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December 8, 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 Jean This Time?
Quote 1 (Listen with Real Audio)
JEAN: "I'm tempted to say... That's it?"
That was ABC's Diane Sawyer, reacting to the long-awaiting unveiling this week... of what?
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Answer 1
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JEAN: "We want to give him a big hug and maybe a little kick in the butt for not telling me what he was up to, and for not getting my permission, because I would not have given him permission to go [to Afghanistan]."
That's a man named Frank Lindh talking to Larry King about how he'll punish his son John for doing what?
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Answer 2
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JEAN: "I appreciate every one of you, especially you ladies. You are good looking. God bless you."
That's a man showing that, even on his 99th birthday, he's still scopin' out the ladies... who?
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Answer 3
Who's Jean Part II
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JEAN: "It's generally a kid sitting on Santa's knee, and Santa saying, 'I know when you've been sleeping, I know when you've been awake, I know when you've been bad or good' -- and the kid looks up and says, 'Who are you, John Ashcroft?' "
Who told that joke in his testimony before Congress Thursday?
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Answer 4
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JEAN: Your next quote begins with a man describing his job in April 1999 when he went to war-torn Yugoslavia:
"In some ways, on some days, danger is my business."
Now that same man describing his experiences when he went to Vietnam:
"In some ways, on some days, danger is my business"
And finally this week, how he characterized his trek to Afghanistan 20 years after he first reported from there:
"In some ways, on some days, danger is my business"
Whose business is danger... at least on some days?
HINT: He's the official anchorman of Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me.
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Answer 5
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CARL: "You're darned right I'd do it again. I got a chance to meet Adam Sandler and Dana Carvey. Why not?"
That's a governor saying, yes, he'd happily leave his state again for a cameo in a Dana Carvey movie... a trip that's caused him much political trouble back home... who?
HINT: This guy is perhaps the only man who can say his movies were worse than Adam Sandler's.
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
Russia's Cabinet's laughin' and hootin'.
"Look, here is a suit you look cute in.
Comrade, keep your chin up,
They've made you a pin-up.
Each month shows a picture of __________."
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
Use of lenses need not be debasing.
Look, no smudges or signs of erasing.
Art historians scrimmage,
"How'd they get that clear image?"
I think the old masters were __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
Where's the sideshow for underage snackers?
This penguin seeks corporate backers.
I want to audition
For Barnum's tradition.
I'll be the new animal __________.
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Answer 3
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