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February 9, 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: "I did not have political relations with that man..."
That was puckish South Carolina Senator Fritz Hollings, giving his version of President Bush's answers to persistent questions about his relationship with what man?
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I reached my threshold of endurance when some half-witted... Mumia groupie started into some kind of mutant left-wing Southern Baptist rhyming rant, whereupon I strolled off to find a drink."
That was Alan Cabal of the New York Press, complaining about the people protesting what in New York City last weekend?
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I do not want his name or image to be used irreverently, such as on a meat product or lingerie."
That was the great-grandson of a major historical figure, assuring us that even though he's licensed his forefather's image to be used in commercials, Victoria's Secret and Oscar Mayer need not apply. What hero of history will now join Martin Luther King as a commercial spokesman?
HINT: Things he could posthumously endorse: Spinning wheels, loincloths, meditation, Rogaine.
HINT: They didn't mind so much when Ben Kingsley picked up an Oscar for playing him.
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Answer 3
Panel Questions
Occasionally, we end up cutting embarassing and ludicrous stories in favor of even more embarassing and ludicrous stories. But being the packrats we are, we don't like to throw out perfectly good material. So we present a pair of nuggets to you sans audio.
Question 1
If you go to the Hague and visit the war crimes tribunal's biggest catch, chances are good you'll catch him soothing his feelings with Frank Sinatra's "My Way." Who did it "His Way?"
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Answer 1
Question 2
CARL: The Wall Street Journal reported that Harriet Grimm, a landscape architect living in New York's upscale Tribeca neighborhood, recently got a $6,500 check to help cover her acupuncture, psychotherapy and day care for her daughter. Who ponied up the cash?
HINT: Clara Barton would vomit.
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Answer 2
Question 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
PETER: It's over, it's done, give it up, things aren't going to change, better get used to things as they are, because this is it. That's according to a group of scientists in Britain who say what is over?
HINT: This means, among other things, that I won't be getting any taller, nor will my descendants.
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Answer 3
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
My critics let out an appalled bark.
They call my caged bird a mere mall lark.
They say my fame's a fleeting shard.
Hey, that's a great greeting card.
I'll sign it and send it to __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
"My mouth chaps on each downhill trip, Mom.
It hurts so, I can't keep my grip calm.
A 40-inch stick?
That might do the trick.
Olympians need a big __________."
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
The mailman was simply agog.
"I won't traffic in pepper-spray fog.
But the sub on my beat
Was attacked for a treat.
Now I can't be so nice to that __________."
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Answer 3
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