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January 26, 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: "The store (was) unable to... position itself between Wal-Mart's dirt-cheap we've-got-more-unnecessary-crap-than-anyone approach, and Target's faux-upscale we've-got-just-as-much-crap-but-market-it-slightly-differently formula."
That's Mark Morford of the San Francisco Chronicle giving his never-been-to-business-school explanation as to why a big retailer was forced to declare bankruptcy this week. Which retailer?
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I even fired up a pretzel the other day, and it got down smoothly."
That was someone telling Tom Brokaw of NBC News that he got right back on the horse, metaphorically speaking... who was it?
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: You give me fever
When you kiss me,
Fever when you hold me tight,
Fever through the daytime
I get a fever all through the night.
You give me fever.
That was Carl's rendition of a song that will be forever associated with a performer who died just last week at the age of 81. Who was it?
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Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Question 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "What I'm outraged about is that employees didn't know all the facts about Enron. My own mother-in-law bought stock last summer and it's not worth anything now."
That was yet another person who felt personally betrayed by the fall and coverup of Enron. Who was it?
HINT: You'd think Kenny Boy would have given him a heads up.
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Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "It goes something like, 'Industry rule 480, record company people are shady.'"
That's a singer quoting the rap group Tribe Called Quest to explain to the New York Times her record company's decision this week to drop her like a rock. Who was paid $28 million to go away?
HINT: $28 million represents about $1,000,000 for every person who paid to see Glitter.
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Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "He bit my foot! He bit my foot! I can't believe he bit my foot."
That was boxer Lennox Lewis. Who bit his foot at a press conference?
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
Our marketing aims at a thin niche.
It's Popeye meets Porky when finished.
This swine has the genes
Of some dark leafy greens.
We're cross-breeding piglets and __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
Global powers are viewed with a frown.
Le Big Mac will be chased out of town.
We 'ave stormed the Bastille,
Now comes your 'appy meal.
We'll get rid of that silly old __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
My Florida days are quite drab.
I'll go out, and the first one I grab.
Then, baby, I'm gone.
(Yes, the meter stays on.)
I'll ride 'cross the land in a __________.
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Answer 3
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