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Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
1:33 am
Sat May 25, 2013

Who's Bill This Time

Originally published on Sat May 25, 2013 11:07 am

Bill Kurtis reads three quotes from the week's news" President O'Drama, iRate, Mind The Orbit.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
1:33 am
Sat May 25, 2013

Panel Round One

Originally published on Sat May 25, 2013 11:07 am

Our panelists answer questions about the week's news: This Face for Rent.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
1:33 am
Sat May 25, 2013

Bluff The Listener

Originally published on Sat May 25, 2013 11:07 am

Our panelists tell three stories about someone making trash into a must-have item.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
1:33 am
Sat May 25, 2013

Panel Round Two

Originally published on Sat May 25, 2013 11:07 am

More questions for the panel: Hewlett Pizza, Vogue Visas, The Love Train.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
1:33 am
Sat May 25, 2013

Limericks

Originally published on Sat May 25, 2013 11:07 am

Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: The Pale Diet, Folgers of Maine, A Fair Perspective.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
1:33 am
Sat May 25, 2013

Prediction

Originally published on Sat May 25, 2013 11:21 am

Our panelists predict how Apple will repair their image.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
1:32 am
Sat May 25, 2013

Lightning Fill In The Blank

Originally published on Sat May 25, 2013 11:07 am

All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
12:35 am
Sat May 18, 2013

Panel Round One

Originally published on Sat May 18, 2013 12:09 pm

Transcript

PETER SAGAL, HOST:

We want to remind everybody they can join us here most weeks at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago. For tickets and more information, go to wbez.org, and you can find a link at our website, waitwait.npr.org.

Right now, panel, time for you to answer some questions about this week's news. Bobcat, the U.N. is trying to figure out the problem of feeding an exploding global population. But they have come up with a solution, they say people should eat what?

BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT: Children.

(LAUGHTER)

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Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
12:35 am
Sat May 18, 2013

Lightning Fill In The Blank

Originally published on Sat May 18, 2013 12:09 pm

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PETER SAGAL HOST: On to our final game, Lightning Fill in the Blank. Each of our players will have 60 seconds in which to answer as many fill in the blank questions as he or she can. She correct answer now worth two points. Bill, can you give us the scores?

BILL KURTIS: Bobcat has one, Kyrie, two, Tom is in the lead with three.

HOST: Bobcat, you are in third place, so you got first.

BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT: Yeah, I'm the dark horse.

(LAUGHTER)

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Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
12:35 am
Sat May 18, 2013

Bluff The Listener

Originally published on Sat May 18, 2013 12:09 pm

Transcript

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

BILL KURTIS: From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME!, the NPR News quiz. I'm Bill Kurtis filling in for Carl Kasell. We're playing this week with Bobcat Goldthwait, Kyrie O'Connor, and Tom Bodett. And here again is your host, at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago, Peter Sagal.

PETER SAGAL, HOST:

Thank you, Bill.

(APPLAUSE)

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