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July 21, 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: "One person can say, 'Let's go (there) dressed as inflatable George Bushes,' and hundreds will show up that way."
That's Rodney Barker of the London School of Economics talking to The LA Times about the determination of protesters security forces will face this weekend... at what?
Hint: Descriptions of this always include the words "Plus Russia."
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Answer 1
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CARL: "What happened is, they got the willies, they got the buckwheats their knees wobbled and we gave it up."
That, as you can tell from the inscrutable folksy style, was Dan Rather, describing how his producers came to finally decide that what story was newsworthy?
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (14.4 | 28.8)
CARL: "[She's] gonna get her [breast] caught in a big fat wringer if that's published. That's the most sickening thing I ever heard."
That is Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell's famous, and slightly edited, attempt to dissuade the publisher of The Washington Post from continuing to pursue the Watergate story. That publisher died this week at 84, who was it?
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Answer 3
Who's Carl: Section II
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CARL: "We've been outwitted. They goofed, and it looks like taxpayer money is being thrown down the toilet."
That's a Californian named Harvey Rosenfield complaining that his state bought way too much of something and now has to sell it at a steep loss. What?
Hint: We thought the whole problem was that they had too little of it.
Hint: Everybody must have listened to Barbara Streisand when she asked them to conserve.
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Answer 4
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CARL: "I have said that I am not running and I'm having a great time being Presi - Uh... being a first-term senator."
Who inadvertently might have given the world a hint of her ambitions?
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Answer 5
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CARL: "I'll have to show them to my wife before I wear them. They're not really my style."
That's a man describing his Tonight Show book chat in which another guest, Sean "Puffy" Combs spontaneously gave him a pair of boxer shorts. Who was it?
Hint: He famously said that power is the ultimate aphrodisiac... so who needs glam underwear?
Hint: If this former Secretary of State doesn't want to wear them, he can display them next to his half of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (14.4 | 28.8)
The contortionist's down on his luck,
"My act wound up running amok.
Right foot on left shoulder.
Okay. There. Now hold 'er.
But I can't get it down 'cuz I'm __________."
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (14.4 | 28.8)
Your German exchange tour just stunk.
You swilled beers and snored in your bunk.
And, oh, Mayor Lueck,
It's Furstenfeldbruck,
You'd know that if you weren't so __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (14.4 | 28.8)
Thanks to small plastic packing devices
We can jack up our PBJ prices.
Though kids "seen it" mutter,
We sell peanut butter
In wrapped, individual __________.
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Answer 3
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