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Show Details: 2002

2002-01-05

NPR DB ID: 261
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Adam Felber
Correct: Adam Felber
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about The Sound Of Music, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about revised history, Panelist Predictions: what will be the big headline on 1 Jan 2050?

2002-01-12

NPR DB ID: 262
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Sue Ellicott
Correct: Adam Felber
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about fake bands, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about problems with the new Euro currency, Panelist Predictions: who will follow Paula Zahn with a "just a little bit sexy" ad campaign?

2002-01-19

NPR DB ID: 263
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Roy Blount, Jr.
Correct: Roxanne Roberts
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Historical Reenactment Theatre, Not My Job about the high life, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about mid-season TV replacements, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next snack food incident?

2002-01-26

NPR DB ID: 264
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Sue Ellicott
Correct: Roy Blount, Jr.
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about errors in the New York Times, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about unlikely legislative tales, Panelist Predictions: what will be K-Mart's last ditch effort to revive itself?

2002-02-02

NPR DB ID: 265
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Charlie Pierce
Correct: Charlie Pierce
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about Super Bowl halftime shows, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about real estate stories, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next public object found to be offensive?

2002-02-09

NPR DB ID: 266
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Sue Ellicott
Correct: Sue Ellicott
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about Mr. Potato Head, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about new concepts in dining out, Panelist Predictions: how else will the Red Cross dole out 9/11 donation money?

2002-02-16

NPR DB ID: 267
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Roxanne Roberts
Correct: Roxanne Roberts
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about Valentine's Day, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about being the first on your block, Panelist Predictions: how will figure skating come back from the gold medal controversy?

2002-02-23

NPR DB ID: 268
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Roxanne Roberts
Correct: Charlie Pierce
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Historical Reenactment Theatre, Not My Job about Wal-Mart, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about city government 21st century style, Panelist Predictions: what hot new sport will be invented for the next Winter Olympics?

2002-03-02

NPR DB ID: 269
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Roy Blount, Jr.
Correct: Charlie Pierce
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about saints, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about people joining forces to fight against something, Panelist Predictions: who will be the next person to be canonized as a saint?

2002-03-09

NPR DB ID: 270
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Charlie Pierce
Correct: Roxanne Roberts
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about the Statistical Abstract of the United States, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about celebration, Panelist Predictions: how will the Ted Koppel/David Letterman controversy play out?

2002-03-16

NPR DB ID: 271
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Adam Felber
Correct: Adam Felber
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about the original Axis of Evil, Historical Reenactment Theatre, Bluff the Listener about ancestry, Panelist Predictions: which government program will benefit from the eye of Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge?

2002-03-23

NPR DB ID: 272
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Roxanne Roberts
Correct: P.J. O'Rourke
Description
Who's Corey This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about the death of the rich and famous, Who's Corey This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about controversies among the crystals and Windham Hill crowd, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next large mass to fall into the sea?

2002-03-30

NPR DB ID: 273
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Mo Rocca
Correct: Mo Rocca
Description
Who's Corey This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about the movie E.T., Who's Corey This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about customer disservice, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next Playboy theme pictorial?

2002-04-06

NPR DB ID: 274
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Roxanne Roberts
Correct: Roxanne Roberts
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Historical Reenactment Theatre, Not My Job about hoaxes, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about airport woes, Panelist Predictions: what really is the blob off of the coast of Florida?

2002-04-13

NPR DB ID: 275
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: P.J. O'Rourke
Correct: Charlie Pierce
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about thoroughbred racehorse breeding, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about staking a claim, Panelist Predictions: what will Oprah do that her book club is no more?

2002-04-20

NPR DB ID: 276
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Roy Blount, Jr.
Correct: Roy Blount, Jr.
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about taxes, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about "We didn't tell them to stage a coup; anybody want a lockbox?; rock stars are insecure too", Panelist Predictions: what will be the next innovation in firehouses?

2002-04-27

NPR DB ID: 277
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Roxanne Roberts
Correct: Roxanne Roberts
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about Harvey Houses creator Fred Harvey, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about an old institution that gets a 21st century update, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next new Girl Scout merit badge?

2002-05-04

NPR DB ID: 278
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Adam Felber
Correct: Adam Felber
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about MAD magazine, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about bringing help to the hopeless, Panelist Predictions: what will the Hubble Telescope see next?

