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April 20, 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: "We have been on the road for the last six months and we did not watch television or read the newspapers."
That was Japanese tourist Yuki Makano explaining to the BBC how he and his girlfriend Mina Takahashi ended up being the only tourists trying to see the holy sites... where?
HINT: They realized something was wrong when all the places their guidebook described had been reduced to rubble.
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "We are never again going to see a Supreme Court justice who was first in his class at Yale Law School and led the NFL in rushing in the same year."
That was attorney Ron Klain, being wistful -- and probably very accurate -- about the loss of what jurist and football great, who died this week at the age of 84. Who was it?
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "And so, in my State of the -- my State of the Union -- or state -- my speech to the nation, whatever you want to call it, speech to the nation -- I asked Americans to give 4,000 years -- 4,000 hours over the next -- the rest of your life -- of service to America."
So who said that, addressing a crowd in Bridgeport, Connecticut last week?
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Answer 3
Panelist Questions
Question 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: Scientists this week excitedly announced the discovery, in southern Europe, of the largest what, ever found?
HINT: These things are in search of the world's largest picnic basket.
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Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: ... And then they can have a little glass of wine and have the procedure right there. And then they keep a little ice on it and then their friends can have it done and they can go back to the party, or -- so forth.
That's Doctor Joseph Eviatar talking to Liane Hansen about a party this week where he was the main attraction... a party that was declared legal for the first time by the Food and Drug Administration... what kind of party?
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Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: Police in Holland have gotten fed up with rampant vandalism, and have decided to install security cameras to protect... what?
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
With three hostesses baitingly swishing,
We'll set male watchers drooling and wishing.
Our bikinis will lure,
And hook viewers for sure.
For our lifestyle show focused on __________.
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
For science a stir we are making,
With Bond's drink that makes taste buds awaken.
Dry martini's I'll proctor,
This needs more vodka, doctor.
And it's crucial the drink should be __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
Dear Dad, the weather got better,
Please send cash so I won't be a debtor.
Greet the emperor Han, sir,
But this mail got no answer.
We've found the world's oldest dead __________.
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Answer 3
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