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April 14, 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: "We're sorry that we'll be broadcasting... Lee-Anne Rimes and the Backstreet Boys 24-7 (to your people) until your pathetic despotic regime crumbles under the weight of Levis, Starbucks, Krispy Kremes... and Keanu Reeves DVD's."
That's author David Pesci in the Los Angeles Times offering his own version of... what?
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Answer 1
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CARL: "Every time there is a hostage situation, I make money."
That's song composer L. Russell Brown, who made a lot of money during the Iranian hostage crisis, and could have made a bundle if the China standoff hadn't ended so quickly. What chestnut did Mr. Brown compose?
HINT: This song encourages people to deface their trees.
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "Poyekhali!"
That's Russian for "Let's go." Forty years ago Thursday, a Russian named Yuri Gagarin uttered that word to begin a journey that would make him the first... what?
HINT: 23 days later, Alan Shepherd became the second person to do it.
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Answer 3
Who's Carl: Section II
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CARL: "He can call it a grand slam, swell slam, semi-charmed slam, I can't believe it's not a grand slam, Lucille, whatever."
That's Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle trying to come up with a suitable moniker for one man's remarkable sporting achievement in the news this week. Whose?
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Answer 4
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CARL: "For the second time in a couple of weeks, he's been spotted working out... [Let us] be the first to confirm what much of hoops-following America appears already to suspect: He is indeed fat."
That's Mark Kreidler on ESPN.com telling the world that someone else isn't quite ready to come back to the spotlight... who?
HINT: If he did come back, it wouldn't be the second coming. It would be the third.
HINT 2: If he got really really fat, he'd look like Charles Barkley.
FINAL AND DESPERATE HINT: What's the name of the one basketball player you've heard of in your life?
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Answer 5
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CARL: "I would have played for free...after all, the umpire says 'play ball,' not 'work ball.' It was never a job to me."
That's a baseball slugger known for years to Pittsburgh Pirates fans as "Pops." He died this week. Who said it?
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (14.4 | 28.8)
When your sumo frame lands on the mat
And your cartilage goes with a splat
I'll fix your bum knee
With the cause of its plea:
I'll use stem cells derived from your __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (14.4 | 28.8)
Where Sayerville's mud is all slick,
The parasites grow rather thick.
This chigger is scary.
Its back is so hairy.
I've just found the world's oldest __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (14.4 | 28.8)
(Austrian accent - think Schwarzenegger)
The budding musician was edgy,
"Our performance was limp, stale, and hedgy.
Our beets, beg your pardon,
Are too avant-garden
They laughed while I tuned up my __________.
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Answer 3
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