PETER SAGAL, HOST:
Now on to our final game, Lightning Fill in the Blank. Each of our players will have 60 seconds in which to answer as many fill-in-the-blank questions as he or she can - each correct answer now worth 2 points. Bill, can you give us the scores?
BILL KURTIS: Faith has 4, Mo has 2 and Paula has 1.
PAULA POUNDSTONE: How was that possible?
SAGAL: I think there was some poaching.
MO ROCCA: Yeah, there was some poaching.
POUNDSTONE: How did I even get the one?
FAITH SALIE: Josh Groban took it.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: All right, Paula, you're in third place. You're up first. The clock will start when I begin your first question, fill in the blank. This week, an investigation said officers were justified in shooting one of the occupiers of a wildlife sanctuary in blank.
POUNDSTONE: Oregon?
SAGAL: Yes.
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SAGAL: On Sunday, former first lady and anti-drug advocate blank passed away at the age of 94.
POUNDSTONE: Nancy Reagan.
SAGAL: Yes indeed.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: On Monday, Denver Broncos quarterback blank officially retired from the NFL.
POUNDSTONE: Peyton Manning.
SAGAL: Right.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: In a sign that Americans are beginning to think differently about their health, the world's largest McDonald's is being closed to make room for blank.
POUNDSTONE: A gravesite.
SAGAL: An even larger McDonald's.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: On Wednesday, a Google-created artificial intelligence beat a world-champion player at blank.
POUNDSTONE: "Go?"
SAGAL: Yes.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: Following a drugstore robbery, police in Minneapolis posted a surveillance...
(SOUNDBITE OF GONG)
SAGAL: ...Photo of the robber and asked if anyone recognized his blank.
POUNDSTONE: If anybody recognized his - I don't know, on this show, I usually like to go with ferrets down his pants.
SAGAL: So close...
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: ...If anybody recognized his butt-crack.
POUNDSTONE: Oh yeah.
SAGAL: That's what they had. They had a picture...
POUNDSTONE: Wow.
SAGAL: ...Of his butt-crack. Nobody has yet been able to positively ID the robber's half-moon. When they do arrest someone, that's going to be one police lineup you do not want to miss.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Bill, how did Paula do on our quiz?
KURTIS: Paula, you got four right. You have 8 more points, so you now have a total of 9 and the lead.
SAGAL: All right...
KURTIS: You lead everybody.
(APPLAUSE)
SAGAL: OK, Mo, you are up next, fill in the blank. This week, former New York Mayor blank announced he would not be running for president after all.
ROCCA: Mike Bloomberg.
SAGAL: Right.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: On Monday, the Obama administration announced it would release data on the number of casualties caused by U.S. blank strikes.
ROCCA: Drones.
SAGAL: Yes.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: On Tuesday, the EU and Turkey agreed to a proposal to stem the flow of blanks into Europe.
ROCCA: Migrants.
SAGAL: Or refugees.
ROCCA: Refugees.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: On Thursday, California's Senate voted to raise the legal smoking to blank.
ROCCA: Twenty-one.
SAGAL: Yes.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: A tense four-hour standoff between Ohio police and an armed 75-year-old man ended when the man blanked.
ROCCA: Dropped dead.
SAGAL: No, fell asleep.
ROCCA: Oh.
SAGAL: This week, former president blank announced he no longer needs cancer treatment.
ROCCA: President Jimmy Carter.
SAGAL: Right.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: After she failed a drug test at the Australian Open, Nike suspended ties with Russian tennis star blank.
ROCCA: Oh, Maria Sharapova.
SAGAL: That's right.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: This week, an Australian beach town's attempt to put up a...
(SOUNDBITE OF GONG)
SAGAL: ...shark-proof barrier was delayed by blank.
ROCCA: An Australian beach town's attempt to put up a shark-proof barrier was delayed by meddling kangaroos.
SAGAL: No, delayed by a shark attack.
ROCCA: Oh, darn it.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: The government of Albany, Australia, announced plans to build a shark-proof swimming enclosure at the city's most-popular beach. Unfortunately, the grand opening this week was delayed when a shark swam through the open enclosure. The city's mayor says the attack is proof that a shark wall is necessary and promises not only to finish that shark wall but that he will make the sharks pay for it.
(LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE)
SAGAL: All right, how did Mo do, Bill?
KURTIS: Mo's chasing Paula - six right, 12 more points, total of 14. Now he has the lead.
POUNDSTONE: There it is.
SAGAL: All right...
(APPLAUSE)
SAGAL: So how many then does Faith need to win and keep the trophy here in New York?
KURTIS: OK, five to tie, six to win.
SAGAL: All right, here we go, Faith. This is for the game. On Tuesday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch withdrew from consideration for the open blank seat.
SALIE: Supreme Court.
SAGAL: Right.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: This week, a former militant leaked the personal information of over 20,000 members of blank to the media.
SALIE: ISIS.
SAGAL: Right.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: On Tuesday, China and South Korea tightened their sanctions against blank.
SALIE: North Korea.
SAGAL: Right.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: On Thursday, Iran rejected claims that a recent missile test violated the blank deal it reached with the U.S.
SALIE: Oh, weapons.
SAGAL: Yeah, well, nuclear weapons...
SALIE: Nuclear weapon.
(SOUNDBITE OF BELL)
SAGAL: This week, a newly-discovered species of spider in Australia was named blank.
SALIE: Scary.
SAGAL: No, it was named Brian - Brian the spider. Police in suburban Chicago pulled over a woman...
(SOUNDBITE OF GONG)
SAGAL: ...After they noticed she was driving with blank.
POUNDSTONE: Oh.
SALIE: Oh.
SAGAL: Oh.
SALIE: Paula knows this. She was driving with Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
SAGAL: No. She was driving...
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: ...With a 15-foot tree standing upright in the grill of her car.
ROCCA: Oh, I saw that.
SALIE: What?
SAGAL: And it was very funny.
SAGAL: Yes, it was.
ROCCA: I mean, yeah...
SAGAL: According to the officer on duty, as a trained traffic cop, he could immediately tell that the driver was intoxicated by the way she answered his question about the fact she was driving around with a 15-foot tree stuck in her bumper.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Bill...
ROCCA: It was a pine tree, so the car smelled great.
SAGAL: Of course. Bill, did faith do well enough to win?
KURTIS: Well, she got four write, 8 more points, 12 total.
POUNDSTONE: Uh-oh.
KURTIS: The answer is no. She's second...
(LAUGHTER)
KURTIS: ...And Mo's the winner.
SAGAL: Thank goodness.
(APPLAUSE)
SAGAL: Now, in just a minute, we're going to ask our panelists what will be the big thing to come out of the U.S.-Canada summit meeting that happened in Washington this week.
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