Show Details: Repeats
2000-11-25
- First Tied: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- First Tied: Adam Felber Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 5 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
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
- First: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 3)
- Second: Adam Felber Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 3)
- Third: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 6 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 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
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 6 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Adam Felber Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
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
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second Tied: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second Tied: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
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
- First: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 3)
- Second: Adam Felber Total Score: 9 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 3)
- Third: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 6 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 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
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second Tied: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second Tied: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
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
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
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
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 6 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Adam Felber Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
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
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
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
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second Tied: Mo Rocca Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second Tied: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
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
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
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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
- First: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Richard Roeper Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
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
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
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
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
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second Tied: Mo Rocca Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Second Tied: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
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
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
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
- First: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second Tied: Adam Felber Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second Tied: Sue Ellicott Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 6)
Who's Carl This Time?, Not My Job about strange patents and inventions, Bluff the Listener about NASA scandals, Panelist Predictions: what will presidential letters from the future contain?
2008-05-31
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
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring several favorite Not My Job guests from 2006
2008-08-23
- First: Adam Felber Total Score: 19 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 8)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job not about "Scooter" Libby, Bluff the Listener about unusual summer camps, Panelist Predictions: what the next popular fantasy series after Harry Potter?
2008-11-29
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring several Not My Job favorites
2009-07-04
- First Tied: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- First Tied: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
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
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, featuring favorite moments as requested by listeners
2010-08-21
- First: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Tom Bodett Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 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
- First Tied: Adam Felber Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- First Tied: Roxanne Roberts Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Mo Rocca Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
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
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
- First: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 14 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Second: Mo Rocca Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Third: Tom Bodett Total Score: 10 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 4)
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
- First: Mo Rocca Total Score: 13 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 5)
- Second: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 12 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 4)
- Third: Roy Blount, Jr. Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 5)
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
- First: Kyrie O'Connor Total Score: 16 (Starting Score: 2 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Tom Bodett Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Peter Grosz Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
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
Best of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! featuring several actors and actresses featured on Not My Job
2012-12-29
- First: Charlie Pierce Total Score: 18 (Starting Score: 4 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Second: Tom Bodett Total Score: 15 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 6)
- Third: Jessi Klein Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 4)
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 round.
Special topic show with a look at politics, here and abroad, past and present.
2014-03-01
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
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
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
- First Tied: Paula Poundstone Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- First Tied: Luke Burbank Total Score: 17 (Starting Score: 3 / Correct Answers: 7)
- Third: Faith Salie Total Score: 11 (Starting Score: 1 / Correct Answers: 5)
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
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.