Lightning Fill the void

PETER SAGAL, ​​HOST:

Now on our last game, Lightning Fill In The Blank. Each of our players will have 60 seconds to answer as many questions as possible. Every good answer is now worth two points. Bill, can you give us the scores?

BILL KURTIS: Paula and Adam each have two, and Faith has three.

SAGAL: Okay. We returned a coin. Paula chose to go second. So, Adam, you are the first. The clock will begin when I start your first question. Fill in the holes. On Wednesday, the Senate adopted a symbolic vote condemning President Trump's whites on Chinese goods

ADAM BURKE: Rates

SAGAL: Right …

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SAGAL: This Week President Trump pardoned two breeders accused of lighting fires on public property

BURKE: Is it Oregon?

SAGAL: Yes.

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SAGAL: After more than 20 years of war, Eritrea and the whites agreed to a peace agreement on Monday.

BURKE: Ethiopia?

SAGAL: Yes. Tuesday …

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SAGAL: … The Trump administration cut $ 20 million in grants that help people get a vacuum blanket.

BURKE: Obamacare.

SAGAL: Right. New footage …

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SAGAL: … From the International Space Station shows that the Earth now has a white so large that we can see it from the space .

BURKE: Crisis of the forties

SAGAL: No, that – well …

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SAGAL: Somehow because it is a giant drawing of. a woman that we drew in the mud

(LAUGH) [19659003] SAGAL: After admitting to having used a racial insult during a conference call, the founder of the empty pizza chain resigned from his post of president

BURKE: Papa John's …

SAGAL: Agreement. On Thursday …

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SAGAL: … NASA admitted that 40 years ago, they may have accidentally destroyed evidence of life on white.

BURKE: Mars?

SAGAL

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SAGAL: This week, a Canadian woman accused of stealing a car …

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SAGAL: … Near an airport is excused

BURKE: She thought it was her car?

SAGAL: No, she thought it was a rental car.

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SAGAL: After arriving at the airport, the An elderly woman rented a black Nissan. But thanks to the confusion, she accidentally stole an identical car whose owner had left his keys in touch. Nobody realized the mistake until two weeks later, when the woman returned the car, completely unaware that she was now a criminal.

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SAGAL: Happy ending. Everything is straightened. The woman inspired the new hit game PlayStation 4, Grandma Theft Auto

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SAGAL: Bill, Adam did well, I think, is not it …

KURTIS: He did very well. Six on the right, 12 more points. He has a total of 14 in mind at the moment …

SAGAL: All right. Okay, Paula

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SAGAL: Paula. You are next. Fill the void …

PAULA POUNDSTONE: Yeah.

SAGAL: After emails leaked from him boasting VIP treatment, a judge ordered that Trump's partner be moved to another prison.

POUNDSTONE: Manafort

SAGAL: That's right. On Sunday …

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SAGAL: … A white murderer in California crossed the border in Oregon.

POUNDSTONE: Fire.

SAGAL: Right. This week …

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SAGAL: … Starbucks announced that it would completely remove the whites by 2020.

POUNDSTONE: Straws.

SAGAL: Okay. On Monday …

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SAGAL: … The Senate Majority Leader Was Driven From A Restaurant By Protesters

POUNDSTONE: McConnell

SAGAL : Agree. A man …

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SAGAL: … In Florida, arrested by police for driving under the influence, told the police that he was not drinking not driving.

POUNDSTONE: He only drank when he was at the stop signs.

SAGAL: You are absolutely right.

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SAGAL: On Thursday, the empty social media site began to purge millions of fake and suspicious accounts.

POUNDSTONE: Twitter.

SAGAL: Yes. This week …

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SAGAL: … Kim Jong Un skipped a meeting with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in order to drop.

POUNDSTONE: Inflating a balloon of

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SAGAL: No. For – he skipped the visit with the secretary of state to visit a potato farm.

POUNDSTONE: Oh, agree …

SAGAL: A burglar in Washington called the police on himself …

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SAGAL: .. After he broke into a white man and could not escape.

POUNDSTONE: Oh. He broke into one of these escape rooms …

SAGAL: That's exactly right.

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SAGAL: Roy – Rye Wardlaw broke into the escape room after ransacking the place in search of valuables, tried to leave in the same way. But he broke the handle. The door would not move. And then, he tried to leave the front, but he could not find how to unlock the entrance. Panicked, he called the police for help. The agents stopped him as soon as they arrived. But instead of taking a photo ID, they just did ask with one of those signs that said "I was beaten by the NW Escape Room Experience"

[19659003] SAGAL: Bill, how did Paula on our quiz?

KURTIS: Attention. Paula is on fire. She had seven right …

FAITH SALIE: Wow.

KURTIS: … Fourteen more points, 16 in total, taking the lead …

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SAGAL: How many times does faith have to win?

KURTIS: Seven …

SAGAL: Oh, my God. Here we are, Faith. This is for the game. Fill the holes. Thursday, two secretaries of the British Cabinet resigned about the project of white

SALIE: Brexit

SAGAL: Yes. Tuesday …

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SAGAL: … The United Kingdom fined more than $ 600,000 a social media site for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

SALIE: Facebook.

SAGAL: It's true. Thanks to …

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SAGAL: … Dangers posed by mbadive floods, this week, 2 million people in white have been ordered to evacuate their houses.

SALIE: Japan. [19659003] SAGAL: That's right. Late …

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SAGAL: … On Wednesday, Elon Musk announced that he was going to help solve the problem of water in white.

SALIE: Flint, Mich.

SAGAL: Yes …

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SAGAL: A man in California was shocked this week when he found a blanking bear on his property.

SALIE: Play pingpong.

SAGAL: No SAGAL: On Thursday, demolition crews demolished iconic Florida launch towers.

SALIE: Oh, Cape Canaveral.

SAGAL: Yes. This week …

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SAGAL: … British actors have complained that …

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SAGAL: … Members of the public have ruined their performance of "Titanic The Musical" by striking

SALIE: Yelling attention, there is a glacier.

SAGAL: No.

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SALIE: Oh.

SAGAL: Looking at the world

SALIE: Oh.

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POUNDSTONE: Oh, that's terrible.

SAGAL: English penalty shootout against Colombia, one of the highlights of this year's World Cup. It also coincided with the production of "Titanic The Musical" by the Nottingham Royal Theater. Thus, during the show, the actors said that the audience clearly watched the match on their phone, a woman even going so far as to yell yes each time …

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SAGAL:. .. England scored an objective goal. And if that was not enough, during the culminating scene when the Titanic hit an iceberg and began to sink into the sea, a member of the public jumped out of his seat and accused the boat of flop.

(LAUGHTER) [19659003] BURKE: Draw me as your French players …

SAGAL: Yes.

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SAGAL: Bill, did Faith do well enough to win?

KURTIS: Not quite. [19659003] SAGAL: Aw …

KURTIS: Paula Poundstone is our winner this week …

POUNDSTONE: Oh my god.

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