Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Saturdays at 11:00am and Sundays at 2:00pm
Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me! is NPR's weekly hour-long quiz program. Each week on the radio you can test your knowledge against some of the best and brightest in the news and entertainment world while figuring out what's real news and what's made up.
Lose the lightning fill-in-the-blank round on Saturday? No worries! There's a second chance to hear Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me! every weekend -- Sundays at 2 p.m.
'Wait Wait' for April 27, 2024: With Not My Job guest Renée Elise Goldsberry
Renée Elise Goldsberry won a Tony and Grammy for her role in Hamilton, and currently stars in Netflix's Girls5Eva. She may Goldsberry, but what does she know about buried gold?
Who's Bill This Time
Bill Kurtis reads three quotes from the week's news...Be The Donald; Heated Discussion; Charitable Misgivings.
Not My Job: Singer-Songwriter Jewel Gets Quizzed On Jewel Thieves
Before she hit it big with her first album, Pieces of You in 1995, Jewel was living out of her car. She tells her story in a new memoir, Never Broken. Originally broadcast Sept. 26, 2015.
Not My Job: Richard Price (AKA Harry Brandt) Gets Quizzed On Pseudonyms
For his latest book, The Whites, novelist Richard Price decided to use a pen name. In retrospect, he wishes he hadn't. Originally broadcast March 30, 2015.
Not My Job: We Quiz The Owner Of The Chicago Cubs On Victory Parades
This is the game where we quiz well-known people about things that they wouldn't have any reason to know anything about. We'll see how Tom Ricketts fares. Originally broadcast Sept. 19, 2015.
Not My Job: Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Gets Quizzed On 'General Hospital'
Sure, he knows hospitals, but does he know General Hospital? We ask Murthy three questions about the long-running soap opera. Originally broadcast July 25, 2015.
Not My Job: Mindy Kaling Gets Quizzed On Do-It-Yourself Projects
Since Kaling was the star of The Mindy Project, we're going to ask her to play a game called "The Home Improvement Project." Originally broadcast June 20, 2015.
Prediction
Our panelists predict, now that we know that being fat is good for you, what will be the next surprising bit of health news.
Lightning Fill In The Blank
All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.
Limericks
Bill reads three news-related limericks...Sole Survivor; Fowl Proposal; Ensure Is the New Merlot
Panel Round Two
More questions for the panel...Foreign Policy is not Brain Surgery; Hungry Man Dinners; Fl-uber
Bluff The Listener
Our panelists tell three stories of selfies doing something good for once.