Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! is an hour-long weekly news quiz (radio game show) produced and distributed by National Public Radio in the United States. The show is hosted by Peter Sagal, with scorekeeper Carl Kasell and a panel of three (drawn from Roy Blount, Jr., Sue Ellicott, Adam Felber, P.J. O'Rourke, Paula Poundstone, Charles P. Pierce, Roxanne Roberts, Mo Rocca and Richard Roeper). The program debuted in 1998. NeWS, for Network extensible Window System, was a windowing system developed by Sun Microsystems in the late 1980s. ... A game show is a radio or television program involving members of the public or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, playing a game, perhaps involving answering quiz questions, for points or prizes. ... NPR logo NPR redirects here. ... Carl Kasell (b. ... Roy Blount, Jr. ... Sue Ellicott is a former television correspondent for the BBC and political writer for The Times in Washington, DC. Ellicott has appeared on CNN, ABC News, and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. ... Patrick Jake ORourke (born November 14, 1947) is an American political satirist, journalist, and writer. ... Paula Poundstone (born December 29, 1959) is an American comedian. ... Mo Rocca (Born January 28, 1969) Writer and political satirist. ... Richard Roeper (born August 1, 1960) is a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and, since September 1999, has co-hosted Ebert & Roeper with film critic Roger Ebert. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

Listeners call or send e-mails to nominate themselves as contestants. The producers select a group of these listeners to be on the show and play games with questions based on the week's news. These games include: Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

• Who's Carl This Time? – The contestant must identify the speaker or explain the context of three quotations read by Morning Edition news-reader Carl Kasell (or his substitute). Two correct answers constitute a win. (In a variation of this game, Carl Kasell's Countdown, three popular songs are played and the contestant must identify the related news story.)
• Bluff the Listener – The contestant hears three stories read by the panelists and must determine the true news story from the fictional ones.
• Listener Limerick Challenge – The contestant must identify the last word or phrase in three news-related limericks read by Carl Kasell. Two correct answers constitute a win.
• Not My Job – A celebrity guest takes a three-question multiple-choice quiz on a topic unrelated to the celebrity's field. Two correct answers constitute a win and the prize goes to a randomly selected listener who contacted the show but was not chosen as a contestant.

The prize for winning any game is to have Carl Kasell record the greeting on the contestant's home answering machine. A quotation is a fragment of a human expression that is being referred to by somebody else. ... Morning Edition is an American radio news program produced and distributed by National Public Radio (NPR). ... A limerick is a short, often humorous and ribald poem developed to a very specific structure. ... A celebrity is a person who is widely recognized in a society. ... A prize is an award given to a person or a group of people to recognise and reward actions or achievements. ... An answering machine, also known as an answer machine (especially in UK and British commonwealth countries), ansafone (tradename [1]), ansaphone (tradename [2]), answerphone or telephone answering device (TAD), is a device for automatically answering telephone calls and recording messages left by callers. ...

In between games, Peter Sagal asks the panelists questions from the week's news and the panelists earn points by giving correct answers. A panelist also earns a point if a contestant chooses his/her story in the Bluff the Listener game, whether that story was true or made-up. At the end of the show, the panelists take a Lightning Fill-In-The-Blank quiz. Each panelist is given eight questions and scores 2 points for each correct answer. After the quiz all the points are totaled and the panelist with the highest score is declared the week's champion. Panelists do not receive prizes for winning.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! is produced at the studios of WBEZ in Chicago (Chicago Public Radio). A few times a year the cast travels to various cities in the United States and produces a road show in front of a live audience. Beginning May 12, 2005, the show will be recorded on most Thursday nights in front of an audience at the Bank One auditorium in Chicago. WBEZ is the callsign of Chicago Public Radio in Chicago, Illinois. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... WBEZ is the callsign of Chicago Public Radio in Chicago, Illinois. ...

External links

• Official Site (http://waitwait.npr.org/)