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June 2, 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: "Will anorexics be allowed in the ring with sumo wrestlers? Will swimmers be allowed to compete wearing floaties?"
That's The Los Angeles Times editorial page weighing in with some of the more outlandish potential outcomes of whose Supreme Court victory this week?
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Answer 1
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CARL: "Since the beginning..., we have been called fanatic, radical fundamentalists, extremists, all these derogatory names. And that is what has driven us crazy."
That was a spokesman for a government that's become notorious for its harsh policies. According to them, it turns out it's our fault for calling them names. What country's government turns out to be so sensitive?
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Answer 2
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CARL: "They only do it for the bucks. I've even seen ministers dressed like this make a pass at a bride. It gets me upset. They've giving Elvis a bad name."
That's Elvis impersonator and minister Kent Ripley in The Washington Post agreeing with his city's attempt to crack down on its wedding industry... In what city?
HINT: You can immediately blow your dowry at the craps tables.
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Answer 3
Who's Carl: Section II
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CARL: "The roof leaks. You have to bang on the refrigerator to keep it from making so much noise. So it's not perfect. You have to keep working on it."
That's U.S. Senator Zell Miller (D-GA) comparing the rickety old home he's lived in for 70 years with something else he just won't leave... what?
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Answer 4
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CARL: "When they get that check, they probably will blow it."
That's Tom Oshenschlager of the Grant Thorton accounting firm in USA Today predicting what many Americans will do with a check they'll get this fall. Who's sending the check?
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Answer 5
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CARL: "It is, if you will, finally and blessedly, the death of Andrew Lloyd Webber."
That's screenwriter William Goldman talking about a Broadway phenomenon that he says has dealt a mortal blow to the once ubiquitous Mr. Lloyd Webber. What is the phenomenon?
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (14.4 | 28.8)
I am just a political rookie.
But I had good odds, ask any bookie.
I'm suspended, although
I did not offer dough,
I just promised my voters a __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (14.4 | 28.8)
I've heard that the book's word is pliable,
So apocryphal pictures are viable.
My new glossylaylia
Are sure to regale 'ya.
That's why I will pose for the __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (14.4 | 28.8)
The "rebarbative hoyden," compellingly,
Like "myocarditis," is quelling me.
They're "prolix," "sporadic,"
And "exanthematic,"
These words that came from this year's __________.
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Answer 3
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