Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Stats Page
Show Details: November 1998
1998-11-07
- First: Roxanne Roberts 12.5 (2.5 / 5)
- Second: Charlie Pierce 10.5 (2.5 / 4)
- Third: Adam Felber 5 (3 / 1)
For the Listener Bluff segment, the listener contestant chose Adam Felber's answer, which was correct.
Both Roxanne Roberts and Charlie Pierce started the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment with 2.5 points each. Their scores have been rounded up to the nearest whole numbers for the non-decimal score columns.
After all three panelists completed the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment, Peter Sagal said that he would only crown a champion if anyone could say the "double bubble gum bubbles double" tongue twister three times. None of the panelists could, thus Peter didn't crown a champion even if Roxanne finished in first.
1998-11-14
- First: Roxanne Roberts 14 (4 / 5)
- Second: Charlie Pierce 13 (3 / 5)
- Third: Adam Felber 7 (1 / 3)
For the Listener Bluff segment, the listener contestant chose Adam Felber's answer, but Roxanne Roberts' answer was correct.
1998-11-21
- First: Adam Felber 15 (3 / 6)
- Second Tied: Charlie Pierce 11 (3 / 4)
- Second Tied: Roxanne Roberts 11 (3 / 4)
Carl Kasell slipped and called Kevin Klose, "Kevy" when describing the topic for the Not My Job questions.
For the Listener Bluff segment, the listener contestant chose Charlie Pierce's answer, which was correct.
In trying to help the listener contestant for Who's Carl This Time? #2, Roxanne Roberts gave the answer for the first question. Carl gave the point to the listener contestant.
1998-11-28
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At the top of the show, Peter Sagal mentioned that the segments included in this Best Of show featured the following panelists: Roxanne Roberts, Roy Blount, Jr., Charlie Pierce, Adam Felber and Margo Kaufman. Margo was not included in any of the segments, but Nell Benjamin was a panelist on the show for the second featured segment.
This is the first time Peter referred to the listener bluff segment, usually labeled as "We'll Wait, You Tell Us" or "Listener Bluff" on NPR.org, as "Bluff the Listener".
The featured segments included are:
- Who's Carl This Time? #3 from 1998-09-26
- Who's Carl This Time #1 and Historical Reenactment Theatre from 1998-10-24
- Listener Bluff #1 from 1998-08-01
- Who's Carl This Time? #1 (Listener Contestant) from 1998-10-03
- Listener Bluff #2 from 1998-09-26
- Who's Garfield This Time? #1 from 1998-08-22
- We'll Wait You Tell Us (Bluff) #2 from 1998-08-22
- Who's Carl This Time? #1 from 1998-10-31