Author Scott Turow
Author Scott Turow


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NPR

Aug. 7, 2004

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HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Author Scott Turow

This Week's Panelists:

• Journalist Sue Ellicott
• Movie critic Richard Roeper
• Author and humorist, Roy Blount, Jr.

This week's show comes to you live from Millennium Park in Chicago!

Round 1

Who's Carl (Listen)
Three quotes about really bad ideas in history.

» Music Cue: "It's the Real Thing"
CD Title: TeeVee Toons: The Commercials
Label: TVT Records

Opening Panel Round (Listen)
We quiz our panel about the foibles of presidential children.

» Music Cue: "Eye of the Tiger"
Artist: Suvivor
Composer: Peterik/Sullivan
CD Title: Rocky III Original Motion Picture Score
Label: EMI


Round 2

Bluff the Listener (Listen)
"Great Moments in National Defense" -- three different ideas for beating your foes.

» Music Cue: "Superchicken"
Composer: Worth/Allman
CD Title: Toon Tunes
Label: Rhino Records

Not My Job! (Listen)
Novelist and lawyer, Scott Turow, plays a game called "You're the Most Famous Traffic Bottleneck in the World" -- three questions about New York's most famous address... Times Square.

» Music Cue: "New York, New York"
Artist: Sinatra, Kelly, Munshin
Composer: Bernstien/Comden/Green
CD Title: That's Entertainment: The Ultimate Anthology of MGM Musicals
Label: Rhino Records


Round 3

'Either Those Curtains Go, or I Do...' (Listen)
Multiple choice questions about people's real last words.

Limericks (Listen)
Three rhymes based on Chicago's famous 1893 World's Fair.

Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank (Listen)
All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.

Panelist Predictions (Listen)
We ask our panelists to reveal the previously unknown last words of famous people.

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