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Sandwich (Replacement) Monday: Soylent

October 27, 2014 • For this week's Sandwich Monday, we try Soylent, a meal-replacement substance. It's the thing to eat if you hate eating.

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Take This Job And Puzzle It

October 26, 2014 • A series of sentences will be given; each one contains a blank. Put the name of an occupation in the blank to complete the sentence in a punny way.

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Florence Henderson attends the LA Times Festival of Books in April 2012.

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Not My Job: Brady Bunch's Florence Henderson Gets Quizzed On Weird Science

October 25, 2014 • For decades, Florence Henderson, who presided over the Brady Bunch, was America's perfect Mom. We'll ask Henderson three questions about the Ig Nobels — awarded for real, if ridiculous, research.

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Accentuate The Positive

October 23, 2014 • What do Beyoncé, André the Giant, and a soufflé have in common? Why, the accents in their names, bien sûr! The answers in this final round will be words, names, or phrases containing an accent.

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It's A Snap

October 23, 2014 • This game has attitude — each answer is a word or phrase containing the word "snap." But extra coordination is required: substitute an actual *snap* of your fingers where it appears in the answer.

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Very Confused TV Guide

October 23, 2014 • Have you ever been perplexed by the on-screen guide descriptions of your favorite TV shows? Us too. We serve up descriptions of shows, whose titles have been taken perhaps a bit too literally.

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IQ Test

October 23, 2014 • These words, names, and phrases contain the letters "IQ" consecutively somewhere inside of them. Does this somewhat oblique game pique your interest?

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Presidential Keywords

October 23, 2014 • U.S. Presidents spend years in office, but their tenure is often remembered in the mind of the public by a singular moment or trait. Given a keyword, you tell us which President it describes.

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Lake Street Dive: I Love The '90s

October 23, 2014 • As children of the '90s, the band's members best a "Name That Tune" round of the era's radio hits by correcting Jonathan Coulton's slightly wrecked lyrics. Plus: a performance of "Bad Self Portraits."

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Lake Street Dive: My Beautiful Balloon

October 23, 2014 • The soul-pop quartet behind Bad Self Portraits reveals its extraordinary talent of covering pop songs using, yes, party balloons. Can you guess the titles of these squeaky melodies?

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Celebrity Wedding Announcements

October 23, 2014 • How do you make a celebrity marriage work? We think it's all in the name. Imagine nuptials between two celebs whose paired surnames create a phrase: Keith Urban plus John Legend = Urban-Legend!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Jeff Goldblum attends the premiere of The Walker during the 57th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2007 in Berlin, Germany.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!"

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