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October 20, 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: "In light of current events, we are changing the name of the band to something more friendly -- 'Basket Full of Puppies.' "
That was from a press release from a rock & roll band that's been forced to rethink its name. What band?
HINT: You might remember their hit album, Spreading The Disease.
HINT: FBI HAZMAT teams are being called to the heavy metal sections of record stores all over the country.
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "In Cipro we trust."
That's how one of America's big news anchors ended his Monday night newscast. Who paid tribute to the world's best known antibiotic?
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "He takes the Taliban restriction against trimming your beard so seriously that he's issued a Fatwa against Tom Cruise for cutting off Nicole Kidman."
That was from the Modernhumorist.com, one of the many such places putting humor to use in attacking whom?
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Answer 3
Who's Carl Section Two
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CARL: "They stay here because 100 egotists want to show they have the weight of the world on their shoulders. Who are they fooling?"
That's House Republican Jack Kingston of Georgia fuming about a group of people that some say made Kingston and his colleagues look bad. Who?
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Answer 4
Quote 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Entertainment Tonight's Long National Nightmare is Over!"
That is The Hotline's rather sardonic headline announcing the returm of what on-again off-again event?
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Answer 5
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CARL: "Keeping your energy up is not hard in a situation like this, but I did rely on something I call 'zoom juice.' "
That is our favorite news anchor revealing the secret ingredient to his evening newscasts. Who is it?
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
It's scurvy I want to avert.
But I do not like fruit for dessert.
Since heat doesn't trouble it,
I'll slip on this doublet.
I get vitamin C from my __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
Oh waiter, please come and explain.
This flat drink, you call that champagne?
I'll grouse and I'll rant
And then kvetch in discant.
As a Brit I have learned to __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
I've got short, stumpy arms like a shrimp.
And my legs hurt, I walk with a limp.
I'm not king of my place.
Don't kick sand in my face.
I'm less T-Rex and more of a __________.
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Answer 3
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