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Friday, February 01, 2013

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So A Girl Walks Into A Bar...

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

February 1, 2013 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.

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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Sunday Puzzle

Two Blanks For The Price Of One

January 27, 2013 You will be given some sentences with two blanks. Add the letters E and Y to the word that goes in the first blank to get a new word that goes in the second blank.

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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!

Tech Guru Guy Kawasaki Plays Not My Job

Guy Kawasaki

January 26, 2013 Thirty years ago, Kawasaki went to work for a computer company that was trying to change the business with a product named after a fruit. Since helping launch the Macintosh computer, Kawasaki has been a venture capitalist, author and business consultant. We ask him three questions about Scientology.

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Friday, January 25, 2013

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The Man Who Knew Too Much. Way Too Much.

The bell: either friend or foe to all contestants who grace the stage at Ask Me Another.

January 25, 2013 So you think you're a TV buff. But how well do you know shows by their episode titles? Contestants are put to some pop culture challenges, like deciphering breakfast cereal haikus and a remixed nursery rhyme. Plus, our Mystery Guest this week is a certain brainiac who shares a few of his favorite apocalyptic prophesies.

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John Hodgman: How Much Does The Know-It-All Know?

"I could be wrong, you know:" John Hodgman notes that while his book That Is All is intensely concerned with "the coming global superpocalypse," it also contains much information about travel and sports and wine, and is "not depressing."

January 25, 2013 Our Very Important Puzzler is a renaissance man—he's been a cheesemonger, literary agent, traffic counter and more. A self-proclaimed expert in eschatology, the study of endings and destiny, he's a perfect candidate for our quiz on apocalyptic predictions.

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Sunday, January 20, 2013

Sunday Puzzle

The Names Of The Game

January 20, 2013 You will be given the first names of two famous people, past or present. The first person's last name, when you drop the initial letter, becomes the second person's last name. For example, given "Harold" and "Kingsley," the answer would be "Harold Ramis" and "Kingsley Amis."

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Saturday, January 19, 2013

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Melinda Gates Plays Not My Job

Melinda Gates

January 19, 2013 The co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plays a game called "But I meant well, your Majesty." Three questions about gifts given to Queen Elizabeth II.

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Friday, January 18, 2013

Ask Me Another

Send In The Clowns

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

January 18, 2013 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.

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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
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