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May 5, 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?
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CARL: "I also made it clear to him that it's important for us to think beyond the old days... when we had the kind of concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe."
That's someone describing a conversation he had with Russian President Putin. Who said we needed to stop thinking that blowing each other up made us safer?
HINT: Who else?
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "I think the throwing up lasted only two hours. It's really a piece of cake."
That's a man talking to CNN about his father's bout with motion sickness earlier this week. Who is this man's father?
HINT: If it's Tuesday, we must be 250 miles over Belgium.
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "Louis Freeh is a (bleep) (bleeping) (bleep)."
That, according to The Scotsman newspaper, was how one person reportedly described the outgoing FBI chief a couple of years back. Who?
HINT: It's ironic since this is the person who hired Mr. Freeh.
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Answer 3
Who's Carl: Section II
Quote 4 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "They have a greater need than other people to feel superior. They are more likely to endorse statements such as 'prestige is important to me,' and 'I am impressed with designer clothes.'
That's AP television editor Frazier Moore writing about a psychological profile of the people most likely to do what?
HINT: Tens of millions of them did this Thursday night.
HINT: They are also the people most likely to be interested in the eating of live bugs and rats.
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Answer 4
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CARL: "It would be a very low tone. Not even whales could hear it."
That was a man named Michael Turner, describing a sound in the news this week. What made this sound?
HINT: It happened about 14 billion years ago.
HINT: It was a low tone, but a huge noise.
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Answer 5
Quote 6 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "He's not gay and he's ready to prove that in court."
Tht's lawyer Bert Fields talking to the press about his client, who is finally ready to straighten out those rumors once and for all. Who is his client?
HINT 1: Plus, he also says he's not short.
HINT 2: Getting people to believe him is a Mission: Impossible.
HINT 3: Depending on the evidence, this case could be Risky Business.
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (14.4 | 28.8)
Police people skills are quite tragic.
Their loss is downright hemorrhagic.
"Just pick any card,"
They'll say at the yard.
The trick is to teach cops some __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (14.4 | 28.8)
Finland: Think of trees and soft breezes,
Not seizures or wheezes and sneezes.
Genetic disorders
Exist past our borders.
We're finished with Finnish __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (14.4 | 28.8)
The Coens should seen this news, Margot.
It seems there's a photo embargo.
This survey of cities
Says Frisco's most pretty.
The least photogenic is __________.
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Answer 3
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