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July 14, 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: "This is just another one of the foreign countries he has to visit."
That's U.S. Rep. Peter King describing President Bush's trip this week...to what exotic locale?
Hint: he was amazed to discover that among the natives there, the Bronx is up, the Battery is down, and the people ride in a hole in the ground.
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "Toronto has as much chance of landing it as Homer Simpson has of landing Marilyn Monroe."
That prophetic quote is from Canadian columnist Ed Willes, who was discussing Toronto's chances of scoring what?
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "If you want to participate... but can't afford the trip, just pull down your pants and sit on a pitchfork."
That's CBS's Craig Kilborn's suggestion to those who couldn't get to Spain this week... for what?
Hint: as Hemingway might say, it was good, it was fine, it was 14 tons of angry prime rib chasing a bunch of drunk tourists.
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Answer 3
Who's Carl: Section II
Quote 4 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "He started stumbling backward, like a Teletubby in high heels... the sheer acceleration of his descent nearly flipped him into a full backward somersault."
That's Seth Wickersham from ESPN describing Tommy Lasorda's accidental floor routine. That turned out to be the highlight, pretty much, of a big sporting event this week... which one?
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Answer 4
Quote 5 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "I bet you wish I was a puppet so you could stick your hand up my [rear] and make me do what you want!"
That, according to Newsweek, was what a legendary actor said to director Frank Oz on the set of their new movie, The Score... Who was the unpuppetlike performer?
Hint: if he wins an OscarTM for this performance, we'll be saying hello again to Sacheen Littlefeather.
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Answer 5
Quote 6 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "It's one thing for it not to be 'my day, my week or even my year... it's another for it not to be my decade. At what point do you simply become a loser?"
That was our old friend Robert Thompson, head of Syracuse University's Center for the Study of Popular Television, talking about a TV show that most likely won't "be there for you" after this season. Which?
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (14.4 | 28.8)
The argument got pretty bitter.
They claim dust can cause bitty jitters.
But we found some great clay
That masks feline spray.
So we're trying to mine __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (14.4 | 28.8)
I'll write without dipping a pen.
No, wait, let me try that again.
I've found that you studs
Are nothing but duds,
I'll get pregnant without help from __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (14.4 | 28.8)
The white witch priest's gaze sweeps the room,
"the quidditch match will not resume
until Warner replaces
the way Harry faces.
That's not how you sit on a __________.
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Answer 3
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