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[[caption-width-right:350:The ''Ask Me Another ''crew at The Bell House, their home-base venue in Gowanus, Brooklyn. [[labelnote:Left to right]]Josh Rogosin, Jonathan Coulton, Ophira Eisenberg, Jesse Baker, Eric Nuzum, John Asante, John Chaneski, Eleanor Kagan and Art Chung.[[/labelnote]]]]

What do you get when take the entire {{trivia}} section and dump it into a blender with brain teasers, a warm UsefulNotes/{{British pub|s}} atmosphere, family game night, a weekly {{special guest}}, host/comedienne Ophira Eisenberg, and the dulcet tones of in-house musician Music/JonathanCoulton? Creator/{{NPR}} thought they’d find out.

Ask Me Another is an hour-long radio quiz show co-produced once a week by NPR and WNYC[[note]]one of the NPR affiliates in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity[[/note]] where fans face off in various ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}''-style competitions, where the final prize (often involving a custom Rubik’s Cube and various items/favors) that the special guest (Very Important Puzzler) provides isn’t really the end goal.

Some of the many V.I.P.s who have appeared in the show includes:
* Creator/LewisBlack: Stand-up comedian and top-notch ranter
* Creator/BruceCampbell & Creator/LucyLawless: Promoting ''Series/AshVsEvilDead''
* Jeffrey Cranor & Joseph Fink: Creators of ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightvale''
* Creator/DavidCross: Who wound up playing against his wife Creator/AmberTamblyn
* Creator/NeilGaiman: Award-winning author of ''Literature/{{Coraline}}'', ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', and other fantasy fiction
* Elizabeth Gilbert: Bestselling author of ''Literature/EatPrayLove''
* Creator/JeffGoldblum: Actor known for playing David Levinson in ''Film/IndependenceDay''
* Creator/EllieKemper: Costar of ''Series/TheOfficeUS'', star of ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt''
* Bobby Lopez & Kristen Anderson-Lopez: Oscar-winning songwriters for ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013''
* Music/IngridMichaelson: Well-known indie pop singer
* Creator/JohnCameronMitchell: Creator of ''Theatre/HedwigAndTheAngryInch''
* Creator/DannyPudi: The actor who plays Abed Nadir on ''Series/{{Community}}''
* Mike Rowe: Host of ''Series/DirtyJobs''
* Adam Savage: The FunPersonified co-host of ''Series/MythBusters''
* Creator/DanSavage (no relation): Creator of the ''Savage Love'' sex advice column and ''Website/ItGetsBetterProject'' website
* Creator/AndySerkis: Voice actor for Gollum of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Film/TheHobbit'', and Caesar of ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' and ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes''
* Creator/RLStine: Bestselling author of the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' children’s series
* Creator/PatrickStewart: Check out his episode to hear him recite the lyrics to "[[Music/{{ACDC}} You Shook Me All Night Long]]" and "[[Music/TaylorSwift Blank Space]]" (as himself), [[Music/{{Toto}} "Africa"]] (as Creator/LaurenceOlivier) and "[[Music/SpiceGirls Wannabe]]" (as John Gielgud)
* Creator/GeorgeTakei: [[MemeticMutation "Oh my!"]]
* Music/TheyMightBeGiants: "They might be... [Ophira's] favorite band named after a conditional statement".
* Matthew Weiner: Creator of ''Series/MadMen''
* Music/WeirdAlYankovic: Who did vocals on a musical game paying tribute to David Bowie

When the pandemic forced them to discontinue the live shows, the program's format changed to be doing quiz games with pairs of call-in celebrities rather than with actual contestants. Score was rarely kept for these games, and winners were rarely declared. This change was intended to be temporary until they could do live shows again.

However, in June of 2021, the show announced [[https://twitter.com/NPRAskMeAnother/status/1407060645766443015?s=20 via Twitter]] that it would air its final episode in September of that year, coming to an end after nine years. It carried on in reruns for a few more months, before their ''final'' final show was a rerun of the final episode.

