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December 1, 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: "It shows that [they] are looking for the same qualities as any truck buyer: durability and reliability..."
That was Wade Hoyt, a spokesman for Toyota, putting the best corporate spin he could on the unwanted endorsement of Toyotas from what group of satisfied owners?
HINT: They're really glad it came with a three-year/36,000 mile "bombproofing" guarantee.
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Answer 1
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CARL: "For the three or four people in the United States who didn't already know, it's now official."
That's the Christian Science Monitor's David Francis reacting to the National Bureau of Economic Research's announcement that the U.S. is indeed in the midst of what?
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Answer 2
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CARL: "From 14 to 40 [a woman] needs good looks. From 40-60, she needs personality... After 60, she needs cash."
That statement of principle came from a woman who died last week at the age of 83, after providing generations of women with cash, not to mention, on occasion, genuine pink Cadillacs. Who was it?
HINT: This woman's success was based on the theory that at any age, a woman needs cosmetics.
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Answer 3
Who's Carl Part II
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CARL: "It's simple: Say No to Mini-Me"
That was the headline on a paper from the Democratic Leadership Council, stating plainly their reaction to a surprising announcement this week of what dubious scientific breakthrough?
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Answer 4
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CARL: "Maybe if [he] was running against Mullah Omar, he'd at least have a shot at it."
That's political analyst Tony Quinn giving the San Francisco Chronicle his views on a certain California congressman's chances in his bid for re-election... whose?
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Answer 5
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CARL: "If we are the reason why ABC is no longer No. 1 in viewers, I'll eat my hat."
That was a television host indignantly reacting to reports that his heretofore vastly successful show might be cancelled next year. Who is it?
HINT: Is that your final job?
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
The stones were shipped safe in a fridge
From the Thames to just over that ridge.
We know it's a joke,
But it's not on us, bloke.
We decided to buy a used __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
As the biosphere's trial run's completing
We find a doomed history repeating.
They piped in clean air,
Had a catered affair.
Gads! The bionauts have been caught __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
I'm Vic Cedarstaff. Cowpoke. No tech guy.
I was riding; the air was a speck dry.
My hat flies off. I holler.
But the band's 'round my collar.
Now it's Arizona's state __________.
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Answer 3
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