2002-05-11

NPR DB ID: 279
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Mo Rocca
Correct: Mo Rocca
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about "You're a chicken... but we mean that in a good way", Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about an enthusiasts meets its maker, Panelist Predictions: what will really happen on the Rolling Stones' tour?

2002-05-18

NPR DB ID: 280
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Roy Blount, Jr.
Correct: Adam Felber
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about the military tank, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about a new wrinkle in the revival of all things 1970's, Panelist Predictions: how will the Democrats top the GOP selling pictures of President Bush taken on 9/11 as a fundraising attempt?

2002-05-25

NPR DB ID: 281
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: P.J. O'Rourke
Correct: Charlie Pierce
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Historical Reenactment Theatre, Not My Job about the Stanley Cup, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about overcoming the modern-day Goliaths, Panelist Predictions: where will Ally McBeal turn up now that her show as been cancelled?

2002-06-01

NPR DB ID: 282
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Sue Ellicott
Correct: Mo Rocca
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about unhealthy restaurant food, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about weddings in the news, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next snack food based on a world leader?

2002-06-08

NPR DB ID: 283
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: P.J. O'Rourke
Correct: Roy Blount, Jr.
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about John McEnroe, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about the insulted battle their insulters, Panelist Predictions: what will the Bush administration do about global warming?

2002-06-15

NPR DB ID: 284
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Charlie Pierce
Correct: Sue Ellicott
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job the dot-com disasters, Historical Reenactment Theatre, Bluff the Listener about summer vacation packages, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next company to come up with a perplexing corporate image?

2002-06-22

NPR DB ID: 285
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Adam Felber
Correct: Adam Felber
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about Watergate, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about new games, Panelist Predictions: what will Jesse Ventura do after being governor of Minnesota?

2002-06-29

NPR DB ID: 569
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Roxanne Roberts
Correct: Charlie Pierce
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about the Tour De France bike race, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about something previously loathed but now loved, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next instance of corporate malfeasance?

2002-07-06

Repeat: 2002-01-05 NPR DB ID: 286
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Adam Felber
Correct: Adam Felber
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about The Sound Of Music, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about revised history, Panelist Predictions: what will be the big headline on 1 Jan 2050?

2002-07-13

NPR DB ID: 287
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Adam Felber
Correct: Roy Blount, Jr.
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about the golden age of radio, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about devotion to an institution of higher learning, Panelist Predictions: what will happen at Janet Reno's disco dance party next weekend?

2002-07-20

NPR DB ID: 288
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Roxanne Roberts
Correct: P.J. O'Rourke
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about air conditioning, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about wonderment in the news, Panelist Predictions: what will happen if TIPS (the program in which regular Americans will be recruited as homeland spies) is implemented?

2002-07-27

NPR DB ID: 289
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Mo Rocca
Correct: Paula Poundstone
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about Business 2.0's "101 Dumbest Moments in Business", Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about summer camps, Panelist Predictions: what will James Traficant's election slogan be... from jail?

2002-08-03

NPR DB ID: 290
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Charlie Pierce
Correct: Roxanne Roberts
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about silent film, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about new sights in the singles scene, Panelist Predictions: how will the US finally oust Saddam Hussein?

2002-08-10

NPR DB ID: 291
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Sue Ellicott
Correct: Charlie Pierce
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about the Grateful Dead, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about politicians coming clean before being outed by 60 Minutes, Panelist Predictions: what will happen on the next episode of the Anna Nicole Smith reality TV show?

2002-08-17

NPR DB ID: 292
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Adam Felber
Correct: Adam Felber
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Historical Reenactment Theatre, Not My Job about Elvis, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about people trying to fit in, Panelist Predictions: what will be the subject of Bush's next summit?

2002-08-24

NPR DB ID: 293
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Adam Felber
Correct: Adam Felber
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about shoe designer Manolo Blahnik, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about ad campaigns that just didn't quite make the sale, Panelist Predictions: how will baseball be saved from its labor strife?

2002-08-31

NPR DB ID: 294
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Sue Ellicott
Correct: Sue Ellicott
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about heavy metal music, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about wacky ideas in the world of academia, Panelist Predictions: how will President Bush convince the world that the US should invade Iraq?

2002-09-07

NPR DB ID: 295
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Charlie Pierce
Correct: Roy Blount, Jr.
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about snobbery and social climbing, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about Communist marketing plans that didn't quite pan out, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next historic, life-changing invention?

