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For a wacky and whip-smart approach to the week's news and newsmakers, listen no further than Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me!, the oddly informative news quiz from NPR.

During each fast-paced, irreverent show, host Peter Sagal leads what might be characterized as the news Olympics. Callers, panelists, and guests compete by answering questions about the week's events, identifying impersonations, filling in the blanks at lightening speed, sniffing out fake news items, and deciphering limericks. Listeners vie for a chance to win the most coveted prize in radio: having official judge and scorekeeper Carl Kasell record the outgoing message on their home answering machine.

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Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me! is co-produced by NPR and Chicago Public Radio.

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Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
3:51 am
Sat June 15, 2013

Prediction

Originally published on Sat June 15, 2013 11:14 am

Our panelists predict who will be the next person to flee the country.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
3:51 am
Sat June 15, 2013

Bluff The Listener

Originally published on Sat June 15, 2013 11:14 am

Our panelists tell three stories about the secret lives of cats.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
3:51 am
Sat June 15, 2013

Limericks

Originally published on Sat June 15, 2013 11:14 am

Bill reads three news-related limericks: Affluent Effluent, Blockhead, Division of Labor.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
3:51 am
Sat June 15, 2013

Lightning Fill In The Blank

Originally published on Sat June 15, 2013 11:14 am

All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
3:47 am
Sat June 15, 2013

Who's Bill This Time

Originally published on Sat June 15, 2013 11:14 am

Bill Kurtis reads three quotes from the week's news: You Know How To Whistleblow, Don't You; It Takes A Hashtag; The Cape CodFather

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
3:47 am
Sat June 15, 2013

Panel Round One

Originally published on Sat June 15, 2013 11:14 am

Our panelists answer questions about the week's news: Hand Over the Remote and Nobody Gets Hurt.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
3:47 am
Sat June 15, 2013

Panel round two

Originally published on Sat June 15, 2013 11:14 am

More questions for the panel: Like Putting Money Under The Mattress, Going Nowhere Fast, I Am Not Misbehaving, Blue Plate Shmecial.

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
12:06 pm
Sat June 8, 2013

Bluff The Listener

Originally published on Sat June 8, 2013 12:58 pm

Transcript

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 his week with Roxanne Roberts, Tom Bodett, and P.J. O'Rourke. And here again is your host, at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago, Peter Sagal.

PETER SAGAL, HOST:

Thank you, Bill.

(APPLAUSE)

(SOUNDBITE OF CHEERING)

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Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
6:48 am
Sat June 8, 2013

Prediction

Originally published on Sat June 8, 2013 12:58 pm

Transcript

PETER SAGAL, HOST:

Now, panel, what surprise picture will the government find? P.J. O'Rourke.

P.J. O'ROURKE: Oh, they're not going to find anything as a matter of fact because the system was going great. They're getting just all sorts of terrific horrible images from all of the stuff that we've done. And they're going down through all of us by alphabetical order and they got to Anthony Wiener and it crashed.

(LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: Roxanne Roberts.

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Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!
6:48 am
Sat June 8, 2013

Who's Bill This Time

Originally published on Sat June 8, 2013 12:58 pm

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BILL KURTIS: From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME!, the NPR News quiz. I'm legendary anchorman Bill Kurtis, filling in for Carl Kasell.

(LAUGHTER)

(APPLAUSE)

KURTIS: And here's your host at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago, Peter Sagal.

PETER SAGAL, HOST:

Thank you, Bill

(APPLAUSE)

(SOUNDBITE OF CHEERING)

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