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Not My Job: Journalist Lesley Stahl Gets Quizzed On 'Star Trek'
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Not My Job: Journalist Lesley Stahl Gets Quizzed On 'Star Trek'

This year is the 50th anniversary of the original Star Trek. To mark the occasion, we've invited Stahl to answer three questions about the show.

Not My Job: Journalist Lesley Stahl Gets Quizzed On 'Star Trek'

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Friday

Ask Me Another

That's What I Hate About You

Jonathan Coulton plays the bad guy! In this game, we've rewritten The Romantics song "What I Like About You" from the perspective of famous fictional villains, complaining about their arch-enemies.

That's What I Hate About You

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Sunday

Finish This Puzzle, And You'll Be Just Like Overachievers: You Both Exceed
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Sunday Puzzle

Finish This Puzzle, And You'll Be Just Like Overachievers: You Both Exceed

Every answer this week is a familiar two-word phrase or name in which the first word ends in "X" and the second starts with "C" (as in XC, the Roman numeral for 90).

Finish This Puzzle, And You'll Be Just Like Overachievers: You Both Exceed

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Thursday

Ask Me Another

Celebrity Cross-Breeds

In this game we imagine what would happen if two famous people became close friends... and did that thing that all close friends do: combine their names. We're looking at you, Paul Ryan Gosling.

Celebrity Cross-Breeds

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Ask Me Another

This, That, Or The Other

This episode's categories are: the real names of famous rappers; delegates to the first 1774 Continental Congress; OR 1980s fictional teen villains. Can you tell the difference?

This, That, Or The Other

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AMA Bonus: Leslie Odom Jr. Performs 'The Guilty Ones'

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AMA Bonus: Leslie Odom Jr. Performs 'The Guilty Ones'

Leslie Odom Jr., the singer and actor performs a cover of Duncan Sheik's "The Guilty Ones" from Odom's self-titled debut album — with guitarist Robin Macatangay.

AMA Bonus: Leslie Odom Jr. Performs 'The Guilty Ones'

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Leslie Odom Jr.: Aaron Burr, Sir

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Leslie Odom Jr.: Aaron Burr, Sir

Broadway's Leslie Odom Jr., who played Aaron Burr in the hit musical Hamilton, joins us to talk about the show's meteoric rise and his path to Broadway as a high school student.

Leslie Odom Jr.: Aaron Burr, Sir

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