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August 25, 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 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I'm so old fashioned I believe in horse whipping."
That's a 1991 self-appraisal by a man who spent many years doing just that to his political opponents. What old-school Republican announced this week that he was going to hang up his horsewhip?
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "It feels a little heavier than my old (one). The biggest thing is getting used to not having a beat -- I have a whirring sound."
That was a man named Robert Tools, who on Tuesday emerged from anonymity to let it be known he's the first man to have what?
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "When I was younger, I was never really insecure at all. Now I sometimes get insecure because people expect celebrities to look a certain way. And there are mornings I wake up and my butt feels fat."
That's one of America's favorite pop singers complaining about her personal topography. What 19-year-old was worrying about the pitfalls of growing old?
HINT: Oops, I'm bloated again.
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Answer 3
Who's Carl Section Two
Quote 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "An interviewer like me, and I'm trying not to be conceited here, but I think I could make the guy look like a schmo pretty easy... I could probably destroy him."
That's Fox News' Bill O'Reilly giving his typically O'Reilly-centric opinion of the result of this week's big interview. Who didn't O'Reilly get the chance to destroy?
HINT: Connie Chung got the chance instead.
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Answer 4
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CARL: "It is the most successful journalistic scam I have seen in my entire adult lifetime. A catastrophic fraud. Corrupt, intellectually bankrupt and revolting."
That is a man named Leon Botstein giving The New York Times his unfettered opinion on U.S. News and World Report's annual issue about what?
HINT: It's an annual ranking on a "graduated scale."
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Answer 5
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CARL:"I lost weight and shaved a beard -- he gained weight and grew a beard."
That's a potential Democratic Presidential candidate taking an early pot shot at his potential opponent, Al Gore. Who is lean, clean shaven and ready to run?
HINT: He lost the weight because of a Puerto Rico vacation... on Vieques.
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
'Twas the modus of his operandi
To inter things that might come in handy.
Now a bright South Pole trapper
Discovered a wrapper
It's Admiral Byrd's bar of __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
Our proportion's a chore to apprise.
Give us pants with more room in the thighs.
What we need as a nation,
Is recalibration.
Let's revise Britain's national __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
My nana called up her meat vendor,
"I've just put your steaks through a blender.
Get a bull that's serene.
Maybe he'll have the gene
Which says that his meat will be __________."
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Answer 3
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