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September 29, 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: "If you say negative things about him, you must be bad... there must be something wrong with you."
That was Bill Eimicke, who studies politics at Columbia University talking to the New York Times. What person is so highly regarded these days that any insults aimed at him bounce off him and stick to you?
HINT: He's deciding to use this superpower to keep his current job.
Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I didn't call 1-800-TALIBAN."
That was a man on Friday's Good Morning America saying that hey, the Taliban regime called him and asked for help, he didn't call them. Who insists he does not have the Taliban's number?
HINT: This mission could help people forget his child-out-of-wedlock scandal.
Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I'm Marta Strzyzewski, hello from New Mexico, homeland of America's most powerful defense research!"
That introduction from last Saturday night, touting New Mexico's military prowess rather than its beauty or artisans, was just one of several ways the terrorist attack changed what American tradition?
HINT: "There she is... wearing her Kevlar dress..."
Answer 3
Who's Carl Section Two
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CARL: "He wanted to stop by the White Castle for a cheeseburger."
That's Dr. Laman Gray of the University of Louisville reporting that the first place his patient wanted to go, upon leaving the hospital, was the kind of place that put him in the hospital to begn wtih. This man craving a White Castle is the first person to receive... a what?
HINT: We imagine him downing a couple of sliders and then... sputter, sputter, sputter...
Answer 4
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CARL: "They're going to be hotter, they're going to be hungrier, and they're going to be stinkier."
That was TV Guide reporter Joe Rhodes giving a little preview of the contestants we'll see this year... on what?
HINT: They'll probably be just a Machiavellian as their predecessors.
Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "If you ask me, there's no better midnight snack than a cold stick of butter... Call me crazy, but I think a chocolate chip cookie should be our next president... Why do beautiful young women marry me? I look like a rotten apple stuck on top of a beef stick."
That, to be honest, was not a man who quit writing his newspaper column this week after 20 years. It was themodernhumorist.com's parody of his random and ellipsis-filled column. Who's being parodied?
HINT: He's keeping his night job with CNN.
Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
If you get 'em in red, white and blue,
I'll ink three for the price of just two.
For anchors and dragons,
Demand has been flaggin'.
Get your own patriotic __________.
Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
"God Save Me," would be a swell tone.
This thing needs a ring that is well known.
And Andrew, th'dear chile,
Is on the speed-dial.
He gave me this spanking new __________.
Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
No play at work is disconcerting.
It's an issue we're all mini-skirting.
Being formal's a fetish.
Come on, be coquettish.
It's time for some on the job __________."
Answer 3
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