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Ask Me Another audience members enjoy some potent potables from The Bell House's esteemed bartenders.

Ask Me Another audience members enjoy some potent potables from The Bell House's esteemed bartenders.
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Ask Me Another audience members enjoy some potent potables from The Bell House's esteemed bartenders.

 

So A Girl Walks Into A Bar...

This week's versatile V.I.P. has had spells as an author, an ordained minister, a fortuneteller, and a bartender — which serves her well during a delectable drinking game. And with quizzes covering highfalutin children's literature, crossbred celebrities and a geologist's favorite Queen song, this week's contestants show a little versatility, too.

May 24, 2013

Friday's Show

The Princess Who Saved Herself Jonathan Coulton

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Fortune Teller Robert Plant & Alison Krauss 1:02

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Soul Bossa Nova Quincy Jones

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Drinking with You Jonathan Coulton 1:04

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The queen of the puzzle castle, Ophira Eisenberg.
 

The 'Ophira Plays Favorites' Edition

This week, Ask Me Another leaves the decision making up to host Ophira Eisenberg, as we revisit some of her favorite games from the past two seasons. Ophira's motto: the weirder, the better. We'll analyze literary classics and bestsellers based on one-star Amazon reviews, flip through the pages of etiquette manuals published in the early 1960s, and even attempt the impossible: play Pictionary...on the radio! Plus: a tribute to a Billy Joel classic, reading advertising slogans like Valley Girls, and a quiz all about Starchild, Demon, Space Ace, and Catman — otherwise known as the rock band KISS. It's a trip down Ophira's memory lane — no flashback sequence necessary.

May 17, 2013

Friday's Show

Former Congressman Barney Frank chats with host Ophira Eisenberg at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston, Mass.
 

Frankly, We Heart Boston

In this rousing hour, taped live in Boston, we poke a little 'pun' at the local accent, imagine famous songs as if they had been written about Boston neighborhoods, and sing everyone's favorite Fenway Park anthem. Plus, play games with three hometown heroes: film critic Wesley Morris, young adult author Lois Lowry, and the wit of Capitol Hill--former Congressman Barney Frank.

May 10, 2013

Friday's Show

Host Ophira Eisenberg welcomes two brave contestants to the puzzle hot seat. Excitement? Nerves? You bet.
 

The Human Guinea Pig

This week, go grocery shopping with celebrities, learn to pronounce some really long German words, and have a little 'pun' with animal noises. Plus, find out about one man's quests to read the encyclopedia from A to Z, live his life according to the Bible, and achieve bodily perfection—author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs. How do you quiz the V.I.P. who knows everything?

May 3, 2013

Friday's Show

Contestants engage in a battle of wits during the "Ask Me One More" final round. Who will come out victorious?
 

Send In The Clowns

This week's we'll give some military officers a word game salute, follow a famous clown around the world, and find out there's nothing original left in Hollywood. Plus, we talk masked comedy with Seth Bloom and Christina Gelsone, The Big Apple Circus' husband-and-wife team known as the Acrobuffos.

April 26, 2013

Friday's Show

Host Ophira Eisenberg interviews V.I.P. (Very Important Puzzler) Michael Ian Black.
 

Always Bet On Black

This week, test your trivia prowess in games about celebrities who share the same name, tech companies that sound like Star Wars planets, and musicians whose names sound delicious. Plus our Very Important Puzzler, comedian, actor and author Michael Ian Black, reveals how becoming a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle launched his career. Hear him break out his best Valley Girl accent in the game "Just Do It?," and since he's a poker enthusiast, we up the ante with a card-themed quiz.

April 19, 2013

Friday's Show