Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Stats Page
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Welcome to the Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Stats Page! Here, you'll find almost everything that you might want to know about NPR's weekly news quiz show.
Below is a list of shows that have recently aired and the next show that will air.
2024-04-20
2024-04-13
- First: Mo Rocca 14 (4 / 5)
- Second: Negin Farsad 9 (3 / 3)
- Third: Maeve Higgins 6 (4 / 1)
Peter Sagal coached Bill Cowher in the style of Bill Cowher after Bill chose "A" for the third Not My Job question. Bill changed his answer to "B", which was correct.
The gong sound was played before Peter Sagal started asking Negin Farsad's last Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank question.
2024-04-06
- First: Adam Burke 14 (2 / 6)
- Second: Alonzo Bodden 12 (2 / 5)
- Third: Emmy Blotnick 11 (3 / 4)
All three panelists shared the same last initial, "B".
2024-03-30
I'm the man with a voice so rich and smooth, you're not allowed to listen on Good Friday
Josh Gondelman was the guest host for the 2023-03-04 show which featured Malala Yousafzai as the Not My Job guest.
The segment with David Axelrod comes from his second appearance as a Not My Job guest on 2023-03-25.
Alzo Slade was the guest host for the 2023-05-13 show which featured Gabrielle Dennis as the Not My Job guest.
2024-03-23
- First Tied: Helen Hong 12 (2 / 5)
- First Tied: Adam Felber 12 (4 / 4)
- Third: Hari Kondabolu 9 (3 / 3)
For the third Not My Job question, Laurene Powell Jobs asked the audience what they thought the answer was and the consensus was "A", which Laurene chose. It was another instance where all three choices were correct.
For Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank, Hari Kondabolu was credited with three correct answers. In the version of the show that aired, seven of the questions were included and Hari answered two correct. The third correct answer would have been for the question that was edited out.
When Peter Sagal asked Bill Kurtis how Hari did, Bill stated, "Well, Hari got three, which is more than Maeve usually does." Hari responded by saying, "That's mean to me!"