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September 1, 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 with guest host, Adam Felber.
Who's Carl This Time?
Quote 1 (Listen with Real Audio)
ADAM: "Sir, you talked about the need to..."
CARL: "How are you?"
ADAM: "Doing good, I'm good."
CARL: "Fine lad, fine lad."
ADAM: "You talked about the need to maintain technological..."
CARL: "A little short on hair, but a fine lad."
ADAM: "I am losing some hair."
In that stirring reenactment, Adam played the role of the apparently balding reporter, J. Root. What jocular, but perhaps less than sensitive public figure chose to focus on Root's lack of roots?
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Answer 1
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CARL: "I gave birth to him in my own house. I know where and when he was born, regardless of what people say."
That's the mother of a young man whose age came into question this week. What kid needed his mother to claim she remembered giving birth to him?
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Answer 2
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CARL: "It's difficult to sympathize and really connect to someone who is wearing underpants (over his) tights."
That's TV writer/producer Alfred Gough on his reinterperetation of a iconic hero in a new WB series coming to your screens this fall. Who did they feel needed to shuck his tights to have relevance for today's audience?
HINT: Lois will be happy, since she always wanted him to lose his tights.
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Answer 3
Who's Carl Section Two
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CARL: "Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate. He's got a car, a place to stay and somebody over there at night at the apartment with him."
That's South Carolina Democratic Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings speaking of one of his esteemed colleagues. Who, according to Hollings, is in the Senate because it's better than other facilities for the aging?
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Answer 4
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CARL: "I think they did what any conscientious Maine person would do, they hid it in a box of Corn Chex."
That's the lawyer for two Maine residents who hid something very valuable in a box of Corn Chex. What was it?
HINT: The value of this little thing: $41 million... after taxes.
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Answer 5
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CARL: "The show may be the asparagus of children's TV. In the long run, the asparagus is better for you."
That's one of the actors on a longtime kids show, who was saying that the program is to asparagus as cartoons are to candy. The show aired its final new episode this week. What show?
HINT: Hang on to your cardigan and sneakers.
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
It might work for Justin or Lance,
And for posers who know how to dance.
But this pimply teen
Doesn't want to be seen.
I'll say no to those back-to-school __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
No, ma'am, I don't think I'm so whopping smart.
I'm fully aware there's a flopping part.
Still, I'm here to ransom
Your wire mesh Hansom
Please give back the grocery store's __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
Our volleyball score's in arrears.
But, girls, now please choke back your tears.
If you howl like King Lear,
The ref just might hear,
And smear us for organized __________."
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Answer 3
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