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May 19, 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: "Mr. Bush urges TV viewers to support his plan, which will provide families with the money they can use to subscribe to HBO, allowing them to watch The Sopranos."
That's Paul Krugman of the New York Times, suggesting that President Bush will cite almost anything as a reason why the country needs his what?
HINT: $1,600 should be more than sufficient to add HBO to your cable package.
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Answer 1
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CARL: "You'd think she could muster a little empathy about important documents that pad away on little cat feet."
That's Maureen Dowd writing in the New York Times about a certain woman being shocked -- shocked! -- over the FBI's loss of important documents this week. Who's expressing a new found concern about missing evidence?
HINT: She once took two years to hand over some records of her own.
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Answer 2
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CARL: "For the amount of talent I had, I enjoyed a tremendous career."
That was the last of the great crooners... musing in his typically modest way, about his success. He died last Saturday at 88. Who is he?
HINT: His first recording for RCA-Victor was Goodbye Sue. His other titles were about as imaginative -- like Hubba Hubba, Zing, Zing Zoom Zoom, Papaya-mama, Hot Diggity, N'yot N'yow and Chi-baba, Chi-baba.
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Answer 3
Who's Carl: Section II
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CARL: "This was not a scientific map! This was a Ted Kennedy style liberal map... you heard me! You could've eaten brie off this map!
That's a fictional White House official in the comic strip Doonesbury. He's referring to a very real map that got its maker fired. The map showed that caribou like to mate precisely where the Bush administration proposes to do what?
HINT: Both Bush and Cheney have experience doing this in Texas.
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Answer 4
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CARL: "We can't pinpoint when the marriage died... But we know that four and a half years ago, she said she was voting for his opponent."
That was just one of the accusations New York divorce lawyer Raoul Felder launched over the Mother's Day weekend against his client's estranged wife. Who is Mr. Felder's client?
HINT: They're fighting over who gets Gracie Mansion.
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Answer 5
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CARL: "When I die, I would like to be born again as me."
That was a man addressing the students at Oxford this week to talk about his life and his many accomplishments. Who is hoping for another chance at being himself?
HINT: Next time, he might rethink the purple silk bathrobes.
HINT: He probably won't rethink the concept of the centerfold.
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (14.4 | 28.8)
I think Mercer's ad was mere prattle.
He'll ship us girls west as his chattel.
We'll go there for marriage
so men don't disparage
and lose too much sleep in ________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (14.4 | 28.8)
Jack Kerouac said, "loggers did know
The indigent keep their lid low.
The logging road hums
With down-and-out bums
On Yesler Way, known as _________ .
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (14.4 | 28.8)
Come on, guys, don't sit and behave.
Pump up this place like it's a rave!
This neat Huskies crowd
should really get loud.
Rise up! Sit down! Let's make a ________.
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Answer 3
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