people will be revealed?
The Wait Wait.. Don't Tell Me! page for this show when you manually enter in the date for the show lists the date of 2004-01-05. That day is actually a Thursday and not a Saturday, which is the normal week day that shows are listed under. The information listed on that page matches that of the 2004-08-07 show and that is the information that I am using to fill in the information for this show.
2005-07-09
- Ira Glass Score: 1
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! showcasing favorite moments from 1999 to the present
According to the show page on NPR.org, this show is a repeat of the Best Of show that aired on 2004-12-25.
2005-10-15
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
- Bob Freer Score: 0
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about past events that shape a famous person's later own the road, Not My Job about Liberace, Carl Kasell's Countdown, Panelist Predictions: what will be discovered about Harriet Miers?
2005-12-31
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Mo Rocca
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Ira Glass Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about historical facts that were supposed to be set in stone, Not My Job about poet Martin Tupper, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what historical figure will be found to have been wrong about all along?
2006-07-08
- Maj. Robert Bateman Score: 1 *
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! including: singing mice, "666"/"616" introduction debacle, Not My Job with Maj. Robert Bateman, Paula Poundstone's first win
2006-12-30
- Anthony Williams Score: 2
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! including: psychic Adam Felber and "embarrassing" answers, Roxanne and Mo lengthy attempts to correctly answer their questions, Dick Cheney incident, P.J. aggrieved rants, Bluff the Listener about KISS, Not My Job with D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams about Turkmenistan, panelists working together and thinking alike
At the start of the final segment, Peter Sagal mentioned that the clips came from the "May 15th" show. There was no show that aired on 2006-05-15. Instead, the clips came from the 2006-05-13 show.
2008-01-05
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Rank:
First:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 17
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Adam Felber
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second Tied:
Sue Ellicott
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 6
- Linda Ronstadt Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Not My Job about strange, but real, patents in recent years; Panel Round #2; Bluff the Listener about scandals from NASA's storied history; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: what will be in the letters that future presidents will send?
2008-05-31
- Elizabeth Edwards Score: 2
- Stephen Breyer Score: 0
- Al Michaels Score: 2
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! where Peter Sagal, Carl Kasell, Roxanne Roberts, Tom Bodett, Paula Poundstone, Charlie Pierce and Kyrie O'Connor review their favorite moments from the past ten years.
2008-07-05
- Craig Ferguson Score: 1
- Dave Barry Score: 2
- Gwen Ifill Score: 2
- Calvin Trillin Score: 2
- Kevin Clash and Elmo Score: 2
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring several favorite Not My Job guests from 2006
2008-08-23
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Rank:
First:
Adam Felber
Total: 19
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 8
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Rank:
Second:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 17
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Third:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
- Patrick Fitzgerald Score: 1 *
Who's Carl This Time?; Opening Panel Round; Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about questions specifically created to not be about Scooter Libby; Panel Round #2; Bluff the Listener about unusual summer camps; Lightning Fill In The Blank; Panelist Predictions: now that the final Harry Potter book has arrived, what will be the next fantasy series to consume popular culture?
2008-11-29
- Chris Paul Score: 3
- Anne Garrels Score: 1
- Valerie Plame Wilson Score: 0
- Michael Moore Score: 2
- Robert Lutz Score: 0
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring several Not My Job favorites
2009-07-04
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Rank:
First Tied:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
First Tied:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
- Clyde Edgerton Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about strange proposals for living history museums, Not My Job about the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the most important 21st century invention?
2010-07-10
- Michael Pollan Score: 2
- Craig Ferguson Score: 1
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, featuring favorite moments as requested by listeners
2010-08-21
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Rank:
First:
Kyrie O'Connor
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Tom Bodett
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
Lifestyles of the Rich and Despicable, Bluff the Listener about hard times for the rich, Not My Job about Hetty Green, the Witch of Wall Street, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will cause the next financial crisis?
2010-10-16
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Rank:
First Tied:
Adam Felber
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
First Tied:
Roxanne Roberts
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Mo Rocca
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
- George Takei Score: 1
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about family feuds, Not My Job about modern childbirth, Listener Limericks Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next parenting trend that will sweep the nation?
