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December 15, 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: "Now you've seen and heard it, what U.S. officials believe is the smoking gun -- or in this case, the smoking tongue."
That's our man Dan Rather giving his, as always, original take on something we all got a chance to see on Thursday. What?
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Answer 1
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JEAN: "Great to have you back. Just don't steal the silverware!"
That was how someone greeted Democratic National Commitee Chairman Terry McAuliffe recently. Who told Terry to make sure he left with his pockets empty?
HINT: McAuliffe was visiting the White House.
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Answer 2
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JEAN: "My work has escaped from my control, and I have produced a monster: an immensely long, complex, rather bitter, and rather terrifying romance, quite unfit for children (if fit for anybody)."
That was an author just about to publish a book, back in 1950. It did become something of a monster, and it's about to become an even bigger one. What book was this author talking about?
HINT: Now we're going to see if it's fit for movie goers.
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Answer 3
Who's Jean Part II
Quote 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
JEAN: "He said if you really want to help, go out and buy, buy, buy. Funny, the other George Bush in my life -- he didn't see it that way."
That's someone telling how torn she was between the George Bushes in her life. Who said that?
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Answer 4
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JEAN: "There's going to be an occasional touch... there should not be rubbing or poking."
That was a man named Dan Boelsche, laying out the rules for a procedure that's become more common of late, much to the dismay of many, and delight of a few. What's the procedure?
HINT: It may explain why the smoking lounges at airports are so crowded these days.
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Answer 5
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CARL: "I'm afraid they'll clone Strom Thurmond and he'll be around forever."
Who this week stated her case against cloning by describing a world in which Strom Thurmond would be her colleague forever and ever.
HINT: If she cloned herself, she could "serve the people of New York" and run for President simultaneously.
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
In your belly's soft fulcrum I squint.
At the fluff that is blue-ish in tint.
Soon my face starts to frown,
"Why is this stuff called down
If it's all upward movement for __________?
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
The problem's too tough as you pose it.
Some heat it, some tap. My Mom froze it.
And Pops fumed, "Let's go, jar.
You, me, and this crowbar."
I say don't twist hard when you __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
To the Rat King I cry, "Don't slink. Strut, slacker."
And of audience plants I say, "what claquer?"
And yet, dear Tchaikovsky,
The sales chart shows a trough-ski,
Cuz people aren't seeing the __________.
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Answer 3
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