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'''''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 Pierce]], [[Roxanne Roberts]] and [[Mo Rocca]]). The program debuted in [[1998]].

Listeners call or send [[e-mail|e-mails]]s 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:

* '''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 KasselKasell (or his substitute). Two correct answers constitute a win.

* '''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 [[limerick (poetry)|limericks]] read by Carl KasselKasell. Two correct answers constitute a win.

* '''Not My Job''' – A [[celebrity]] guest takes a three-question multiple-choice quiz on 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.