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Show Details: December 1998

1998-12-05

NPR DB ID: 341
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Charlie Pierce
Correct: Charlie Pierce
Description
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about appropriate musical cues for news stories; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Listener Bluff about how a news organization got fooled; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
Notes

For the Listener Bluff segment, the listener contestant chose Charlie Pierce's story, which was correct. The story was related to the Not My Job questions that they had asked Kevin Klose, which the film name translations and story were a hoax.

Including the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question that Peter Sagal asked Charlie when the gong sound was played, Charlie was asked nine questions. The current standard for Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank is that each panelist is asked eight questions.

1998-12-12

NPR DB ID: 342
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Adam Felber
Correct: Roxanne Roberts
Description
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about new ways to celebrate Chanukah; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about how a recent film has inspired prople to emulate the main characters; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
Notes

This is the first show in which the NPR.org site references the listener bluff segment as "Bluff the Listener".

1998-12-19

NPR DB ID: 343
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Adam Felber
Correct: Roxanne Roberts
Description
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a new reality television show; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
Notes

During Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank, before Peter Sagal asked Carl Kasell how many questions Adam Felber needed to win, Adam asked to be called "Carol", in reference to one of the questions Roxanne Roberts had. Peter then asked Carl "Alright, Carl. How many does Carol need to win?". Adam would then be called "Carol" up until the end of the segment.

1998-12-26

NPR DB ID: 344
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Charlie Pierce
Correct: Adam Felber
Description
Year in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about odd sounds heard on NPR this year; Listener Limerick Challenge; Year in Review; Bluff the Listener about one city's attempts to make life more pleasant for its residents; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank
Notes

With the show being a special 1998 Year in Review show, both Who's Carl This Time? segments contained four questions instead of the usual three. The listener contestants only needed to answer two correct to win.

The show did not close out with Predicting Next Week's Headlines, only the show's credits reading.