Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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CARL KASELL, HOST:

From NPR and WBEZ-Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME!, the NPR News quiz. I'm Carl Kasell, and here's your host, at the Eastern Kentucky Center for the Arts in Richmond, Kentucky, Peter Sagal.

PETER SAGAL, HOST:

Thank you, Carl.

(SOUNDBITE OF APPLAUSE)

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CARL KASELL, HOST:

From NPR and WBEZ-Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME!, the NPR News quiz. I'm Carl Kasell. We're playing this week with Charlie Pierce, Kyrie O'Connor and Peter Grosz. And here again is your host, at the EKU Center for the Arts in Richmond, Kentucky, Peter Sagal.

PETER SAGAL, HOST:

Thank you, Carl.

(SOUNDBITE OF APPLAUSE)

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PETER SAGAL, HOST:

Hey, if you've ever wondered what we look like, now is your chance to either be pleasantly surprised or horrified. We're doing our first ever TV special in a few weeks. It's WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME!'s year in review for 2011.

It's an hour long television special on BBC America, on Friday, December 23rd, and it will also be heard on your favorite public radio station that weekend. I know it will be a tough choice between Carl and Frost the Snowman, but Carl does not need no magic hat to talk.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

Carl reads three quotes from the weeks news: Herman's Her-mistresses; I Love The '70s: Iran; and Onward to Mars!

Our panelists answer questions about the week's news: Rick Perry's trouble with numbers.

Our panelists tell three stories about odd classes offered at Ivy League schools.

More questions for the panel: An Oil Company by Any Other Name, What Makes You LOL in Pakistan, and A Book You Can Pretty Much Judge by Its Cover.

Carl reads three news-related limericks: Painting Over Global Warming, The Joy of Libertarian Cooking, and Parents Go Back to Square One.

All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.

Our panelists predict what the new rover will find on Mars.