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October 27, 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: "Let's hear it for the essential daily briefing!"
That's a man who day in and day out goes before his press corps to report absolutely nothing about the battle against the Taliban... who?
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Answer 1
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CARL: "It's clumpy and rugged. One of my scientists actually described it as looking like Purina Dog Chow."
That was Major John Parker, saying that what extremely unpleasant substance looks like Purina Dog Chow under a microscope?
HINT: You'd much rather get Dog Chow in the mail.
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Answer 2
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CARL: "Even with all that Daddy meant to the city, I think it would be nice to give the other fellas a chance."
That's a woman named Julia Ruth Stevens, who, despite all her daddy did for a certain team, is rooting against them this weekend. What team?
HINT: Her maiden name is Ruth.
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Answer 3
Week In Review
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CARL: "I'm not going to buy a gas mask and I'm not going to live in fear. If I'm going down, I'm going to go down looking good."
That's Cathy Solomon in the New York Times. She's one of the growing number of people who've decided that the best reaction to these uncertain times is to do what?
HINT: It really gives you a lift.
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Answer 4
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"Good to see somebody.... don't get many visitors at the cave."
Who this week told people that he gets lonely in his cave?
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Answer 5
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Noah Adams on All Things Considered: "So to sum it up, it looks a little glitzier, it is much more robust, a bit easier to use and almost unavoidable, right?"
Noah was summing up the big product debut this week... what glitzy and ubiquitous thing was unveiled?
HINT: And unstoppable despite the efforts of the Clinton Justice Department.
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
As he leaned back to get his head oiled,
The boss said, "I was pampered, not spoiled.
I am head enchilada
And was not denied nada,
I guess you might say I was __________."
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
Please start up, we need to go far.
Like the Love Bug, you, too, are a star.
Do you know how it feels
To make deals with your wheels?
I must cope with the moods of my __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
Psychic research remains on its post.
What haunts us has been diagnosed.
Now we know why they've flown.
Who is on a cell phone?
Please hang up, sir, you're spooking the __________."
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Answer 3
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