Low Scoring Shows

List of shows in which the panel total score is less than 30. The list does not include the 20th Anniversary show that had a unique format for the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment.

Total Score	Show Date	Location	Host	Scorekeeper	Panelists	Guest
21	2002-11-23	Hawaii Theatre (Honolulu, HI)	Peter Sagal	Carl Kasell	Sue Ellicott: 11 Adam Felber: 8 Paula Poundstone: 2	Paul Theroux: 1
25	2008-03-29	UC Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures (Santa Barbara, CA)	Peter Sagal	Carl Kasell	Kyrie O'Connor: 13 Paul Provenza: 10 Paula Poundstone: 2	Fannie Flagg: 2
25	2002-12-07	Chicago Public Radio/WBEZ (Chicago, IL)	Peter Sagal	Carl Kasell	Sue Ellicott: 11 P.J. O'Rourke: 7 Adam Felber: 7	Steve Schirripa: 1
25	2001-05-05	Chicago Public Radio/WBEZ (Chicago, IL)	Peter Sagal	Carl Kasell	Charlie Pierce: 11 Adam Felber: 7 Roxanne Roberts: 7	Linda Wertheimer: 1
25	2000-11-11	Chicago Public Radio/WBEZ (Chicago, IL)	Peter Sagal	Carl Kasell	Charlie Pierce: 12 Roy Blount, Jr.: 7 Sue Ellicott: 6	Armistead Maupin: 2
25	2000-11-04	Chicago Public Radio/WBEZ (Chicago, IL)	Peter Sagal	Carl Kasell	Adam Felber: 10 Roxanne Roberts: 8 Patt Morrison: 7	Gene Sperling: 0
25	2000-05-27	Chicago Public Radio/WBEZ (Chicago, IL)	Peter Sagal	Carl Kasell	Sue Ellicott: 10 Adam Felber: 9 Charlie Pierce: 6	Nina Totenberg: 2
26	2019-02-16	Chase Auditorium (Chicago, IL)	Peter Sagal	Bill Kurtis	Luke Burbank: 13 Alonzo Bodden: 9 Maeve Higgins: 4	Matt Smith: 2
27	2020-08-29	Home/Remote Studios	Peter Sagal	Bill Kurtis	Mo Rocca: 13 Alonzo Bodden: 8 Maeve Higgins: 6	Cecily Strong: 3
27	2013-03-16	Chase Auditorium (Chicago, IL)	Peter Sagal	Carl Kasell	Faith Salie: 12 Paula Poundstone: 11 Bobcat Goldthwait: 4	Huey Lewis: 2
27	2003-02-08	Chicago Public Radio/WBEZ (Chicago, IL)	Peter Sagal	Carl Kasell	Mo Rocca: 10 Paula Poundstone: 9 Roy Blount, Jr.: 8	Arianna Huffington: 0
27	2000-06-24	Chicago Public Radio/WBEZ (Chicago, IL)	Peter Sagal	Carl Kasell	Roxanne Roberts: 11 Roy Blount, Jr.: 10 Adam Felber: 6	Diane Rehm: 2
27	2000-06-17	Chicago Public Radio/WBEZ (Chicago, IL)	Peter Sagal	Carl Kasell	Charlie Pierce: 13 Sue Ellicott: 8 Roy Blount, Jr.: 6	Lisa Simeone: 1
28	2016-10-22	Rochester Auditorium Theatre (Rochester, NY)	Peter Sagal	Bill Kurtis	Adam Felber: 12 Paula Poundstone: 9 Amy Dickinson: 7	Garth Fagan: 2
28	2001-12-29	Chicago Public Radio/WBEZ (Chicago, IL)	Peter Sagal	Carl Kasell	Sue Ellicott: 11 Charlie Pierce: 11 Adam Felber: 6	Madeleine Albright: 0
28	2001-12-08	Chicago Public Radio/WBEZ (Chicago, IL)	Peter Sagal	Jean Cochran	Charlie Pierce: 12 Sue Ellicott: 9 Adam Felber: 7	Simon Callow: None
28	2001-10-20	Chicago Public Radio/WBEZ (Chicago, IL)	Peter Sagal	Carl Kasell	Roy Blount, Jr.: 11 Charlie Pierce: 10 Sue Ellicott: 7	Rodney Yee: 1
28	2001-03-10	Morse Auditorium (Boston, MA)	Peter Sagal	Carl Kasell	Roy Blount, Jr.: 14 Charlie Pierce: 7 Sue Ellicott: 7	Tom and Ray Magliozzi: 3
28	2000-12-09	Chicago Public Radio/WBEZ (Chicago, IL)	Peter Sagal	Carl Kasell	Charlie Pierce: 12 Adam Felber: 9 Sue Ellicott: 7	Jane and Michael Stern: 2
28	2000-09-30	Chicago Public Radio/WBEZ (Chicago, IL)	Peter Sagal	Carl Kasell	Roy Blount, Jr.: 10 Sue Ellicott: 9 Charlie Pierce: 9	Brooke Gladstone: 1
29	2016-07-16	Chase Auditorium (Chicago, IL)	Peter Sagal	Bill Kurtis	Roy Blount, Jr.: 11 Jessi Klein: 10 Brian Babylon: 8	Julian Castro: 2
29	2015-12-12	Chase Auditorium (Chicago, IL)	Peter Sagal	Bill Kurtis	Roy Blount, Jr.: 13 Luke Burbank: 10 Neko Case: 6	Jacques Pépin: 2
29	2010-07-03	Chase Auditorium (Chicago, IL)	Peter Sagal	Carl Kasell	Paula Poundstone: 12 P.J. O'Rourke: 10 Julia Sweeney: 7	Molly Ringwald: 2
29	2001-05-12	Chicago Public Radio/WBEZ (Chicago, IL)	Peter Sagal	Carl Kasell	Charlie Pierce: 14 Adam Felber: 12 Paula Poundstone: 3	Andrew Sullivan: 1
29	2000-10-21	Chicago Public Radio/WBEZ (Chicago, IL)	Peter Sagal	Carl Kasell	Sue Ellicott: 12 Roxanne Roberts: 9 Adam Felber: 8	Jim Nayder: 0
Total Score	Show Date	Location	Host	Scorekeeper	Panelists	Guest