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PETER SAGAL, HOST:

We want to remind everybody they can join us most weeks back at the Chase Bank Auditorium in Chicago. For tickets and more information, you can go to wbez.org, and you can also find a link at our website, waitwait.npr.org.

Right now, panel, time for you to answer some questions about the week's news. Roy, after years of getting by on word of mouth, one big organization has decided it's finally time to try their first-ever marketing campaign to attract new customers. Who are we talking about?

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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 Roy Blount, Jr., Faith Salie and Adam Felder. And here again is your host at the Straz Center in Tampa, Florida, Peter Sagal.

PETER SAGAL, HOST:

Thank you, Carl.

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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 Adam Felber, Faith Salie and Roy Blount, Jr. And here again is your host, at the Straz Center in Tampa, Florida, Peter Sagal.

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PETER SAGAL, HOST:

Thank you, Carl. Thank you everybody. Thank you so much. In just a minute, Carl says brother can you spare a rhyme. It is our Listener Limerick Challenge.

ADAM FELBER: Have we never done that one?

SAGAL: We have.

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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 Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa, Florida, Peter Sagal.

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PETER SAGAL, HOST:

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PETER SAGAL, HOST:

Now, onto our final game, Lightning Fill in the Blank. Each of our players will have sixty seconds in which to answer as many fill in the blank questions as he or she can. Each correct answer now worth two points. Carl, can you give us the scores?

CARL KASELL, HOST:

Roy Blount, Jr. has the lead, Peter. He has four points. Faith Salie has three; Adam Felber, two.