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October 13, 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.
Photo Extra!
• Have you seen the picture of bin Laden with Bert?
Who's Carl This Time?
Quote 1 (Listen with Real Audio)
Carl: You can leave up that picture that looks like the bottom of an aquarium all day, but I don't know what that gets you."
That's a vice president for the Fox News channel moaning about the poor quality of the pictures of what?
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Two hours straight of 'Danke Schoen' and that turbaned S.O.B. will come out with his hands up."
That was Slate.com's Scott Shuger, giving a somewhat sardonic tip of the hat to the U.S. military's plan to send whom overseas?
HINT: "Danke Schoen." Who else sings "Danke Schoen"?
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "This is a terrible, terrible tragedy. It's like Beethoven. It's a cruel irony."
That was a man named Michael Harrison, reacting in The Washington Post to a genuine tragedy that befell what prominent man?
HINT: In fact, the same thing happened to Beethoven.
HINT: Michael Harrison is the editor of Talkers, a magazine devoted to the talk show industry.
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Answer 3
Who's Carl Section Two
Quote 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I shook hands with the vice president today in the Oval Office. I welcomed him out of his secure location... and I was pleased to see him. He's looking swell."
That's President Bush during his Thursday press conference announcing that someone had come out of hiding... who?
HINT: The fear was that this man was hiding out in the cardiac care ward at Walter Reed Hospital.
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Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I understand there may be some heartburn on Capitol Hill, but I suggest if they want to relieve that heartburn they take their positions very seriously.
That's also President Bush. This week he caused some "heartburn" on Capitol Hill when he decided that not all members of Congress could properly do what?
HINT: If I told you what it was, the president would chastise me too.
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Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Fluffy is in deep doo doo."
That's D.C.-based security expert Jack McGeorge in Newsweek talking about the lack of companies making what for pets?
HINT: It's hard enough to get Fluffy to wear her flea collar, little less one of these things.
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
Ah, zese beauties are simply divine.
Eh! Ze winner, tonight she'll be mine.
Ooh, check out zat rack!
Oh! Her back must went "crack."
Oh, someone's been stretching her __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
We've moved up from Spam and baked bean.
With comestibles fit for a queen.
Now New York and Paris
No longer embarass
Fab London's delightful __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
"Come on Eileen,"Oh jeez, yuck.
I cannot believe my bum luck.
And then "My Sharona"
Oh, that, too, is a groaner.
Why do only the wrong songs get __________?
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Answer 3
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