2002-09-14

NPR DB ID: 296
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Mo Rocca
Correct: Mo Rocca
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about anti-gravity, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about names, Panelist Predictions: what will scientists find on the newly discovered moon orbiting the Earth?

2002-09-21

NPR DB ID: 297
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Adam Felber
Correct: Adam Felber
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Historical Reenactment Theatre, Not My Job about the outdated heyday of the air hostess, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about people who took a chance and got their big break, Panelist Predictions: who will be the next celebrity to change his or her image?

2002-09-28

NPR DB ID: 298
Scorekeeper
Guest: Jean Cochran
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Sue Ellicott
Correct: Sue Ellicott
Description
Who's Jean This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about the Volkswagen Beetle, Who's Jean This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about world leaders who found something to do in retirement, Panelist Predictions: how will President Bush and Gerhard Schroder make up after their spat?

2002-10-05

NPR DB ID: 299
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Roxanne Roberts
Correct: Roxanne Roberts
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about the New York Yankees, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about value, Panelist Predictions: how will the war in Iraq be averted?

2002-10-12

NPR DB ID: 300
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Adam Felber
Correct: Adam Felber
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Historical Reenactment Theatre, Not My Job about SUVs, Listener Limerick Challenge, Bluff the Listener about cheaters that did not prosper, Panelist Predictions: what will be the fate of Pluto now that its planetary status is in question?

2002-10-19

NPR DB ID: 301
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Sue Ellicott
Correct: Mo Rocca
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about Hillary Clinton, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about a group hiring a spokesperson who doesn't fit the bill or fits the bill too well, Panelist Predictions: what will be Madonna's next movie?

2002-10-26

NPR DB ID: 302
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: P.J. O'Rourke
Correct: P.J. O'Rourke
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about Superman, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about bizarre ways politicians tried to get voters' attention, Panelist Predictions: what will happen in the soon-to-be-written Godfather IV?

2002-11-02

NPR DB ID: 303
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Sue Ellicott
Correct: Sue Ellicott
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about Saturday Night Live, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about civic rejuvenation, Panelist Predictions: what will be the big headline out of next week's election?

2002-11-09

NPR DB ID: 304
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Mo Rocca
Correct: Roxanne Roberts
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about modern art, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about ordinary people trying to become a superhero, Panelist Predictions: what will be the first bill to be passed by the GOP controlled Congress?

2002-11-16

NPR DB ID: 305
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Roy Blount, Jr.
Correct: Roy Blount, Jr.
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about the Science of Funny, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about a failed attempt of modernizing something steeped in tradition, Panelist Predictions: what will Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez give for the break up of their marriage in 8 months?

2002-11-23

NPR DB ID: 306
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Correct: Paula Poundstone
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about James Bond, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about hyenas, Panelist Predictions: what will be the first act of the new Department of Homeland Security?
Notes

Paula Poundstone did not answer any Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank questions correctly.

2002-11-30

Repeat: 2000-05-27 NPR DB ID: 307
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Sue Ellicott
Correct: Adam Felber
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about "The Fools in the Academy Thought You Were Insane...Insane, I Tell You! But You'll Show Them!", Late 20th Century in Review, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about bold strides in military strategy, Panelist Predictions: what quotes will be mocked 25 years from now?

2002-12-07

NPR DB ID: 308
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Sue Ellicott
Correct: Sue Ellicott
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about IKEA, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about extreme Christmas presents, Panelist Predictions: what will the weapons inspectors find in Iraq?

2002-12-14

NPR DB ID: 310
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Roxanne Roberts
Correct: Mo Rocca
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about the Dutch version of St. Nicholas, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about overweight Americans, Panelist Predictions: what will Trent Lott say next?

2002-12-21

NPR DB ID: 311
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Bluff(s)
#1
Correct: Charlie Pierce
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about snack foods, Panelist Predictions: who is the Newsmaker of the Year for 2002?

2002-12-28

Repeat: 2002-09-07 NPR DB ID: 312
Scorekeeper
Panelists
Guests
Bluff(s)
#1
Chosen: Charlie Pierce
Correct: Roy Blount, Jr.
Description
Who's Carl This Time?, Listener Limerick Challenge, Not My Job about snobbery and social climbing, Who's Carl This Time? Round II, Bluff the Listener about Communist marketing plans that didn't quite pan out, Panelist Predictions: what will be the next historic, life-changing invention?