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February 2, 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: "Skeptics might say [it] boils down to 'If you love my war on terrorism, you'll love my war on recession'"
That was Washington Post television critic Tom Shales' reaction to whose performance Tuesday night?
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I would like to know if you are on crack. If so that would explain a lot."
That was a question directed by an employee at the Big Boss at a company meeting last October. What CEO was suspected to be on crack?
HINT: According to his wife, nowadays even if he wanted crack, he couldn't afford it.
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I wanted more gutty and gritty and we're starting to move that way. Instead of being milquetoast and G-rated we're starting to go for R-rated. Let's make it who I really am."
That's Carl's, as always, dead-on impersonation of a man whose life from the Navy Seals to Hollywood to the political world is being made into a big musical... who?
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Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Question 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Bring it on."
That's President Bush this week telling the General Accounting Office to bring somethin' on... what?
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Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "In all due modesty, it would not have happened."
That's someone stating that if he'd gotten, say, about 50 million more votes for President in 2000, the events of Sept. 11 would never have happened. Who is this man with a skewed sense of modesty?
HINT: No terrorist would ever think of going up against the man who took down the Chevy Corvair.
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Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I screamed down the hotel hallway, 'Everybody get out, let's leave now!' We were all up there, but Elizabeth Taylor was at another hotel. We jumped in the car, but there were these girls who had been at the show the night before, and they were banging on the windows. Fans are so loyal. We hid in New Jersey."
That was a celebrity telling us how he, his entourage and Elizabeth Taylor reacted to the Sept. 11 attacks. Who was it?
HINT: I hope he didn't have to leave his monkey and his boa constrictor behind.
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
When I left the TV for the fridge
The skiers raced down the north ridge.
Now with food in my mouth,
I watch East finesse South.
I'm the dummy who's stuck watching __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
"Where's the diff'rence?" the Pope's softly cursin'.
"Here I thought P.C. talk could not worsen.
At least night's still not day.
But how long will that stay?
Now it reads God created a __________."
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
The comforting mother says, "Steady, there."
But the kid cries and gives her a heady glare.
I'll believe that my binky
Has gotten too stinky.
But please let me keep my stuffed __________."
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Answer 3
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