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Saturday, December 15, 2012
Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
NIH Director Francis Collins Plays Not My Job
December 15, 2012 We've invited Collins to play a game called "OWWW!" Three questions about athletes and the surprising new ways they find to injure themselves.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Monday, December 10, 2012
The Salt
Sandwich Monday: The Latke Double Down
December 10, 2012 For this week's Sandwich Monday, we celebrate Hanukkah with the Latke Double Down, a Jewish take on the classic KFC sandwich which replaced bread with fried chicken. It's eight nights of calories in one, easy to hold package.
Sunday, December 09, 2012
Sunday Puzzle
Quick! Sneak In That 'QU'
December 9, 2012 Every answer is a six-letter word containing "QU" somewhere inside it. You'll be given anagrams of the remaining four letters. You name the words (No answer is a plural or a word formed by adding "s.").
Saturday, December 08, 2012
Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
Hugh Bonneville Of 'Downton Abbey' Plays Not My Job
December 8, 2012 We've invited Bonneville to play a game called "Welcome to America, Lord Grantham": three questions about the TLC show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.
Friday, December 07, 2012
Krulwich Wonders...
What To Do When The Bus Doesn't Come And You Want To Scream. An Experiment
December 7, 2012 Where's the bus? It's supposed to be here by now, but it isn't. You crane your neck. Nothing. And then — miraculously — there's a solution. The bus still isn't here. But something else is.
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
Monkey See
40 Years After 'Free To Be,' A New Album Says 'It's Okay To Do Stuff'
December 5, 2012 The new album It's Okay To Do Stuff pays tribute — sort of — to the 40-year-old Free To Be ... You And Me.
Sunday, December 02, 2012
Sunday Puzzle
Untangle An 'Act Of God'
December 2, 2012 Every answer is a familiar three-word phrase in the form "____ of ____." The letters in the first and last words of each phrase are rearranged. You give the phrases. For example, "Cat of Dog " becomes "Act of God."
Saturday, December 01, 2012
Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
Jake Tapper Of ABC News Plays Not My Job
December 1, 2012 We've invited ABC's longtime chief White House correspondent to answer three questions about a real tapper: Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Sunday Puzzle
A Puzzle More Delicious Than A Chard Shard
November 25, 2012 Every answer consists of a made-up two-word phrase in which the first word starts with CH, and the second word is pronounced the same as the first except with an SH sound at the start. (The spelling may or may not change.) For example, given the clue "some Central African fish," the answer would be "Chad shad."
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
Not My Job: We Quiz NASA Engineers On Mars Candy
November 24, 2012 On Sunday night, while the rest of us were ooohing and aahing over gymnastics, a bunch of propeller heads at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory were flawlessly steering a billion-dollar robotic space laboratory the size of a minivan to a landing on Mars.
Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
Astrophysicist Adam Riess Plays Not My Job
November 24, 2012 Before he won the Nobel Prize in Physics, Adam Riess had already won a MacArthur "genius" grant, and just about every prize there is to win in his field. So there's really only one place left for him to be victorious: the Not My Job game.
Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
Economist Paul Krugman Plays Not My Job
November 24, 2012 Paul Krugman — a professor at Princeton, an op-ed columnist for The New York Times and author of many books — has been called "the Mick Jagger of political/economic punditry." We'll ask him three questions about diplomatic gift giving.
Monday, November 19, 2012
The Salt
Sandwich Monday: Breathable Chocolate
November 19, 2012 For this week's Sandwich Monday, we try Le Whif breathable chocolate. It's a great way to get your chocolate fix without all the pesky chewing. It's also the perfect thing if you've been meaning to start smoking but want to ease your way in.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Sunday Puzzle
Being Initially Famous
November 18, 2012 Each clue is a two- or three-word description of a famous person in which the initial letters of the description are also the initials of the person. For example, given the clue "Motown great," the answer would be Marvin Gaye.
