PETER SAGAL, Host:
Well, it's time to move on to 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 is now worth two points. Korva, can you give us the scores?
KORVA COLEMAN, Host:
Peter, Mo is in the lead with three points. Amy and Maz are tied for second place with two points each.
SAGAL: All right. We have flipped a coin. Maz has elected to go first. Here we go. The clock will start when I begin your first question. Fill in the blank. On Monday, a judge sentenced former house majority leader blank to three years in prison.
MAZ JOBRANI: DeLay.
SAGAL: Right.
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SAGAL: Former Godfather Pizza CEO Herman Cain announced he may seek the GOP nomination for blank in 2012.
JOBRANI: Presidents.
SAGAL: Right.
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SAGAL: Unable to compete with Facebook, on Tuesday rival social network blank laid off half of its employees.
JOBRANI: MySpace.
SAGAL: Right.
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SAGAL: To cover a budget shortfall, Illinois legislators voted to increase the state blank tax by 66 percent.
JOBRANI: Cigarette tax.
SAGAL: No, income tax. Yeah.
JOBRANI: Income tax.
SAGAL: A Montana man with outstanding arrest warrants gave police a fake name during a traffic stop, but he was arrested anyway because blank.
JOBRANI: He gave a criminal name?
SAGAL: Yeah, the fake name was a real person also wanted by police.
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SAGAL: F. Lee Bailey released a new document that he says can prove once and for all that blank did not kill his wife, Nicole Brown.
JOBRANI: OJ.
SAGAL: Right.
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SAGAL: In an announcement at the Detroit Auto Show, the title of North American Car of the Year was awarded to Chevy's electric car, the blank.
JOBRANI: Electa.
SAGAL: No, the Volt.
JOBRANI: Oh.
SAGAL: A man in Taiwan sued his neighbors, claiming that he had suffered emotional stress and injuries because blank.
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JOBRANI: Because he hates Taiwan.
SAGAL: Because their bird insulted him.
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SAGAL: Wang Han-chin had complained about his noisy neighbors, so when their mynah bird starting screaming that he was quote "a clueless big mouthed idiot" whenever he left his house, he knew it was no accident. Police declined to prosecute, in part because he accusations couldn't be proven and in part because further investigation revealed that Wang was, in fact, a clueless bigmouthed idiot.
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SAGAL: Korva, how did Maz do on our quiz?
COLEMAN: Well, Maz got five correct answers, Peter, for ten more points. He has 12 points now and he is in the lead.
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SAGAL: Well done.
JOBRANI: Not for long.
SAGAL: All right, Amy, you are up next. Fill in the blank. This week soldiers and leaders in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan got an unannounced visit from blank.
AMY DICKINSON: Gates.
SAGAL: No, Joe Biden, literally. On Tuesday, the Arizona legislature unanimously passed a bill to prevent blanks from being disrupted by protesters.
DICKINSON: Funerals.
SAGAL: Right.
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SAGAL: La Nina is being blamed for the inland tsunami and intense flooding currently hitting cities in inland blank.
DICKINSON: Australia.
SAGAL: Right.
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SAGAL: In a letter to supporters, Texas Senator blank announced she would not run for reelection in 2012.
DICKINSON: Kay Bailey Hutchison.
SAGAL: Yeah, Kay Bailey Hutchison.
DICKINSON: Okay.
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SAGAL: A vulture captured in Saudi Arabia last week will be released now that authorities have determined it is not blank.
DICKINSON: Carrying a weapon.
SAGAL: It's not an Israeli spy.
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SAGAL: New financial backers agreed this week to finance Hugh Hefner's plans to take blank private.
DICKINSON: Playboy.
SAGAL: Right.
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SAGAL: Instead of their annual interview with the Newbery and Caldecott Award winners, "The Today Show" featured "Jersey Shore" author blank.
DICKINSON: Snooki.
SAGAL: Right.
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SAGAL: A new study shows you can improve your driving by blanking.
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DICKINSON: You can improve your driving by staying toward the center of the road.
SAGAL: No. You can improve your driving by talking on your cell phone.
DICKINSON: Oh.
SAGAL: Research from the University of Chicago and the London School of Economics suggests drivers are more likely to slow down and stay alert if they're on the phone. It turns out, cell phones make everything safer. Football players talking on their cell phones are less likely to get tackled.
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SAGAL: And if you talk on a cell phone during sex you cannot get pregnant.
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SAGAL: Korva, how did Amy do on our quiz?
COLEMAN: Amy had five correct answers for ten more points. She now has 12 points and she is tied with Maz for the lead.
SAGAL: All right.
JOBRANI: Oh my.
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SAGAL: So how many then does Mo need to take it?
COLEMAN: Mo needs five more correct answers to win the game.
SAGAL: All right, here we go, Mo. This is up for the game. The Justice Department subpoenaed Twitter this week for information related to blank.
MO ROCCA: Related to homeland security.
SAGAL: No, it's related to WikiLeaks.
ROCCA: Oh my goodness.
SAGAL: The European Union and China turned down invitations to tour the nuclear facilities in blank.
ROCCA: In Iran.
SAGAL: Right.
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SAGAL: On Thursday, a tanker transporting 2,400 tons of acid capsized on the Rhine in blank.
ROCCA: Well, the Rhine is in Germany.
SAGAL: It is.
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SAGAL: On Tuesday, new Supreme Court justice blank delivered her first judicial opinion.
ROCCA: Oh, the woman who looks like Rachel Dratch.
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ROCCA: It's Supreme Court Justice Lori Klein. That's the girl she looks like that I went to junior high with.
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SAGAL: It's Elena Kagan.
ROCCA: On my goodness.
SAGAL: It's Elena Kagan. A judge in California ruled that Conrad Murray, the doctor for blank will be tried for involuntary manslaughter.
ROCCA: Michael Jackson.
SAGAL: Right.
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SAGAL: In a blow to preteens everywhere, the final episode of the Miley Cyrus show blank aired over the weekend.
ROCCA: "Hannah Montana."
SAGAL: Right.
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SAGAL: Police in England raided a garage suspected of housing a notorious drug den, but instead discovered it housed blanks.
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ROCCA: A lion den.
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SAGAL: Close, guinea pigs.
ROCCA: Oh.
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SAGAL: Police helicopters noticed hotspots on Pamela Hardcastle's garage that could only mean one thing, marijuana growing. They promptly raided the home, only to find Kenny and Simon, two extremely freaked out guinea pigs basking in the warmth of their personal heat lamps.
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SAGAL: Korva, did Mo do well enough to win?
COLEMAN: Well, Mo needed five correct answers to win. He had four.
SAGAL: Oh my god.
ROCCA: Can the Supreme Court help me out?
COLEMAN: So that means Amy and Maz are this week's co-winners.
SAGAL: Well done.
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SAGAL: In just a minute, we're going to ask our panelists what we will find when all that snow melts. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.