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Show Details

2013-11-16

NPR DB ID: 825

Location

Chase Auditorium (Chicago, IL)

Host

Peter Sagal

Scorekeeper

Carl Kasell

Panelists

First: Roy Blount, Jr. 17 (3 / 5)
Second: Mo Rocca 14 (2 / 6)
Third: Amy Dickinson 11 (3 / 4)

Guests

Chris Hadfield 2

Bluff(s)

            #1
        
            Chosen:
                Amy Dickinson
        
            Correct:
                Amy Dickinson

Description

Who's Carl This Time?, Bluff the Listener about the military being used in a non-military way, Not My Job about lesser-known Toms, Listener Limerick Challenge, Panelist Predictions: what will be the first thing delivered by the Post Office on Sunday?

Notes

At the beginning of the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round, Mo Rocca had 2 points while Roy Blount, Jr. and Amy Dickinson had three points. According to both the podcast version of the show and the transcript, Roy answered five questions correct and would have had a total of 13 points and came in 2nd after Mo Rocca. Carl stated that Roy had a total of 17 points, which would have required Roy to answer two additional questions correctly for a total of nine questions, one more than the usual maximum of 8 questions.

The scoring and ranking reflects the official scoring as stated by Carl Kasell.