PETER SAGAL, HOST:
Now it's time for 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 please give us the scores?
BILL KURTIS: Alonzo has 1. Amy has 3 and Adam has 4.
AMY DICKINSON: Whoa.
ADAM FELBER: What?
SAGAL: Here's the good news, Alonzo - you're in third place so you get to go first. The clock will start when I begin your first question. Fill in the blank. This week, the FBI announced that they had unlocked the San Bernardino shooter's blank.
ALONZO BODDEN: Iphone.
SAGAL: Right.
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SAGAL: A new report published in the journal Nature concluded that blanks could rise up to 6 feet by the end of the century?
BODDEN: Water levels?
SAGAL: Yeah, sea levels.
BODDEN: Water levels.
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SAGAL: On Monday, Fidel Castro criticized blank's trip to Cuba.
BODDEN: Barack Obama.
SAGAL: Right, exactly.
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SAGAL: In Las Vegas, fans who paid $2000 to meet Justin Bieber instead got to meet blank.
BODDEN: His publicist?
SAGAL: No, ay cardboard cutout of Justin Bieber.
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FELBER: How could they tell?
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SAGAL: This week, California put itself on track to be the first state to offer a $15 blank.
BODDEN: Minimum wage.
SAGAL: Right.
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SAGAL: A British women vacationing in Portugal had to be saved by a...
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SAGAL: ...Local fisherman after she blanked.
BODDEN: Drowned while fishing? I don't know.
SAGAL: No, she missed her cruise ship's departure and tried to swim for it.
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FELBER: They look like they're going slow.
SAGAL: The 65-year-old woman who was on a cruise with her husband had disembarked in the city of Funchal to do some shopping, as one does. But when she got back to the dock, the cruise had already set sail toward Lisbon. Undeterred, she dove into the ocean and swam for it. At about 1,500 feet from shore, she was picked up by a local fisherman and brought to the hospital for fatigue and hypothermia, which isn't nearly as bad as what she would've caught if she had just made it back to the cruise ship.
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BODDEN: Now, they're sure the husband had nothing to do with it?
SAGAL: Nothing to do with it.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: No, she's back. I'm sure of it. Let's go, captain.
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SAGAL: Bill, how did Alonzo do on our quiz today?
KURTIS: He got four right, 8 more points. He's in the lead right now with 9.
SAGAL: Well done.
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SAGAL: All right, Amy, you are up next. Here we go, fill in the blank. This week, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker endorsed blank for president.
DICKINSON: Ted Cruz?
SAGAL: Right.
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SAGAL: On Tuesday, a 4-4 tie in the Supreme Court upheld blank fees.
DICKINSON: Blockbuster late fees?
SAGAL: No.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Union fees. According to a report from the U.S. Geological Survey, thanks to drilling, Oklahoma is as prone to blank as California.
DICKINSON: Earthquakes.
SAGAL: Right.
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SAGAL: On Tuesday, the governor of Virginia vetoed a bill that would defund blank.
DICKINSON: Planned Parenthood?
SAGAL: Right.
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SAGAL: On Sunday, a misspelled Easter sign at a church in England proclaimed blank.
DICKINSON: He - he isn't risen?
SAGAL: No, it proclaimed Chris is risen.
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DICKINSON: Oh, it was so close.
SAGAL: You were. This week, Syracuse became the first number-10 seed to ever reach the Final Four of the blank.
DICKINSON: Of the NCAA basketball - wooo...
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DICKINSON: And the women - yeah. Sorry.
SAGAL: It's OK.
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SAGAL: On Thursday, five members of the U.S. women's national soccer team accused the sport's governing body of blank.
DICKINSON: Like, pay disparity.
SAGAL: Yeah, wage...
DICKINSON: Yeah.
SAGAL: ...Discrimination, very good.
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SAGAL: Runners at a marathon in China were given what they thought were energy bars...
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SAGAL: ...But quickly discovered that they were blank.
DICKINSON: They were diarrhea-making bars.
(LAUGHTER)
DICKINSON: I went there.
FELBER: Did you outsource that one to my 3-year-old?
SAGAL: No.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: No, they were given bars of soap.
(LAUGHTER)
FELBER: Oh.
SAGAL: So I don't know if you've ever run a race or a marathon, but you finish and they start handing you all these treats and snacks to replenish your fuel. And they handed out these energy bars. And the runners opened them up and took big bites of them. And it turns out they were in fact bars of soap.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: The organizers apologized for the switch and promised that next year, they'll make sure the soap is chocolate and peanut butter flavored.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Bill, how did Amy do on our quiz?
KURTIS: So she got five right, 10 more points. So she pulls ahead with 13 into the lead.
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SAGAL: Well done.
DICKINSON: Yeah.
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SAGAL: All right then, how many does Adam need to win?
KURTIS: He needs five to win.
SAGAL: Here we go, fill in the blank. This week, the Taliban took credit for the Easter bombing in blank.
FELBER: Pakistan.
SAGAL: Right.
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SAGAL: On Monday, the governor of Georgia vetoed a bill that would allow businesses to deny service to blank.
FELBER: Gay people.
SAGAL: Yes.
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SAGAL: This week, the Secret Service announced it was banning blanks from the GOP National Convention.
FELBER: Guns. Why?
SAGAL: Yes.
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SAGAL: A Texas man pursued by police was forced to rethink his escape plan when he hid from the cops in what turned out to be blank.
FELBER: A police car.
SAGAL: An alligator-infested lake.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: This week, hundreds of people lined up in order to be the first to order blank's newest electric car.
FELBER: Tesla.
SAGAL: Right.
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SAGAL: Best known for her Oscar-winning role in "The Miracle Worker" and for her eponymous show, actress blank passed away at 69.
FELBER: Patty Duke.
SAGAL: Indeed...
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SAGAL: ...And her identical cousin. The day after Met's pitcher Matt Harvey missed a Spring Training game due to a bladder infection...
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SAGAL: ...The New York Post ran the headline blank.
FELBER: No P (ph).
SAGAL: No. They ran the headline You've Got To Relieve.
FELBER: Oh, that's good.
SAGAL: Yeah.
(LAUGHTER)
DICKINSON: Yeah.
SAGAL: They also ran a lot of others, but how about Field Of Streams?
FELBER: Now that's good.
(LAUGHTER)
FELBER: Yeah, that's very good.
DICKINSON: Oh...
BODDEN: That would work.
DICKINSON: That's great, yeah.
FELBER: That's absolutely a good one.
SAGAL: Bill...
FELBER: Oh, I've got one for the Post should have gone with.
SAGAL: (Laughter) Yes, Adam.
FELBER: He's Out - Urine (ph).
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FELBER: (Unintelligible).
SAGAL: Adam, he's first in our hearts. But is he, in fact, this week, first in the score?
KURTIS: Adam squeezed out a win with 14.
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BODDEN: Good thing you trickled in that last one.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: This week, I'm going to write a letter complaining about us.
(LAUGHTER)
SAGAL: Well, it's true. Adam is number one. But now...
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FELBER: I am flushed with victory.
SAGAL: In just a bit, we're going to ask our panelists to predict what will be a surprising use of that new virtual reality technology that came out this week.
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