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February 16, 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: [silence]
Ok, that was Carl providing, in essence, one man's congressional testimony this week. Who chose to remain silent this week?
HINT: Well not total silence, he did say he'd take the fifth.
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "We can find ways to pay for our golf tournaments."
That's Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford Junior trying to soothe his colleagues' fears over the potential effects of what big piece of legislation that passed the House on Thursday?
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Just to give you the indication... of how widespread this is here... at the Crosby Stills, Nash and Young concert [in Toronto] tonight, Steven Stills held up a sign that said, 'Jamie and David, you wuz robbed.'"
That was the Toronto Sun's Steve Tustin demonstating to CNN's Aaron Brown the depth of Canadian fury over what injustice committed against their countrymen?
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Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Question 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "He could leave from natural causes... He is exactly the same age I am. And I believe I'm healthier than he is -- I hope I am, anyway."
That's Secretary of State Colin Powell, who told the Senate this week about one of the patient options being considered to get rid of a man who the United States has wanted to oust for more than a decade... who?
HINT: It's the Mother of All Death Watches.
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Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "You know, I really like that phrase, 'Pray silence!' I wonder if I could use that in New York. Actually, we have a slightly different version in Brooklyn: 'Shut up, you bum!'"
That was someone who had the opportunity to spread some New York style at Buckingham Palace this week, where he received an honorary knighthood.
HINT: Six months ago, this knighthood would have been unthinkable.
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Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die."
That's what one country star called the "Hank Williams Syndrome" in one of his songs. The country star who wrote that advice followed it to the letter, and died this week at age 64. Who?
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
In the cold Macedonian breeze
My snack-pack's bologna and peas.
I'd like comfort food, please.
In U.S. MRE's
Some real __________.
MRE is the military's term for "meals ready to eat."
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
With Babe, I am lashed to the brig.
Because the cops can't take a dig.
The judge didn't fine,
But I stand with a sign
In a pen with an award-winning __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
The man in whose psyche I delve is
The same guy who shocked with his pelvis.
No, this is no spoof.
I have DNA proof
That the patient I'm treating is __________."
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Answer 3
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