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March 30, 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)
Corey: "We look at this as something to heighten the hearts of Enron employees who are losing their jobs... It's a fun opportunity for them as they are looking for other jobs. And who knows, it might lead to another career."
That was a woman at an American institution that said this week it's going to give former Enron employees -- but just the female ones -- a "fun opportunity." What do those laid-off women of Enron now have the chance to do?
HINT: Turn ons: deregulation of energy markets. Turn offs: Ken Lay.
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
COREY: "Hello everyone (white out, white out, white out) Hope this is helpful."
That's all the information that was NOT whited out in one of thousands of documents released this week by whom?
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
COREY: "I would like first to thank the music branch for giving me so many chances to be humiliated over the years."
That's how an Oscar winner, and recent Wait, Wait... guest, thanked the Academy for finally giving him an award after 16 nominations. Who?
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Answer 3
Who's Corey Round II
Question 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
COREY: "Good evening, ladies and germs... Last month I put in a rock garden. Two of them were dead in the morning!
"A great actor was asked for the 10,000 time, 'How'd you become a star?' He answered, 'I started out as a gaseous cloud. Then I cooled.'"
Those were some of the jokes told by one of the true Original Kings of Comedy, who died this week at the age of 93. Who was it?
HINT: Corey was wearing a dress as he said those.
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Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
COREY: "A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, 'My father is an idiot.'"
That was from a director who made very few movies anybody wouldn't mind seeing again and again. He died this week at the age of 95. Who was it?
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Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
COREY: "I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic."
That's an actor and comedian explaining that his stature led him to comedy. That man died this week at age 66. Who said it?
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
Though Gameboys turn us into bums
It seems hand evolution succumbs.
They don't stick out, ain't sore,
And twiddle no more
But we kids are quite good with our __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
As Mowgli sets out for a job,
He says, "Wait, let me mark up this log.
And then don't be miffed,
Your rear end I'll sniff.
I'm learning so much from my __________."
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
Of me she said, "She's quite a catch, take her."
But in romance she was a... well, match-faker.
She said she'd find soulmates,
I got balding troll-dates.
For this I am suing my __________.
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Answer 3
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