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April 13, 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: "Don't you think it would be more important to go to Jerusalem first?
That's King Mohammed of Morocco's less than warm welcome to a certain someone who stopped to see him before going on to try to secure Middle East Peace. To whom did the king say this?
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "You bet I did... I enjoyed it."
That's New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg admitting that yes, when he was younger he gladly did... what?
HINT: No question here about whether he inhaled.
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "For some readers, it will be like painting grandmother up like a tart."
That was Phil Nesbitt of the American Press Institute, predicting reader reaction to the addition of color to what gray old lady of journalism?
HINT: You'll be happy to know, even though they changed the rest of the paper, the Editorial Page is still printed with the blood of liberals.
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Answer 3
Who's Carl Round II
Question 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Are the prizes getting more like baseball, where smaller clubs can no longer compete? Usually there are a couple of prizes for a Vermont editorial writer or a North Dakota newsroom covering a flood, just for geopolitical balance."
That's Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post lamenting that the big boys in New York, D.C., and Los Angeles won all the what prizes this week?
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Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "When asked about it, a company spokesperson said, '7,000 or 8,000, who knows, we're not really good with numbers.'"
That's NBC's Late Night host, Conan O'Brien giving his take on a company's announcement this week that it would be laying off around 7,000 employees. What company?
HINT: This company did to its employees what Enron did to its stockholders.
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Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen with Real Audio )
CARL: "Had you said, 'Look, folks, I'm sick of reading novels all the time. I want a life. I want to veg out and watch TV and paint my toenails, OK? Give me a break.' I could've respected that."
That's Chicago Tribune critic Julia Keller doubting the veracity of a woman's announcement this week that there aren't enough books that, "I feel absolutely compelled to share." Who's getting out of the book club game?
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
I seek office below Mason-Dixon.
They suggest that my name might need fixin'.
But I say, "Take a look
And you'll see I'm no crook.
When you go to the polls vote for __________."
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
From women you'll no longer stand afar.
They'll see what a hot-blooded man you are.
Afghanistan's daughters
Will make your heart totter.
Just drink from the waters of __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
So I'm rich, pop, why's that such a drama?
She cooks while I wear my pajama.
You had your arraignment
Now you'll cough up the payment
As long as I live with my __________.
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Answer 3
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