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September 22, 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?
Quote 1 (Listen with Real Audio)
Carl: "You might actually have a better chance of getting tickets to The Producers now, if you want to come here and see it."
That was somebody doing his part to encourage tourists to come back to New York. Who was it?
HINT: He took a moment to encourage tourists between holding press conferences, running the rescue effort, comforting the mourning, lifting everybody's spirits, and making everybody forget about his marital problems.
Answer 1
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CARL: "There is somebody who could end this in a hurry. You want a quick end to this, send [her] over there."
That was Regis Philbin, suggesting that if we want to end any conflict quickly, we should dispatch who to Afghanistan?
HINT: Regis knows of her destructive powers first hand... particularly her singing.
Answer 2
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CARL: "There are fewer lyrics, the range is shorter, as you get closer to the ending it has much more energy in it... there's an emotional buildup."
That was Timothy Sharpe, music director of the Miami Children's Chorus, discussing a song's big comeback over the past two weeks. What song?
HINT: It's a heck of a lot easier to sing than "The Star Spangled Banner."
HINT: Kate Smith would be very proud.
Answer 3
Who's Carl Section Two
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CARL: "It would have to be a good quality photo and it would have to be more than just a peck on the lips, but I think you'd probably be able to retire on it."
That is a man named Alasdair Lyall of London's All Action Photo Agency. He was predicting an early retirement for anyone able to get a picture of a certain young man engaging in a public display of affection... what young man?
HINT: If the rumors are correct, it would be with President Bush's neice, Lauren.
Answer 4
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CARL: "I wouldn't even think about playing music if I was born in these times. I wouldn't even listen to the radio."
That's an aging musician saying that if he grew up listening to modern acts like Mya, Outkast and Blink 182, he would have run in horror straight to some other line of work. Who said that?
HINT: He probably would have stayed in Hibbing, Minnesota, seen a speech therapist about the mumbling, and gone into insurance.
Answer 5
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CARL: "I get the big ones in a little stash and the little ones in a little stash. I love it. It makes me happy."
Speaking of pop stars that Bob Dylan doesn't like, that was one of them revealing her obsessive-compulsive need to organize her rubber bands by size... who?
HINT: She's the official lip synching trollop of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me.
HINT: Sometimes she uses the large rubber bands for her skirts, and the little ones for her tops.
HINT: Now we know the real reason behind her hit, "You Drive Me Crazy."
Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
The weight issues soon will not far be,
For dangers and dolls like meals Carb-y.
Now Malibu's sugar plum
Urges you all to come.
The Nutcracker's sponsored by __________.
Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
The young artist has sought to convey
That I'm more than a shaped lump of clay.
A most intimate portrait,
And genetics support it.
It's made from my own __________.
Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
The octopus often alarms
When trying to work all his charms.
"Oh, honey, be kind.
I do love your mind.
That's why I am groping your __________."
Answer 3
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