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January 12, 2002
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: "This case is just meat! It's just raw meat! I would love to get it!"
That's James Cramer, financial commentator for CNBC, who says that he'd love to be one of the lawyers looking into what burgeoning scandal?
HINT: It's turned out to be a lump of raw meat that cost stockholders $60 billion.
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Where can you find a morning news anchor who is provocative, super smart... Oh yeah, and just a little sexy?"
That was the ad that started this week's other big controversy. Where could you find this anchor who was "just a little bit sexy?"
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "He became a benevolent fat-delivery system all his own, living in a universe where everyday people implored [him] to please bring back the Monterey Ranch chicken sandwich, or to add more bacon to the bacon double cheeseburger."
That was Hank Steuver in The Washington Post, offering an epitaph for whom?
HINT: He always said yes to such requests.
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Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Question 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I understand taking tests aren't fun. Too bad."
That's someone making it as clear as he possibly could that he didn't give a hoot about the difficulties students will endure because of his new education bill... who?"
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Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "The thing that kind of bothers me is his little angelic look [of] feigning... sincerity. You know, it's like Eddie Haskell got elected to the Senate."
That's soon to be retired House Majority Leader Dick Armey during a recent appearance on WABC New York. What political enemy was he comparing to Beaver Cleaver's hypocritical nemesis?
HINT: He's the only Democrat in charge of anything, so he'd be the one the GOP goes after.
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Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "He was never corrupted by fame or ambition. When I walked out of the Oval Office for the last time, I asked him what his post-White House plans were. [He] didn't answer. He just rolled over for a belly-scratch."
That was former Clinton White House staffer John Pollack memorializing what presidential intimate, who died last week?
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
The biotechnologist's punchy,
"I'll inject where the stalks get all bunchy.
Some wax in these plants
Will reduce breakfast rants
For your cornflakes will always stay __________."
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
"This vintage's a mere eight months young.
It's fertilized with chicken dung.
The taste-tests are quicker
'Cause it's not a licker.
It's electric: my new hand-held __________."
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
George Lucas says, "I didn't Thync.
My girls caused this whole bleedin' stync.
The boy band will play knights
Who get killed in the fights.
Lance and Justin, the guys from __________."
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Answer 3
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