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December 22, 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: "U.S. officials fear what they call the 'Elvis scenario,' that he may already be dead but there's no way to prove it."
That was Jim Miklaszewski of NBC News. Who might become the next Elvis, alive in legend if not in fact?
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "It's tough to be a rich person these days."
That was a man -- remaining anonymous, perhaps wisely -- telling The Boston Globe that bonuses are practically non-existent this year... where?
HINT: The lack of bonuses might have something to do with recommending stock in Enron.
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I knew they would screw it up somehow. And the Witch King Ringwraith says, 'Give up the halfling, she-elf!' Oh puh-leez! Give me a break!"
That's a fan of a certain book, going off on the movie version on Foxnews.com. What movie are we talking about?
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Answer 3
Panel Question
Question 1 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "One has to wonder, I won't say, 'what were they smoking,' I will say, 'What were they drinking?'"
That's New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani questioning the sobriety of the judges who determined that his town is the most what city in America?
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Answer 4
Question 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Now I don't need to leave Matt. I do think Matt and I are a bit like husband and wife. We finish each other's sentences."
That's someone who, not only will get to stay with Matt, but will get paid $16,000,000 to finish Matt's sentences... who?
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Answer 5
Question 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post recently spent months searching for an American burg upon which he would bestow a certain title. He found the northern Nevada town of Battle Mountain, which he dubbed what?
HINT: Battle Mountain beat Buffalo, Camden, New Jersey and Terre Haute, Indiana for the title.
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
I swear on my mother, it's true.
Ask the guys from the rescuing crew.
We truly are stuck
From the crash of the truck
That was filled with industrial __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
Their turn-offs are bad dates who stay late
And old men who don't wear their toupee's straight.
We'll send in Hefner's bunnies
For Super Bowl money.
NBC's fighting back with some ________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
Betty Crocker, who long remained mute, spake,
"Kitchen science has made a minute break.
In starch crystals of flour
Lies this Christmas treat's power.
I've learned to revive a dead __________."
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Answer 3
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