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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Jean Cochran, in for Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: PBS NewsHour host Jim Lehrer. His new book
No Certain Rest is published by Random House.
This Week's Panelists:
• Roy Blount Junior, author and humorist
• Sue Ellicott, writer and journalist
• Mo Rocca, correspondent for Comedy Central's Daily Show
Round 1
Who's Jean This Time?
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The Showboat doctrine; The last time they got mad, they tried to take over the world; a goodbye to an institution and its ladies.
» Music Cue: "Smooth Operator"
Artist: Sarah Vaughan
Composer: M. Stein/C. Otis
CD Title: Sarah Vaughan's Golden Hits!
Label: Mercury
Year: 1990
Opening Round
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A joke by Jay Leno almost becomes a reality; They're tough, they're elite, and their faces are as smooth as a baby's bottom; Forbes names the richest fictional
character ... and no, it's not Scrooge McDuck.
» Music Cue: "Santa Claus is Coming To Town"
Artist: The Ventures
Composer: Unlisted
CD Title: The Ventures' Christmas Album
Label: Razor and Tie
Year: 1995
Round 2
Listener Limerick Challenge
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Forget Romania, bye bye Moldova, we've got your former Warsaw Pact Balkan hot spot; the
bureaucracy that found a hypotenuse problem; Abu Dhabi looks at its streetlights in utter confusion;
» Music Cue: "Rhapsody In Blue"
Artist: Leonard Bernstein/NY Symphony
Composer: George Gershwin
CD Title: Gershwin Rhapsody In Blue/An American In Paris
Label: CBS
Year: 1990
Not My Job!
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PBS host and author, Jim Lehrer plays a game called: "Sure, you were originally designed by Adolf Hitler, but man, are you cute!" Three questions about the history of
the Volkswagen Beetle taken from the book, BUG by Phil Patton.
» Music Cue: "Buggin'"
Artist: The Flaming Lips
Composer: The Flaming Lips
CD Title: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me Soundtrack
Label: Maverick
Year: 1999
Panel Round Two
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No shorts? What's a man to do?; The FBI's little gift to Zacarias Moussaoui; a walky talky goes where no walky talky has ever gone before.
» Music Cue: "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
Artist: Bing Crosby
Composer: N. Regney/G. Shayne
CD Title: Bing Crosby's Christmas Classics
Label: Capitol
Year: 1999
Round 3
Who's Jean Part II
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The man so many love to hate; yet another reason for New Orleans to throw a party; a Wait Wait goodbye to the preeminent purveyor of fried dough.
» Music Cue: "Coffee Five, Doughnuts Five, Coffee and Doughnuts Ten"
Artist: The Modernaires
Composer: F. Waller/ E Kirkeby
CD Title: DinerMite! The Swingin' Diner
Label: Sony
Bluff The Listener
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Leading A Nation? I'm so over that. Three stories about world leaders who found something to do in post-office retirement.
» Music Cue: "I Like Fish"
Artist: Bananas In Pajamas
Composer: C. Harriot/ S. Hopkinson
CD Title: Bananas In Pajamas: Bumping and a-Jumping
Label: Capitol
Year: 1997
Lightning Fill-In-The-Blank
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All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.
Panelist Predictions
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How will George Bush and Gerhard Schroder make up after their spat?
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