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Jun 23, 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: "His smiles and soft talk with Bush, and his eagerness to nod sagely and laugh at Bush's jokes... were just a brief, and highly successful, tactical diversion."
That's the UPI's Martin Sieff, giving his rather suspicious take on President Bush's meeting last week with another world leader. Which one?
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Answer 1
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CARL: "His eyes, the color of an arctic ice floe... of an Anguilla cove... those eyes have watched baseballs fly at them his whole life. The eyes still see baseballs flying at them. Now coming a little too quickly, but they do not cry. Ours, being inferior, do."
That was just a taste of Frank Ahrens' Washington Post tribute to a baseball player, whose announced retirement this week led to many such gush and gooey testimonials. Who?
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Answer 2
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CARL: "You don't know anything about Lady Liberty, standing there in the harbor, with her torch out high, screaming out to all the nations of the world, 'Send me your poor, your deadbeats, your filthy...'"
That was an emblematic outburst from one of the biggest characters ever on network television. The actor who created that character died Thursday at the age of 76. Who was the man behind America's most loved bigot?
HINT: The character was chiding "Meathead."
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Answer 3
Who's Carl: Section II
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CARL: "I guess we now know what it stands for: Improving the Republican Summer."
That's New York Senator Chuck Schumer saying that a letter to millions of Americans was just another way for President Bush to promote his economic agenda. Who is going to be sending this letter?
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Answer 4
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CARL: "It's gotta be big enough to rip your head off if you're going to wrestle. Other than that, it ain't fair."
That's a Florida man named Mike Bailey who's flown to New York to vanquish something that's been terrorizing New York's Central Park. What?
HINT: This thing has been an urban legend in New York for many years.
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Answer 5
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CARL: "They took out the part where Jar Jar steps in poop on Tatooine and juggles pop cans in the junkyard."
That's a reviewer highlighting one of the big changes in an unauthorized re-edit of what?
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (14.4 | 28.8)
Proud Georgian hearts slowly do sag.
They say, "Let us wave our old rag.
Because of our seal,
So surveys reveal,
Our state has the ugliest __________."
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (14.4 | 28.8)
Guy Ritchie, he gives me the hots.
To score, it won't take many shots.
The Highlands were built
On the freedom of kilts.
The most virile men are the __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (14.4 | 28.8)
I woke up to some verbal crossfire,
And I jumped up two feet, maybe higher.
"6 a.m.? Nothing's well!
What have you got to sell?
Will someone shut up the town __________?"
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Answer 3
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