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July 29, 2000
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 Special Historical Edition of the show.
Who's Carl This Time?
Quote 1 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "If he is elected, murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will be openly taught and practiced."
They didn't need no stinking buzzwords. When they went negative, they went negative. That dire warning was an attempt to scare voters away from voting for what U.S. presidential candidate?
HINT: His sex scandal wasn't revealed for around 200 years.
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "Well, David, did you do any fornicating this weekend?"
That was an ex-president's attempt to break the ice before taping his first interview after leaving the White House. Who said it?
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "For call to order, I wrote, 'Sit.' For salute the flag, I wrote, 'Stand up, face flag, mouth words.' For roll call, I wrote, 'When you hear your name, say yes.'"
That was an aide to what former mayor of Palm Springs, California, explaining how she had to prepare her boss' agenda in cue card form?
HINT: His previous cue cards said: Let wife make fun of you. Kiss Chastity.
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Answer 3
Who's Carl: Section II
Quote 4 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "It might be an altogether charming musical, if only the people of Anatevka did not pause every now and again to give their regards to Broadway with rememberances to Herald Square."
That was New York Times theater critic Walter Kerr giving thumbs down to what new musical?
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Answer 4
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CARL: "It is sad stuff, dull and dreary, or ridiculous. His Quakers are the wretchedest dolts and drivelers, and his mad captain is a monstrous bore."
That scathing review appeared in the Southern Quarterly Review back in 1851. What dull, dreary, ridiculous novel was being trashed?
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Answer 5
Quote 6 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "The regretful verdict here is, 'Dead In the Water.'"
That was Time Magazine film critic Richard Corliss in a 1997 review of what?
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (14.4 | 28.8)
"Young Leda I want to seduce,
And so I've concocted this ruse:
I'll change to a swan,
Then we'll get it on,"
Thus schemes the old lecherous __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (14.4 | 28.8)
Though I may not drive a Mercedes,
I am a big hit with the ladies.
My song makes rocks weep
And puts lions to sleep,
While Eurydice's slumming with __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (14.4 | 28.8)
In order to stave off disaster,
We stayed in and just played canasta.
The prophecy said
That once my dad's dead,
I'd hop into bed with __________.
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Answer 3
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