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June 30, 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
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Who's Carl This Time?
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CARL: "If she were petting her pet monkey, would you ban pet monkeys?"
That's a rhetorical complaint about a new driving law in New York by state assemblyman James Tedisco. While his hypothetical driver can still pet her monkey, as of November, what can she no longer do?
HINT: To extend the metaphor, maybe she couldn't pet her monkey, but she could still plug it into the cigarette lighter and shout at it.
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Answer 1
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CARL: "She never meant that it necessarily applied to her."
That was a spokesman for a prominent woman who publicly urged her fellow Californians to save energy by turning down their air conditioners and drying their clothes outside. Who won't be seen in her backyard with clothespins in her mouth any time soon?
HINT: People who can tell other people what to do without doing it themselves, are the luckiest people.
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Answer 2
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CARL: "Captain, it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I want you to know that I just threw your stinkin' palm tree overboard. Now what's all this crud about no movie tonight?"
That's the classic last line from the 1955 movie, Mr. Roberts. The actor who spoke that line won an Oscar for the role. He died Thursday at age 76. Who is it?
HINT: He also was at the receiving end of one of the other great final lines in movie history, at the end of Some Like it Hot: "Nobody's perfect."
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Answer 3
Who's Carl: Section II
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CARL: "You get a thing called 'Mego.' My eyes glaze over in a big hurry when you talk about this."
That's Senator John McCain on CNN, expressing his enthusiasm for one of the most important pieces of legislation pending in Washington this week. What is it?
HINT: He wanted to get his eyes deglazed, but his HMO wouldn't pay for it.
HINT 2: Senator McCain is actually a sponsor of this legislation.
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Answer 4
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CARL: "Snakes just scare the hell out of me. I'm sort of scared about going [to Africa], but the wife is really nervous. I just see myself in a pot of boiling water with all these natives dancing around me."
That was Mel Lastman, who's reportedly still mayor of Toronto. With that statement, the mayor presumably lost all African support for his city's bid for what?
HINT: If Toronto does get this, it'll be on the condition that Lastman act as a javelin target.
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Answer 5
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CARL: "Sid, Joey, Rod and Gerald were draped in little more than hot pants and grass skirts as they danced around the float hawking Smirnoff vodka."
This from The San Francisco Chronicle about an annual parade that's staged in cities across the nation. Some say this parade is becoming increasingly commercial, although it's meant to celebrate what?
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (14.4 | 28.8)
From his grave, old Mayor Daley has beckoned.
"Well, size doesn't matter," he reckoned.
"Broad shoulders and wurst
Did not make us first.
And, sadly, we're not even __________."
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (14.4 | 28.8)
I'm cream filled and shaped like your pinky.
If you microwave me, I get stinky.
I inspired a defense
That doesn't make sense.
The sponge cake that's known as a __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (14.4 | 28.8)
It once was a stop where the trolley stood.
But some settlers found our name jolly good.
It was home to more tractors
Than unemployed actors.
And yet we inspired the name __________.
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Answer 3
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