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The Big, Mean, and Green

Test your ability to tell the difference between a Harry Potter spell, a prescription drug, and a piece of IKEA furniture. Then, meet a Rhodes Scholar-turned-filmmaker and comic book scribe — this week's Ask Me Another Mystery Guest.

July 13, 2012

Friday's Show

Ask Me Another's resident musician, the unstoppable Mr. Jonathan Coulton, pen in hand, works his improv magic on stage.
 

The Girl Who Played With Her Food

Translate international film titles, like "Meetings and Failures in Meetings," back into English, and try to name a military official famous for his chicken — who isn't Colonel Sanders. Then, meet our sweet-toothed chemist of a Mystery Guest.

July 6, 2012

Friday's Show

Ask Me Another contestants compete for the honor and glory of solving a puzzle.
 

Secret Agent Man

Host Ophira Eisenberg and her puzzle gurus serve up presidential tunes from our nation's capital. Also on the menu are a variety of cheeses — or are they Moby Dick characters? This week's Mystery Guest probably knows. His specialty is intelligence.

June 29, 2012

Friday's Show

From the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York, the audience reacts to a gaffe from puzzlers puzzling on the Ask Me Another stage.
 

The Sporting Lifer

Remember the Alamo, or the Aniston? For this hour of puzzles and trivia, it may help to know both. Contestants try topping Justin Bieber's lyrics, a backwards spelling bee, and our Mystery Guest tests his knowledge of pro athletes-turned-bad actors.

June 22, 2012

Friday's Show

Have jokes, will travel. The Ask Me Another crew take their puzzles on a roadtrip to the nation's Capitol.
 

The "Too Many Editions" Edition

Ask Me Another host Ophira Eisenberg and her puzzle mavens travel to Washington, D.C. seeking math in odd places and fitting new underwriters for some classic novels. Plus, a special visit from this week's Mystery Guest, a worldly NPR correspondent.

June 15, 2012

Friday's Show

The Ask Me Another crowd cheers for a contestant during a taping at Brooklyn's Bell House in New York.
 

You Always Remember Your First KISS

This hour of puzzles and games involves shared names, like Jon Favreau — Swingers director AND a White House speechwriter. There's also fictional love triangles and a quiz specially tailored for our Mystery Guest, a notable rock critic and pop culture aficionado.

June 8, 2012

Friday's Show

Ask Me Another host Ophira Eisenberg stirs up the audience during a live taping at the Bell House in Brooklyn, NY.
 

The Maverick of the Twitter Set

Our puzzle gurus imagine a world where horror film characters use dating sites and musicians write songs like, "Wake Up, Little Herman." Plus, our Mystery Guest tells us what makes America sexy, and shows us that the good life is but a tweet away.

June 1, 2012

Friday's Show

Make some noise for Ask Me Another.
 

Auto-Tune The Puzzle Show

House musician Jonathan Coulton takes a '90s alt-rock hit around the world in this week's music game, while contestants go to Tinseltown for some weird movie mash-ups. And this week's Mystery Guests tell us how they keep in tune with the headlines.

May 25, 2012

Friday's Show

Jonathan Coulton, left, Art Chung and John Chaneski like to start each show by throwing up some horns backstage at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY.
 

They Had Me At Hello

"Radio is a sound salvation," sang Elvis Costello, and it's also the theme of Jonathan Coulton's euphonious music quiz. Fitting that the Mystery Guest is a Broadway superstar. Plus, mutated movie titles, a double name game, and an etiquette test from the 1960s. Got a light?

May 18, 2012

Friday's Show

Members of the Ask Me Another audience at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY.
 

What Not To Wear... On The Radio

What do you get when you throw Leonard Bernstein, a 19th-century murderer, and the CEO of Goldman Sachs in a room together? Perhaps the best R.E.M. song ever. In this hour, contestants create horrific hybrids like Dr. Moreau, rewrite some outdated Cole Porter lyrics, and join this week's Mystery Guest to evaluate their own signature flourish.

May 11, 2012

Friday's Show