See also ''Radio/WaitWaitDontTellMe'', NPR's other game show.
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!! Tropes:
* AreYouSureYouWantToDoThat: From time to time, Ophira, Jonathan, or the Puzzle Guru John Chineski will hint that a contestant or V.I.P might want to reconsider their answer.
* BaitAndSwitch: Used during a game called ''Wrong!''. The point of the game was that Art Chung asked seemingly easy questions with trick answers, and each wrong answer would result in Jonathan Coulton singing "Wrong!" at the contestants. After establishing this formula for the duration of the game, the final question went down something like this:
--> '''Art:''' During what year did the War of 1812 take place?
--> '''Contestsnt:''' 1813?
--> '''Jonathan:''' Wrong!
--> '''Ophira:''' ...That actually did happen in 1812.
* UsefulNotes/TheBechdelTest: [[invoked]] [[http://n.pr/2kGgSu1 They based a game on their 02/17/17 show on the test.]] Contestants had a scene from a movie that unexpectedly allows it to pass the Bechdel test described to them and had to name the film. Answers included ''Film/DieHard'', ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', and ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff''.
* BonusRound: At the end of every episode (before the pandemic-induced format switch), the winners of each round face off against each other in the "Ask Me One More: Final Round" until [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne only one is left]].
* CensoredForComedy: The 26 January 2018 show had Creator/MaryWiseman as [[https://www.npr.org/2018/01/26/580401747/mary-wiseman-live-long-and-bleep?sc=tw the week's celebrity guest contestant]]. Referencing her ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' character Cadet Sylvia Tilly being the first canon ''Franchise/StarTrek'' character to use the f-word, the game bleeped out a particular word from a quotation and had Wiseman try to guess it.
-->'''Ophira Eisenberg:''' [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet "Oh [bleep], wherefore art thou [bleep]?"]]
* CrossOver: Peter Segel, from the fellow NPR show ''Radio/WaitWaitDontTellMe'' was the guest for the 05.03.14 episode. Ophira has also appeared on ''Wait, Wait'' as a guest.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: For the first few months Ophira Eisenberg would drop hints about the identity of the guest throughout the show instead of announcing it at the opening.
* FlatWhat: Delivered by guest Puzzle Guru [[Literature/AChristmasCarol Ebenezer Scrooge]] (played by Will Hines) during a game of mystery guest:
-->'''Scrooge:''' Do you, like - do you make ideas? Do you give - do you suggest ideas to people?\\
'''Guest:''' Yes.\\
'''Scrooge:''' What!
* FunnyAnsweringMachine: An occasional prize, typically when a famous voice actor/comedian is the Very Important Puzzler.
* GratuitousItalian: Music/JonathanCoulton, having studied the language while he was still in school, sprinkles it in when the plot calls for it.
* OccamsRazor: During a game where Ophira and Jonathan are given two objects holding the world record for largest of that object, and being asked to figure out which one is larger overall, the two are able to get every question correct simply by guessing which object could realistically be made on a larger scale. This trope is name-dropped by Greg Pliska after their third correct answer in a row.
--> '''Greg:''' You two seem to have figured out the Occam's Razor of this game.
* {{Retool}}: Midway through 2017, the format of the show was modified. Among the changes:
** The show opens with a very short comedy sketch between Ophira and Jonathan.
** Each episode has only 4 contestants instead of 10.
** Every pair of contestants plays two games instead of one, in a "best two out of three" format. Has been further modified as of late so that the contestant who moves on is simply the contestant with the most points from two games.
** If the contestants are tied in points, a short tiebreaker game is played.
** Ophira is able to spend more time chatting with contestants before each round. Ophira also now makes sure to mention each contestant's buzzer number (signified by the number of bell sounds each one makes).
** The Final Round dropped the "Ask Me One More" moniker and became a best of 15 format between the two winners instead of the spelling bee-style game with five.
** The Very Important Puzzler moniker was dropped in favor of the simpler "Special Guest".
** An additional host game, usually "Mystery Guest", is played before the Final Round.
*** As noted above, the show underwent an even larger retool in 2020 for the pandemic. It was intended to be temporary until they could do live shows with actual contestants again, but the show ended before the pandemic restrictions did.
* SelfDeprecation: Ophira, the token Canadian, often takes (and even supplies) potshots about her former home country.
** Jokes are often made at the expense of their status as a public radio show as well. One such moment happens during the 11.11.16 episode in a game where the answer to each question was a pun on a sports team name.
--> '''Ophira:''' Now because this is public radio, and sports are hard, you do not need to know the name of the city the team comes from to get the points.
* ShoutOut: Accidentally played straight by some contestants who unnecessarily use “What is…” when answering a question; this often prompts the response: “This isn’t ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}''” or "Would you like to rephrase your question in the form of an answer?".
* SmallReferencePools: Averted, naturally, given its audience are often people who listen to NPR on a regular basis.
* TakeThat: At the end of one game involving reading complaint emails the show had received, Ophira says they love to receive negative feedback and invites listeners to email them complaints... and then gives the email address for ''Radio/WaitWaitDontTellMe''.
* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: [[invoked]] {{Parodied}} by Creator/PatrickStewart in a live appearance. Sir Patrick is renowned for his ability to deliver awful dialogue with conviction worthy of a Shakespeare play, and in that episode the clues for one game consisted of Stewart reading snippets of pop song lyrics (e.g. "Wannabe" by Music/TheSpiceGirls) in Shakespearian style.
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