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April 27, 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: "You've Got Loss!!"
That was The New York Post's headline on the big financial story of the week. Who lost more than $54 billion in the first quarter of the year?
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Non!"
That single word was the entire headline on some French newspapers this week, as they reacted to what political cataclysm?
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "That's wonderful. Elmo loves you very much, Ms. Karen, and you are a wonderful mother."
That's Sesame Street's red furry muppet Elmo, reacting on CNN to White House adviser Karen Hughes' decision to do what?
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Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time? Round II
Question 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "Mother Earth one, Bush zero."
That's The Washington Post headline on a story describing how things did not go quite according to plan, as President Bush tried to celebrate what, earlier this week?
HINT: You can take this to mean that Mother Nature is kinda miffed about the whole ANWR thing...
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Answer 4
Question 5 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "It explains why the original title for Romeo and Juliet was Siegfreid and Roy."
That's Conan O'Brien's response to new evidence discovered this week that William Shakespeare was what?
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Answer 5
Question 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "As the lights dimmed, a troupe of actors and tumblers swanned in slow motion down the arena's aisles. You took one look at all the face paint and costumery and thought, 'Well, this can't be good.'"
That's The Washington Post's David Segal describing the renaissance festival atmosphere at a recent rock show. What music legend has added a mime act to his magical Mystery tour?
HINT: John just would have had Yoko banging on a tambourine.
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
Greenwich would not let anyone new in.
(It was after we won World War II then.)
"All the nations united?
Why, of course we're delighted.
But we'll not make room for the __________."
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
The trick is to spin a good yard, Thumb.
They don't buy you're a general? Darn 'em.
There's one born every minute,
So my show knows no limit.
Thus spake the great ringmaster __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
The Yale grad could not contain his glee,
"We once let those old pie tins whizz free.
Our hands' pain was fantastic
So thank Wham-O for plastic.
We're just glad that they kept the name __________."
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Answer 3
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