St. Martin's Press You Definitely Need This Condo Pony, And Other Products From 'SkyMaul' October 21, 2014 "The Hot Dog Clock" and "The Forever Diaper" are also must-haves. A San Francisco comedy group is once again poking fun at the in-flight catalog SkyMall. Listen Loading… 4:07 Download Playlist
It's smiling at you. I guess it doesn't know what's about to happen. NPR hide caption itoggle caption NPR The Salt Sandwich Monday: The Primanti Bros. Pitts-burger October 20, 2014 For this week's Sandwich Monday, we try a sandwich from the famous Primanti Bros. of Pittsburgh.
Sunday Puzzle NPR hide caption itoggle caption NPR Sunday Puzzle Time To Flex Those Math Muscles October 19, 2014 Get ready to crunch some numbers from the works of the late Martin Gardner, longtime "Mathematical Games" columnist for Scientific American. Listen Loading… 6:15 Download Playlist
Sean Gallup/Getty Images Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! Not My Job: Actor Jeff Goldblum Plays A Game Called 'Your Fly Is Open' October 18, 2014 Goldblum starred in a 1986 movie called The Fly so we've invited him to answer three questions about zippers. Listen Loading… 10:23 Download Playlist
NPR Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! Wait Wait ... Don't Show Me! Behind The Scenes Of The NPR News Quiz October 14, 2014 Thanks to the magic of radio, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! listeners aren't usually privy to what goes on behind the scenes at the NPR News Quiz. Watch at your own risk. It's not pretty.
Sunday Puzzle NPR hide caption itoggle caption NPR Sunday Puzzle Coming To TV This Fall: Anagrams! October 12, 2014 Every answer is the name of a popular prime-time TV series from this century, on either broadcast or cable. Identify the shows from their anagrams. Listen Loading… 5:59 Download Playlist
Ask Me Another Battle of The Silver Screen Sexes October 9, 2014 This final round game is all about movies with either "man" or "woman" in the title, like "Rain Man" and "Scent of a Woman." Who will be the last man or woman standing? Listen Loading… 4:32 Download Playlist
Ask Me Another Retro Is The New Retro October 9, 2014 Here's a linguistic oddity for you: Retronyms are names for things that have to be altered after newer versions appear. What retronym was needed after the electric guitar arrived? Acoustic guitar. Listen Loading… 6:23 Download Playlist
Ask Me Another Disconsolate Consonants October 9, 2014 Why are these consonants so gloomy? Because they're all alone. Each answer is a word with just one consonant. For example, the letter D is surrounded by vowels in a French word meaning goodbye: adieu. Listen Loading… 5:10 Download Playlist
Ask Me Another Instrument Man October 9, 2014 Sing us a song you're the... Glockenspiel Man? House musician Jonathan Coulton sings Billy Joel's Piano Man with the lyrics rewritten to be about a musical dude jamming out on other instruments. Listen Loading… 7:07 Download Playlist
Ask Me Another It's All Swedish To Me October 9, 2014 In this game we honor the best cook in television history: The Swedish Chef from The Muppets. All the answers must be repeated three times in his signature accent and will rhyme with "bork-bork-bork!" Listen Loading… 6:07 Download Playlist
Gail Simmons says being a food expert is both a blessing and a curse. To this day, no one invites her over for dinner. Melanie Dunea hide caption itoggle caption Melanie Dunea Ask Me Another Random Questions With: Gail Simmons October 9, 2014 The Top Chef judge knows a thing or two about food. But where does she stand on breakfast for dinner vs. leftovers for breakfast? In this game, competing foods battle it out for Simmons' approval. Listen Loading… 11:23 Download Playlist
Gail Simmons can't always resist a little truffle oil... even if it's artificial. Courtesy of Gail Simmons hide caption itoggle caption Courtesy of Gail Simmons Ask Me Another Gail Simmons: A Top Chef's Duel October 9, 2014 Given Simmons' Top Chef judging cred, we ask her to turn her discerning palate toward taking down some trendy foods that have overstayed their welcome. She's still waiting for a good cake pop. Listen Loading… 8:37 Download Playlist
More convenient than a PB&J, unless you're eating them on an incline. NPR hide caption itoggle caption NPR The Salt Sandwich Monday: PB&J Balls October 6, 2014 For this week's Sandwich Monday, we try a new take on a brown-bag lunch classic. Welch's has re-engineered the PB&J in ball form.
Sunday Puzzle NPR hide caption itoggle caption NPR Sunday Puzzle This Week, A Pretty Lepidoptera October 5, 2014 The word cho means "beautiful" in Korean and "butterfly" in Japanese. Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase or name based around "cho." Listen Loading… 6:24 Download Playlist
Win McNamee/Getty Images Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! Not My Job: Secretary Of Energy Ernest Moniz Gets Quizzed On Bert October 4, 2014 We asked the nuclear physicist — who either goes by the nickname Ernie, or ought to — how much he knows about the Sesame Street character Bert. Listen Loading… 11:11 Download Playlist
And this is what we got. NPR hide caption itoggle caption NPR The Salt Sandwich Monday: The Pizza Cake September 29, 2014 For this week's Sandwich Monday, we try the Pizza Cake, which is a fancy way of saying "a bunch of pizzas stacked on top of each other."