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April 7, 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: "The United States can't say, 'Oh... we were checking the cod fleet.'"
That's American University History professor Robert Beisner telling Salon.com why the U.S. doesn't have a lot of good excuses for what incident?
HINT: There ain't no cod in the South China sea.
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "To pretend that this is all we need would be like pouring a bottle of aspirin into a fetid swamp and pronouncing it purified."
That's former House Speaker Jim Wright in the Fort Worth Star Telegram poo-pooing the chances that a big bill passed this week will really solve the problem it's aimed at. What bill?
HINT: The fetid swamp is our political system.
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "Turning Bush into a loveable dolt might be the biggest gift to the GOP since thousands of Florida Jews cast their ballots for Pat Buchanan."
That's critic David Edlestein of Slate.com blaming something that premiered this week with making President Bush appear loveable and harmless... What?
HINT: One of these did wonders for the image of the Korean War.
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Answer 3
Who's Carl: Section II
Quote 4
CARL: "And I'll just tell you this: Until you've hunted a man, you haven't hunted yet. Because you need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter."
Who was claiming some rather extreme credentials as an outdoorsman this week.
HINT: Among those he's accused of hunting him: Reporters at the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
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Answer 4
Quote 5 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "This is part of what I do -- I circulate among politicians. Over a long period of time, I've met with political groups large and small, Democratic and Republican, Green Party, Mugwumps, you name it."
That's a man who found himself on the defensive this week after he unwittingly attended a Democratic fundraiser. Who was it?
HINT: Fortunately for his credibility, the gathered Democrats probably had no earthly idea what he was talking about.
HINT 2: The official Wait Wait hint for this guy: "What's the frequency, Kenneth?"
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Answer 5
Quote 6 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "(He) is set to pop into the core of this fiery vortex and escape unsinged for your viewing pleasure."
That was a come-on for an "amazing feat," performed live on television last Tuesday night.... who escaped unsinged?
HINT: Claudia Schiffer escaped unsinged from him.
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (14.4 | 28.8)
Our new legislation is weird,
But I'm safe since my chin disappeared.
Let's just see how many'll
Mark the centennial.
It's a crime if you don't grow a __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (14.4 | 28.8)
Though it's chalky, I always succumb.
'Cuz it beats trading cards with some bum.
When I wind up with doubles
I still can blow bubbles
With crumbling but sweet sticks of __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (14.4 | 28.8)
Full service is something of latter day.
We're trying to hold out for fatter pay.
In snow, sleet, or scattered gray,
It doesn't matter, hey,
We won't deliver on __________.
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Answer 3
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