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March 31, 2001
Welcome to Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!, NPR's weekly news quiz
program. Find out how well you know your news by playing the interactive
online version below. You can also listen to this week's show.
Who's Carl This Time?
Quote 1 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "And to those who say that I am dumb, lazy, inarticulate, and worst of all, a puppet who allows Dick Cheney to make all the important decisions... to those people I say... Dick, what do I say?"
That's our paraphrased reconstruction of a very public plea to Dick Cheney... who turned to Mr. Cheney for help last Saturday night?
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "The tenor of those questions were more or less, 'what's it feel like to be an angel walking among us?" You know, 'is it difficult putting on a halo every day before you go to work?'"
That's the National Journal's Richard Lowry's take on how the press treats a certain political figure... who's name was much in the news this week... who's being portrayed as an angel because of his reform crusade?
HINT: We have to admit we were a bit starstruck by him when he appeared on our show.
HINT: His name is one half of the big noise on Capitol Hill this week.
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "Dogs are dogs. They do the same thing everywhere... It's just that there are no dogs in China because they eat them."
That was Claude Bebear, of Paris, France, escalating a war of words between Paris and Beijing over what?
HINT: Whoever wins this fight will host an event called: "Competitive Foreigner Bashing."
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Answer 3
Who's Carl: Section II
Quote 4 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "I ordered 10,000 tubes last week. My distributor called and said, "Hey, Doc, are you sure there isn't a comma in the wrong place?"
That's dentist Ted Aspes of Smyrna, Georgia. This week, he made good on a pledge to give every child in his town a tube of toothpaste if any one of his former patients won a what?
HINT: She didn't win a television, because her speech was too long.
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Answer 4
Quote 5 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "I just get up when it's light out and quit when it's dark. Makes no difference to me."
That's Phil Gehl of Batesville, Indiana quoted in USA Today opting out of the state's big battle over whether to do something the rest of the country does this weekend... what?
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Answer 5
Quote 6 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL:
"I'm not doing it as serious as Prince, [but] I just want something fresh... I'm rockin' with P. Diddy now."
HINT: He came very close to being called Prisoner 75032 in the New York State penal system.
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (14.4 | 28.8)
All you folks love your airtime for free,
Yet our towers you don't like to see.
Since the outcry's vociferous,
We're teleconiferous.
Our antenna is masked as a __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (14.4 | 28.8)
We'll go back to what we do right.
So no Martha Stewart tonight.
"Attention, Kmart shoppers,
We've got bargain whoppers
Just follow the flashing __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (14.4 | 28.8)
We monks are dead broke, but we mask it.
Now carpentry fills our bread basket.
We used to grow cereal.
Our new crop's funereal.
We make a fine, hand-crafted __________.
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Answer 3
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