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June 9, 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: "All they had to do was switch hairpieces."
That was David Letterman, from CBS's Late Show, talking about the ease with which two men switched jobs. What two men was he talking about?
HINT: One of them parts the hairpiece on the left, the other on the right.
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "I don't think he's in touch with the real world. For starters, he must be in Cloud Cuckoo Land if he thinks he can win the election."
That's a British pensioner showing her disdain for the man who indeed led his party to stomping defeat in Thursday's election in Britain. Who?
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead."
That's a 2-time Oscar winning actor, who never seemed to play the leading man, but often played the victorious ruler. He died last Sunday at the age of 83. Who was it?
As hints, here are some of his most well-known movie lines:
HINT 1: "If a woman sleeps alone, it puts a shame on all men."
HINT 2: "The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor! Because I am a river to my people!"
HINT 3: Those lines were from Zorba the Greek and Lawrence of Arabia.
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Answer 3
Who's Carl: Section II
Quote 4 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "The muggy, buggy air that enveloped and threatened to wilt him suggested that it was not easy being green."
That was The New York Times -- not usually given to either puns or Muppet references -- talking about whose campaign to tout his environmental efforts?
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Answer 4
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CARL: "This is going to be like the oil crisis of the '70's."
That was Jean Phillipe Loup, fretting to The Wall Street Journal about the upcoming severe shortages in what essential commodity?
HINT 1: Jean Phillippe Loup runs Lepinasse, an incredibly expensive restaurant in Manhattan.
HINT 2: To make do, desperate rich people will start serving little chocolate malt balls soaked in salt at their parties...
HINT 3: At least there's no shortage of toast points and capers.
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Answer 5
Quote 6 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "It's like the world is shouting my name. You can't really get used to it. I wish it would end."
That's a woman who for the past month has had to hear and see her name on movie marquees everywhere. What's her name?
HINT: Her friend, Dee Daye felt the same pain the year Saving Private Ryan was released.
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (14.4 | 28.8)
That hyper kid's broken the baby's toy.
To slow him down I've got a crazy ploy.
Just tell the sweet pup
To recline with feet up
And make sure he sleeps in a __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (14.4 | 28.8)
The young matador weaves with great flair
But he dreads being caught unaware.
"To avoid more close shaves
I'll learn how he behaves,
Which I'll judge by the bull's facial __________."
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (14.4 | 28.8)
Though I fear things appear quite austere,
Mere job cuts won't shear my career.
Been laid off by Guinness.
Don't send violinists,
Just give me my severance in __________.
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Answer 3
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