NPR

August 29, 1998



Host: Peter Sagal
Official Judge and Scorekeeper: Carl Kasell
Not My Job Guest: NPR Los Angeles Correspondent Andy Bowers

This Week's Panelists:


•Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style Section Writer, (Washington)
•Adam Felber, Writer and Performer (New York)
•Charlie Pierce, Contributor, Esquire Magazine and NPR's Only a Game (Boston)

Round 1: "Lightning True or False"

"We'll Wait, You Tell Us" (Listner Segments)
"Who Is Carl This Time?"


Round 2: "We'll Wait, You Tell Us" (Listner Segments)
Festivals Where People Throw Things At Each Other (but this time, TWO are real--only one is fake) AND a few words on personal comportment from our first president, George Washington.

"Week in Review"
Hurricane Bonnie AND peregrine falcons are in the family way; should voters be informed on their ballots that a candidate is deceased? -- the BBC thinks so; and more.

"We'll Wait, You Tell Us" (Listner Segments)
A New Personal Care Product

Round 3: "We'll Wait, You Tell Us" (Listner Segments)
"Not My Job"
NPR Los Angeles Correspondent Andy Bowers plays "You're the Research Scientist!"

"We'll Wait, You Tell Us" (Listner Segments)
"Who Is Carl This Time?"


Round 4: "Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank" (Listner Segments)
Each panelist has one minute to fill in as many blanks as he or she can.



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