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* '''Who's Carl This Time?''': Carl reads quotes from the news and the caller must identify who said them.
* '''Bluff The Listener''': The panelists each read an odd "news story". Only one panelist has a true story, and the listener guesses who.
* '''Not My Job''': At the midpoint of every episode, a celebrity call-in guest is brought in and quizzed about a topic far outside their expertise (except when they had [[The Areas of My Expertise|John Hodgman]] on, of course; [[Jeopardy (TV)!|Ken Jennings]] also confounded them). [[Stephen King]], for instance, got questions about [[Tastes Like Diabetes|Teletubbies and the like]], while [[Lewis Black]] stumbled through three questions on Miss Manners. And, more recently, [[Leonard Nimoy]] had to answer questions about not being the ''other'' Spock (Dr. Benjamin, child care specialist) either.
* '''Listener Limerick Challenge''': Carl reads most of a news-inspired limerick; the caller has to complete it.
* '''Lightning Fill-In-The-Blank''': The final "speed round" in which panelists quickly go through questions on the rest of the week's news.
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'''Carl Kasell''': Damn straight, Peter! }}
* [[Golden Snitch]]: There are only seven to nine points available before the speed round; in Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank each panelist has eight questions worth two points each.
* [[A Good Name for Aa Rock Band]]: After a story about a lack of good names for new rock bands, Peter Sagal suggests some names based on the week's news, including: The Joe Lieberman Experience, Bart Stupak Shakur, Mega-Death Panel, and Joe Biden and the Big Folk-ing Deals.
* [[Gretzky Has the Ball]]: During the 2010 World Cup, panelist Tom Bodett admitted that he knows nothing about Soccer, which becomes a problem when his son asks him about the game.
{{quote| '''Son:''' Why are they upset?<br />
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* [[Self-Deprecation]]: "Visit [http://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/ our blog] which has been called 'sophomoric', 'a threat to NPR's integrity', and 'reason to review our intern hiring process.'"
** When teenage fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson played Not My Job she was asked questions about "stuff old people like". One of them was about NPR.
* [[Shout -Out]]: One week after their somewhat unflattering portrayal of fans of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''<ref>[[Fox News Channel]]'s ''Red Eye'' segment the same week was actually less mean, if also pretty boring.</ref>, they brought on a fan and former ''Wait, Wait'' intern for a brief interview, and used the show as the basis for that week's "Not My Job" questions... for guest contestant [[Bill Clinton]] (who got them all right, but they weren't very hard either).
* [[Small Reference Pools]]: Averted, naturally -- this ''is'' NPR, after all.
* [[Sound to Screen Adaptation]]: [[CBS]] ordered a pilot for a television version.
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