HOST: Peter Sagal
OFFICIAL JUDGE AND SCOREKEEPER: Carl Kasell
NOT MY JOB GUEST: Bob Freer, of Everglades Outpost
This Week's Panelists:
• Boston Globe writer, Charlie Pierce.
• Comedienne, Paula Poundstone
• Washington Post Style section writer, Roxanne Roberts
Round 1
Who's Carl
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Three non-elected figures who had a big effect on U.S. political history.
Opening Panel Round
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A round on military history: why Spain has a hard time winning wars, especially in the afternoon; a
different kind of military draft...
Round 2
Bluff the Listener
(Listen) "Oh! That explains it!" Three stories of
early incidents that explain a famous person's path later in
life.
Not My Job!
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Bob Freer, from Everglades Outpost (the go-to guy
for South Floridians who find exotic animals in their backyards)
plays a game called, "You look fabulous in those 40 pounds of
rhinestones." Three questions about Liberace.
Round 3
Panel Round Two
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Three questions about those weirdos we know
as European royalty; Russia's version of an R-rated reality show;
inbreeding in the Hapsburgs; seven years exile for that?
Carl Kasell's Countdown
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Three songs and stories, from the
1970s. The man who suddenly needed to be "Treated Like A Lady;"
an event that had Pennsylvanians singing, "You Light Up My LIfe;"
and the religion that had a hard time finding people who
were "Stayin' Alive."
Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank
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All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.
