|
August 18, 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.
Who's Jean This Time?
Quote 1 (14.4 | 28.8)
JEAN: He will "not stop until he makes the [kitchen] look like the inside of a Sizzler Steakhouse."
That was what The New York Daily News calls an "insider" describing how one powerful man is planning to redesign his kitchen... starting with a salad bar complete with a see-through plastic sneeze guard. Who's redecorating his kitchen?
HINT: Go ahead, Mr. Prime Minister. Go get some more Jello cubes; it's all you can eat!
•
Answer 1
Quote 2 (14.4 | 28.8)
JEAN: "Let me tell you a secret. The Democrats didn't lose the White House, they had it stolen!"
That's from an interview in Esquire magazine, with a world figure celebrating his 75th birthday. Who's offering his solidarity to Al Gore?
HINT: Guys with beards apparently stick together.
HINT: This guy's knowledge of elections comes from things heard on Radio Marti.
•
Answer 2
Quote 3 (14.4 | 28.8)
JEAN: "You don't want to drop the crescent wrench."
That's a man named Steve Fossett talking about his successful repair job ths week. If he dropped the wrench, he'd never see it again;. What did he fix?
HINT: If he'd dropped the wrench, it would have landed in the Andes mountains.
•
Answer 3
Who's Jean Section Two
Quote 4 (14.4 | 28.8)
JEAN: "I really believe that I may be the one to show him that he shouldn't serve a day more than his father. You don't want to offend your father or go beyond what your dad has done, so I might save him from that."
That was someone making a veiled threat to bring his unique campaign style to the national stage in 2004. Who said this week that he might save George W. Bush from showing up his father?
HINT: Well, he's already embarrassed the state of Minnesota, so why not all of us?
•
Answer 4
Quote 5 (14.4 | 28.8)
JEAN: "Who ya think ya are? Earl Anthony?"
That oft-heard phrase, at least according to The Washington Post, might be the most enduring memorial for Mr. Anthony, who died this week at the age of 63. Where might people taunt their friends' hubris by comparing them to Anthony?
HINT: You might hear this shortly after you rent your shoes.
•
Answer 5
Quote 6 (14.4 | 28.8)
JEAN: "I put the dolls, to be succinct, in compromising positions with kitchen appliances."
That's Utah artist Tom Forsythe, who this week was told by a U.S. district court judge that he could, indeed, show photographs of a certain doll in compromising positions... despite protests from the doll's maker. What's the doll?
HINT: If Ken had been in the artwork, it might have been ruled to be harassment.
HINT: In Australia, they cook shrimp on these.
•
Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (14.4 | 28.8)
7-Eleven's are vying to refine;
Though oenophiles tend to decline.
Full-bodied and lenient,
Yet cheap and convenient.
They now sell their own line of __________,
•
Answer 1
Limerick 2: (14.4 | 28.8)
As mothers are apt to remind,
"Your diet and health's intertwined.
If your meals are spectacular
Your ordeals will be macular.
Yes, junk food will make you go __________."
•
Answer 2
Limerick 3: (14.4 | 28.8)
For iron political stature,
Marquis de Sade just couldn't match her.
No, we're not psychotic,
We think she's erotic.
So let's display Baroness __________.
•
Answer 3
|
