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September 8, 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 host Peter Sagal.
Who's Carl This Time?
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Carl: "The sheer influx of reporters should boost the Florida economy and make up for the tourism dollars lost by all the sensational coverage of shark attacks."
That was the Washington Post's evaluation of a political announcement in Florida this week. Whose candidacy might help Florida stave off recession?
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "This company performed an illegal operation but they will not be shut down."
That's Scott Harshberger of Common Cause, giving his opinion of a company that got a very favorable ruling from the U.S. Justice Department this week...What's the company?
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Answer 2
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CARL: "No fajitas...and, no piñatas."
Those qualifications were made by two White House aides describing what absolutely would not be included in President Bush's first _______?
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Answer 3
Who's Carl Section Two
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CARL: "We're prepared. Now if we lose our beer vendors, then we got a problem."
That's Baltimore Ravens owner Art Modell assuring fans that this week's NFL season openers won't be harmed because the league couldn't agree on a contract with...whom?
HINT: The people in question used a different kind of hand gesture to respond to the owner's contract offer.
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Answer 4
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CARL: "Last week, my wife and I took our boys down to Sea World and I did a lot of thinking about what I'd do in your shoes. While I have certainly made my share of mistakes, I want my kids to know that it's not the tough situations we face, but the way we handle them that defines us."
That was Larry King's somewhat rambling effort to get an interview from whom?
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Answer 5
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CARL: "Wasn't there perhaps one little von Trapp who didn't want to sing his head off or who screamed that he wouldn't act out little glockenspiel routines for Papa's party guests?"
That biting description of The Sound of Music was a pan that reportedly got the reviewer fired back in 1965. But she went on to become perhaps the preeminent film critic of her time. She died this week...who lambasted Julie Andrews and the kids?
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
We'll get rid of your trash, please don't block your pile.
We know you'll be convinced if we talk a while.
Our reptile's no quitter.
He'll eat Iceland's litter.
As dispose all just use our big __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
On his barstool, the patron goes pale.
"Oh, drop the effusive detail.
Ancient malts are a go.
But i don't need to know
That there's animal dung in my __________."
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
Houston, this is a disgrace.
See the crew's Dionysian embrace?
The ship's called Apollo!
But that seems to ring hollow.
They took pregnancy tests out to __________.
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Answer 3
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