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October 6, 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: "I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport."
Who was that, giving us all the good news that ticket counters and planes will soon be soaring aloft over the Potomac?
HINT: Well, he told us all to get back to business as usual.
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Answer 1
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CARL: "I have no idea what the first one was. It might have been the first line from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address for all I know. The only thing I know was it was all in upper case."
That was engineer Ray Tomlinson talking to Reuter about something he invented thirty years ago this month. Even though it's become absolutely ubiquitous, the content of that first example is lost to history. What did he invent?
HINT: Without this invention, we'd never know that there were hot babes waiting to talk to us, right now!
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Answer 2
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CARL: "Tomorrow, I'm thinking corn dogs..."
That was 25-year-old Lindsay Burns, confessing to The Wall Street Journal that she's one of many Americans who's given up what, in the wake of last month's attacks?
HINT: This has led to a glut of Lean Cuisine in the grocery freezers across the country.
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Answer 3
Who's Carl Section Two
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CARL: "That was my room. And that was where I used to put the milk to keep it cool. We had no refrigerators."
That's a man showing his daughter around his alma mater, a school she's now attending. Who's the old fogie remembering the old days?
HINT: He made sure to show her where he didn't inhale once.
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Answer 4
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CARL: "I can't put on a uniform. I can fight for this president in another capacity."
That was a woman telling the world this week that she's going to fight for this president by running for Congress in Tampa, Fla.
HINT: She's both going to run for office and, unless somebody does something about it, she's going to count the votes, too.
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Answer 5
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CARL: "They were cleaning the kitchen before I went in."
That was a woman who made the firefighters at one Greenwich Village fire house a bit nervous when she paid a visit. Who was it?
HINT: She was taping a patriotic edition of her show, including flag-folding tips, how to make a flag planter, and how to make an All-American meal.
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
Our afflatus has brought this to pass:
We can rise from our wired morass.
Since the phones dare to bear
Their fair share of hot air,
Make a cell phone that's powered by __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
These taxiderms won't be rebuffed.
I caved in when they just barely puffed.
I feel like a shnook.
My fish is fresh on the hook.
And I'm pressured to have my catch __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
We're making TV viewers talk of Lit
By tying Lee's book to a block of it.
It'll make Scout's teeth cavitous.
Is Atticus mad at us?
We're marketing Mockingbird __________.
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Answer 3
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