2010-11-27
- Kevin Fitzgerald Score: 3
- Bob Freer Score: 0
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, featuring great animal-inspired moments
When Carl Kasell was setting up for the clip of Mo Rocca receiving a homemade sweater, Carl said that it happened on a show from May 2009. It actually happened on the 2009-04-11 show.
2011-05-14
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Rank:
First:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 14
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Second:
Mo Rocca
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Third:
Tom Bodett
Total: 10
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 4
- Michael Pollan Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about green technology, Not My Job about high tech toilets from Japan, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next world-changing, earth-shattering invention?
2011-10-22
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Rank:
First:
Mo Rocca
Total: 13
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 5
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Rank:
Second:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 12
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 4
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Rank:
Third:
Roy Blount, Jr.
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 5
- Nora Ephron Score: 2
Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about not so super Superheroes, Not My Job about celebrity endorsements, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be next method of consuming media?
2011-12-31
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Rank:
First:
Kyrie O'Connor
Total: 16
Lightning Start: 2 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Second:
Tom Bodett
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Peter Grosz
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Dave Barry Score: 2
Diagnose Carl, Bluff the Listener about a team going above and beyond for a win, Not My Job about Soloflex, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what new disorder will be discovered?
The theme for this week's show is all about health and fitness.
2012-02-25
- Kevin Bacon Score: 2
- Lisa Kudrow Score: 2
- Pee-wee Herman (Paul Ruebens) Score: 2
- Lucy Lawless Score: 0
- John Leguizamo Score: 1
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring several actors and actresses featured on Not My Job
2012-12-29
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Rank:
First:
Charlie Pierce
Total: 18
Lightning Start: 4 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Second:
Tom Bodett
Total: 15
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 6
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Rank:
Third:
Jessi Klein
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 4
- Sir Peter Westmacott Score: 2
The Magna Carl-A, Bluff the Listener about political adversaries coming together, Not My Job about strange doings in school halls of power, Tippecanoe And Carl Too, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will finally make Republicans and Democrats come together?
Refer to the show notes from the original show, 2012-08-25, for the Lightning Fill In The Blank segment.
Special topic show with a look at politics, here and abroad, past and present.
2014-03-01
- Jim Bouton Score: 2
- Barry Sonnenfeld Score: 2
- Kyle Gass and Jack Black of Tenacious D Score: 2
Best Of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring favorite Wait Wait moments, including questions about IKEA and when science fiction meets science non-fiction
2015-04-11
Vertebrate AnchormanBill Kurtis
- Amy Tan Score: 2
- Misty Copeland Score: 2
- Rob Lowe Score: 0
- Mikaela Shiffrin Score: 3
- Baz Luhrmann Score: 2
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring favorite guest segments from 2014
2017-02-25
I'm the anchor real men tattoo onto their chestsBill Kurtis
- Jacques Pépin Score: 2
- Chance the Rapper (Chancelor Bennett) Score: 2
- Neil deGrasse Tyson Score: 1
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! with a look back at some favorite guests and segments
2017-08-26
I can tell your future, I'm your Crystal BillBill Kurtis
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Rank:
First Tied:
Paula Poundstone
Total: 17
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 7
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Rank:
First Tied:
Luke Burbank
Total: 17
Lightning Start: 3 Correct: 7
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Rank:
Third:
Faith Salie
Total: 11
Lightning Start: 1 Correct: 5
- Simone Biles Score: 1
Who's Bill This Time?, Bluff the Listener about improving workspace morale, Not My Job about the history of the iPhone, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be President Obama's next job?
This show is an encore presentation of the Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! show that aired on 2017-01-14.
Tom Hanks used the phrase similar to "hands on buzzer" a couple of times. Tom Hanks also called Bill Kurtis "Bill Kurtis with a K" a couple of times as well.
Paula Poundstone used the last name "Swamu" again in her Bluff the Listener story.
2018-08-25
I'm legendary anchormanBill Kurtis
- Kevin Fitzgerald Score: 3
- Rick Schwartz Score: 2
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring animal-related segments from past shows
This show is a repeat of the Best Of show that aired on 2015-07-04; which, in turn is a re-packaged version of the Best Of show from 2014-08-23.