Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Stats Page
Show Details: July 1998
1998-07-04
- First: Margo Kaufman 14 (6 / 4)
- Second: Adam Felber 9 (5 / 2)
- Third: Roxanne Roberts 8 (5 / 1)
For the first We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the listener contestant chose Margo Kaufman's answer, which was correct.
The Spam Facts (aka Spacts) segment consisted of Peter Sagal and Carl Kasell reading various, interesting facts about Spam.
For the second We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the listener contestant chose Roxanne Roberts' answer, but Margo Kaufman's answer was correct.
Roxanne had used the bonus phrase as the answer for the last Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question to earn an extra point.
1998-07-11
- First: Roxanne Roberts 13 (5 / 4)
- Second Tied: Roy Blount, Jr. 9 (3 / 3)
- Second Tied: Charlie Pierce 9 (5 / 2)
The show's page on NPR.org listed Roy Blount, Jr., Adam Felber and Roxanne Roberts as the panelists for the show.
For the first We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the listener contestant chose Charlie Pierce's answer, which was correct.
When Peter Sagal asked Carl Kasell how Renée Montagne did, Carl said that Renée scored a "Suarez" by only answering one question correct. Previously, that was known as a "Palca".
For the second We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the listener contestant chose Roxanne's answer, but Roy's answer was correct.
1998-07-18
- First Tied: Roxanne Roberts 12 (6 / 3)
- First Tied: Adam Felber 12 (2 / 5)
- Third: Charlie Pierce 10 (4 / 3)
During the Suck Up to Minnesota: The Recap segment, Peter Sagal's father-in-law joined the show to provide his impressions on the show, as the show was picked up and aired by Minnesota Public Radio.
For the first We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the listener contestant chose Roxanne Roberts' answer, which was correct.
Fort he second We'll Wait, You Tell Us, the listener contestant chose Roxanne's answer, but Charlie Pierce's answer was correct.
After answering zero Not My Job questions correct, Tom Goldman said that he would talk to Susan Stamberg on how she coped (even though Susan technically did receive a point). Peter then stated that Tom had scored a "Stamberg" even though it was called a "Clintoff" on the show that aired on 1998-06-27.
The listener contestant for Who's Carl This Time? #2 asked if he could get Margo Kaufman to record his outgoing answering machine message. Peter agreed, but only if the listener could answer all three questions correct; but, the listener only answered one correct.
The clip of a shouting Finnish choral group that was played during the Week in Review segment replaced the sound of the gong concluding each panelists's questions during Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank.
1998-07-25
- First: Roxanne Roberts 16 (4 / 6)
- Second: Charlie Pierce 8 (4 / 2)
- Third: Margo Kaufman 7 (3 / 2)
The listener contestant for the first Who's Carl This Time? shared the same name as the show's senior producer, David Greene.
The first We'll Wait, You Tell Us uses a multiple choice format in which the listener contestant has to correctly guess three sets of multiple choice bluffs. For the first item, the listener chose Margo Kaufman's answer for the first bluff, which was correct. For the second item, the listener chose Roxanne Roberts' answer, but Charlie Pierce's answer was correct. For the third item, the listener chose Roxanne's answer, but Margo's answer was correct.
For the second We'll Wait, You Tell Us, which uses the regular bluff format, the listener contestant chose Charlie's answer, but Roxanne's was correct.
The clip of the shouting Finns replaced the sound of the gong during Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank again.