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Show Details: February 1999

1999-02-06

NPR DB ID: 349
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Margo Kaufman
Correct: Margo Kaufman
Description
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about the arts and the law intersecting; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a new development in telecommunications; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines

1999-02-13

NPR DB ID: 350
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 love and romantic entanglements; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a Biblical tourist attraction opening soon; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines
Notes

The clip of the shouting Finns made a return to replace the sound of the gong during the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment. Roxanne Roberts and Adam Felber started the segment with 2.5 and 3.5 points, respectively. Both correctly answered three questions each for a respectively total of 8.5 and 9.5. Both scores have been rounded up for the integer score columns.

1999-02-20

NPR DB ID: 351
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Roxanne Roberts
Correct: Roxanne Roberts
Description
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about newsmaking activists and protestors; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a group speaking out for their rights; Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predicting Next Week's Headlines

1999-02-27

NPR DB ID: 352
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Roy Blount, Jr.
Correct: Roxanne Roberts
Description
Week in Review; Who's Carl This Time?; Not My Job about notable achievements in the televised past; Listener Limerick Challenge; Week in Review; Bluff the Listener about a new story that contains the three words: rock, whales and thousands (or their homophones); Who's Carl This Time? #2; Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank; Predictions: what will be Hillary Clinton's campaign slogan?
Notes

For Not My Job, there was a fourth option for "none of the above" for all three questions.

Instead of predicting headlines for the next week, the predictions were for a specific theme. Future Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! shows would replace "Predicting Next Week's Headlines" with "Panelist Predictions".