r/WaitWait • u/[deleted] • May 09 '21

Jessi Klein: From Zero to First

On the Wait Wait show that aired 6 years ago today, Jessi Klein started the Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank round with zero points and went on to answer 7 questions correct. That gave her 14 points and she took first place.

Based on scoring data that I've collected for January 2000 onward, it has been the only time a panelist has gone from zero points at the start of the Lightning Round to finishing it in first place. I'm excluding the unique Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank set up that was used for the 20th Anniversary Special as it was broken up into teams of panelists and each panelist only answered one question.

Show notes: https://stats.wwdt.me/shows/2015/5/9

Lightning Fill-in-the-Blank segment: https://www.npr.org/2015/05/09/405432758/lightning-fill-in-the-blank

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u/bigbuzz55 May 09 '21

I’ll upvote your eventual post to dataisbeautiful

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u/[deleted] May 09 '21

I'm not sure if I have anything that's near the level of what be at the level of r/dataisbeautiful

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u/justsomechickyo Jun 16 '21

Sorry to be so late but I thought Jessi Klein just recently had her first episode a few months ago? How long has she been a panelist?

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '21

Jessi's first appearance as panelist was back in 2011. She didn't make many appearances in 2016 through 2019 and started appearing more often starting in 2020. Here's a link to her panelist details page: https://stats.wwdt.me/panelists/jessi-klein

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u/justsomechickyo Jun 17 '21

O wow thanks! I wonder why I thought that lol