Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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PETER SAGAL, HOST:

Now, panel, what will Iran do with that drone? Peter Grosz?

PETER GROSZ: Well, they claim they're going to try to make it run again, but it's just going to end up sitting on blocks in their driveway.

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SAGAL: You know how it goes. Kyrie O'Connor?

KYRIE O'CONNOR: Well, no, no, no, they're going to install it in front of Isfahan VFW.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: And Charlie Pierce?

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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 Eastern Kentucky Center for the Arts in Richmond, Kentucky, Peter Sagal.

PETER SAGAL, HOST:

Thank you, Carl.

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PETER SAGAL, HOST:

Hey, if you've ever wondered what we look like, now is your chance to either be pleasantly surprised or horrified. We're doing our first ever TV special in a few weeks. It's WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME!'s year in review for 2011.

It's an hour long television special on BBC America, on Friday, December 23rd, and it will also be heard on your favorite public radio station that weekend. I know it will be a tough choice between Carl and Frost the Snowman, but Carl does not need no magic hat to talk.

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Carl reads three news-related limericks: Painting Over Global Warming, The Joy of Libertarian Cooking, and Parents Go Back to Square One.

All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.

Our panelists predict what the new rover will find on Mars.

Our panelists tell three stories about odd classes offered at Ivy League schools.

More questions for the panel: An Oil Company by Any Other Name, What Makes You LOL in Pakistan, and A Book You Can Pretty Much Judge by Its Cover.

Carl reads three quotes from the weeks news: Herman's Her-mistresses; I Love The '70s: Iran; and Onward to Mars!

Our panelists answer questions about the week's news: Rick Perry's trouble with numbers.

It's tough to have a famous parent, really hard to go into the same business, and almost impossible to create a brilliant career in your own right ... but that's exactly what singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash, daughter of Johnny Cash, has done.

Tavi Gevinson's fashion blog, The Style Rookie, is a must-see Web destination. She's been invited to runway shows all over the world and has written for and been profiled in magazines like The New Yorker and French Vogue. Oh, and by the way, she started blogging at age 11 ... which was four years ago. Gevinson has now launched a new Web magazine, RookieMag.com.

Jason Bateman is that rarest of creatures: a former child star who seems sane and successful. He starred in many '70s and '80s sitcoms, and of course, the classic Teen Wolf Too. He went on to play the nice-guy lead in Arrested Development, and also appeared in the movies Hancock, Juno, Horrible Bosses and The Change-Up.