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January 19, 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: "Is it true that Arlen Specter now claims there was a second pretzel?"
That was Senator John Kerry, offering just one of the thousands of questions swirling this week about what infamous pretzel?
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "If you are into the blame game, you have to start with Bill Clinton."
That's Georgia Republican Bob Barr. He's one of many conservatives who are saying that any blame for the year's big scandal has to start with Bill Clinton. What scandal?
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Do you want to come back to my palace for a drink?"
According to England's News of the World tabloid, that's the pickup line that a young man has used to get babes back to his place for a cocktail and, we learned this week, a doobie. Who?
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Answer 3
Panel Round
From time to time some great material ends up getting cut from the radio show. Since we hate to throw out perfectly good jokes, we offer you these repurposed gems without audio. .
Question 1
This week the New York Times reported that the Enron Corporation, desperate to make back some of the money it was hemorrhaging, made a serious attempt last year to get into what new business?
HINT: Click here now for Hot, Naked Politically Connected Plutocrats who want YOU!
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Answer 1
Question 2
"So OK, this is Hollywood. I can live with it. I'm a woman of the 21st century. I'm, as they say, fly."
That's Nina Totenberg saying that she understands some poetic license by the folks in Hollywood, but she pretty much despised the new prime-time drama that purports to give a behind-the-scenes look... at what?
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Answer 2
Question 3
The former wife of a California billionaire has asked a court to award her the biggest child support settlement ever in that state. The $320,000 per month includes $436 a month to take care of their three-year-old daughter's what?
HINT: $436 will buy a lot of carrots and cage shavings.
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Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
The trapped fan says, "You bet I'm upset.
I don't think my cheers posed a big threat.
Most soccer fans do resent
Thrown monofilament.
Cops just love casting a __________."
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
I'm a very confused shark-zoo surgeon.
No injections made this mother burgeon.
A conception immaculate?
The perception is accurate.
Here's a baby, but she's still a __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
At the shul we're just straining our necks or eyes.
So the gym will evoke some perplexed outcries.
At my physical pinnacle
I shout "Let's get rabbinical!"
It's Hasidim who go for your __________."
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Answer 3
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