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June 16, 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: "The Swedish currency is known as the krona, pronounced like the Mexican beer you used to drink."
That, from Tom McNichol on Salon.com, is one of the dozens of travel tips offered this week for whose big voyage to Europe?
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "We may have prayed too long."
That's a Louisiana resident a week after Governor Mike Foster told folks in the Bayou State to pray for something that they then got too much of. What?
HINT: The prayer was answered... by Allison.
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "He was so brave. In the 21st century, a woman doesn't often see her knight fight off a real dragon."
That's Sharon Stone in The New York Daily News putting a positive spin on the gift to her husband that went horribly awry... when he was attacked by what?
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Answer 3
Who's Carl: Section II
Quote 4 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "There is practically no freedom. I cannot go anywhere, I cannot just get out of the car and buy myself a beer."
That's a man in Russia complaining about his life of privation... who?
HINT: If this guy really wants a beer, he can set up a tap in the Kremlin.
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Answer 4
Quote 5 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "It's sad, but I understand why he's gone. Kids want fireworks; kids want smoke. They want something more."
That's Chicago resident Normal Holder lamenting to The New York Times about the demise of an icon of children's television. Who put away his blue shoes and flaming red hair this week?
HINT: This clown's name is a synonym for jerk or incompetent.
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Answer 5
Quote 6 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "What do I smell? Pork Cutlets! Che gusto. I eat to your health."
That line from a letter is offered as proof of why a man died in 1791 at the tender age of 35. Who, according to a new theory, may have died from eating delicious but tainted pork?
HINT: It turns out that one of his most famous works was really titled "Eine Kleine Knockwurst."
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (14.4 | 28.8)
What, are your heads made of granite?
When the Earth warms up, we can't just fan it.
If the heat is bewitchin',
Get out of the kitchen.
Let's pick up and move the whole __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (14.4 | 28.8)
Tippi Hedren knew just how it goes.
We swoop down and peck at your nose.
From Hitchcock's dark urges,
To Tokyo scourges,
We're violent, scavenging __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (14.4 | 28.8)
The Japanese monster's a killa
He'll make you strong like a gorilla.
Hey kids! Come on, try it.
A reptilic diet.
Just eat this canned meat of __________.
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Answer 3
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