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Show Details: December 1998
1998-12-05
- First: Sue Ellicott 14 (4 / 5)
- Second: Roxanne Roberts 12 (2 / 5)
- Third: Charlie Pierce 9 (3 / 3)
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
- First Tied: Roxanne Roberts 15 (3 / 6)
- First Tied: Roy Blount, Jr. 15 (3 / 6)
- Third: Adam Felber 10 (2 / 4)
This is the first show in which the NPR.org site references the listener bluff segment as "Bluff the Listener".
1998-12-19
- First: Charlie Pierce 12 (2 / 5)
- Second Tied: Roxanne Roberts 11 (3 / 4)
- Second Tied: Adam Felber 11 (5 / 3)
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
- First: Roxanne Roberts 13 (5 / 4)
- Second: Charlie Pierce 12 (4 / 4)
- Third: Adam Felber 6 (2 / 2)
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.