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March 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: "How much... coddling, hand-holding, back-scratching and butt-smooching does this sad man need? We who are a part of [his] vast national support system are getting a little tired of giving till it hurts."
That's The Washington Post's Tom Shales, kvetching about a needy and unloved late night star who is causing a major television brouhaha. Who?
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I have done my job as a congressman. I have conducted myself as a gentleman."
Many said it was a bit of a stretch, but that was what one man declared in his concession speech after he lost his bid to hold on to his U.S. House seat in California. Who?
HINT: He may have done those things, but he didn't come clean fast enough with the Washington, D.C. police.
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Have you heard the song? It really sucks."
That's a U.S. government staffer complaining about her boss. He's started passing out the lyrics to patriotic songs of his own composition at staff meetings so everyone can sing along. Who is this wannabe Mitch Miller?
HINT: If you don't want to sing, you don't have to, but then you have to stand behind the blue curtain with the statues.
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Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Question 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
"What the hell do these people do all day? [It] must be pinochle heaven... like a forced, 90-day vacation, away from your family, with members of both sexes."
That's CNN's Bill Press questioning the effectiveness of a top secret operation that was reported on last week. What?
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Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
"It's not clear what the purpose of the report is other than to promote Robert Ray's Senate campaign, Monica Lewinsky's HBO special and the Paula Jones vs. Tonya Harding boxing match."
That's Democratic National Committee spokesperson Jennifer Palmieri's take on a report that was released this week. The report on whom?
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Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
"Do you still throw spears at each other?"
That, according to London's Evening Standard is what a certain Englishman said to an Aboriginal tribal leader in Australia. Who can add this to his long list of public gaffes?
HINT: He was in Australia with his wife.
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
My bank's business ethics seem tottery.
But I won. Look, my eyes are all watery!
Yet my conscience is gnawing
For savings were drawing
Not interest, but picks in the __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
At cookouts Dad's outbursts are gutsy.
"That mustard skin always grows fusty!
I can't dress up these dogs
If the schnozz always clogs!
We need caps that will never get __________."
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
To find out how Enron was run
Use math laws. Hey, this could be fun!
There's a law that encumbers
Distribution of numbers.
Look for entries that start with a __________.
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Answer 3
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