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April 27, 2002


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Eartha Kitt
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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Singer, actress and author Ms. Eartha Kitt

This Week's Panelists:

•Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post Style Section
•Adam Felber, writer and performer
•Charlie Pierce, Boston Globe and Esquire Magazine

Round 1


Who's Carl This Time? (Listen with Real Audio)
A new record for being a loser; A big gallic Non!; Elmo approves of a change in the Washington, D.C.

Opening Round (Listen with Real Audio)
One small step for Chinese food...; it's not just humans who feel their biological clocks ticking.

Round 2

Listener Limerick Challenge (Listen with Real Audio)
Three limericks revealing little known facts about Connecticut, the Nutmeg State.

Not My Job! (Listen with Real Audio)
Singer, actress and author Eartha Kitt plays a game called "You Are to the American Chain Restaurant what Leonardo Da Vinci was to Frescoes." Three questions about Fred Harvey who created the chain of Harvey Houses in the 19th century. Eartha Kitt's latest book is called: Rejuvenate! and is published by Scribners.

Round Two (Listen with Real Audio)
The Nazis wanted to avoid the trap, and the water hazard; Revenge we all can root for.

Round 3

Listener Limerick Challenge? (Listen with Real Audio)
It's not nice to fool mother nature; Man-mistress indeed; Someone's singing: "Oh won't you listen to the mime said..."

Bluff the Listener (Listen with Real Audio)
Modern Times: an old institution gets a 21st Century update

Lightning Fill-In-The-Blank (Listen with Real Audio)
All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.

Panelist Predictions (Listen with Real Audio)
The next new Girl Scout merit badge.

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