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March 23, 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 Corey This Time?
Quote 1 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Millions of American men woke up today and shaved. This does not mean they are en route to Concord, N.H. to file."
That's a spokesperson for someone saying that a decision to shave does not necessarily have political signifigance ... who are we talking about?
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "It's one of the major ice events of the last century."
That's Douglas MacAyeal of the University of Chicago letting us know that this week's ice event was a really big, big deal. What ice event?
HINT: It was the size of Rhode Island.
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "The Oscars are supposed to be about the performance you've given. I'm not nominated for a Worst Argument with an English TV Executive."
That's an actor doing his best to deflect criticism for a string of widely reported blow-ups. Who is hoping the academy judges him by his acting ability and not by his manners?
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Answer 3
Who's Corey Round II
Question 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
"Want a ride?"
That's a man in his 100th year on this planet this past week asking a young woman if she wanted a ride on his wheelchair. Who's this incorrigible nonagenarian?
HINT: This happened in a corridor of the U.S. Capitol.
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Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
"I put myself in the position of what would I say, how would I do it? I sit back and say this is good or this should have been done differently. You really can't help it."
That's a former vice president playing the game, "What would I have done if I'd become president?" Who?
HINT: It's not Al Gore.
HINT: Among this man's greatest hits: "Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."
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Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
"Listen to the guest list [for this wedding]: David Hasselhoff, Robert Goulet, Donny Osmond. This wasn't a wedding -- it was an episode of 'Love Boat.'"
That was David Letterman's take on the most recent big celebrity wedding. Who invited the Super Hits of the Seventies to her nuptials?
HINT: She spells it with a Z, not with an S.
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
My character suffered a bender.
The phrase "he/she" is the offender.
I'm not hermaphroditic
In matters politic,
But you say I don't have a fixed __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
Though it's fake bills they try to subdue.
I have a light theory that's new:
They're just flying to you,
Shrinking waves that you view.
So greenbacks will now appear __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
With white faces and upside-down frowns
We try to uplift our reknown.
With oversized shoes
And thundering kazoos
We march for the freedom of __________.
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Answer 3
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