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May 4, 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: "I voted eight times as it was not very difficult. It was really fun."
That's a happy voter named Nawaz Bhutto talking to the BBC about the fun he had casting numerous votes in what controversial election held this week?
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Answer 1
Quote 2 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: The idea, presumably, is that the king would concentrate on the activities we associate with modern royalty -- smiling and waving, committing adultery, getting divorced -- while the real work of nation-building swirls on around him."
That was Slate's Michael Kinsley trying to explain the rationale behind returning a king to what country?
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Answer 2
Quote 3 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "A cosmic cone, a tadpole, two mice and a swan."
That's the list of things that were captured this week by what?
HINT: They were captured by the most expensive digital cameral ever made.
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Answer 3
Who's Carl This Time?
Quote 4 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I did it in half the time and ate twice as much."
That was a man who celebrated the 75th anniversary of his grandfather's feat by re-enacting it on Wednesday. Who was his grandfather?
HINT: 75 years ago was 1927.
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Answer 4
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CARL: "That ain't gonna happen, uh-uh. I know NBC means well. But I am retired. I ain't going back on television."
That's someone saying that he will not return to the small screen to help NBC celebrate its 75th anniversary, even though he was the network's big star for 30 years. Who said it?
HINT: Before he answered the interviewer's question, he held it up to his big turban in a sealed envelope.
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Answer 5
Quote 6 (Listen with Real Audio)
CARL: "I still have the letter, still have it framed in my office, which in effect said 'Don't call us, we'll call you. Thank you, and it's nice to see your dance party.'"
That was the host of a television show, discussing initial opposition to what is now legendary programming. What show's debut 50 years ago is being celebrated with a reunion special this week?
HINT: In those 50 years, the host hasn't visibly aged a day.
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Answer 6
Limerick Challenge
Limerick 1: (Listen with Real Audio)
Bonaparte -- bless his heart -- starts to snort.
"I was RIGHT! See this chart? This report?
First there's gender, then race,
And there's size, in third place.
See!?! I earn less because I'm so __________ "
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Answer 1
Limerick 2: (Listen with Real Audio)
Since sunlight won't heat through a clog,
Here's some spin that will make you agog.
It seems that pollution
Might be a solution.
Global warming is slowed down by __________.
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Answer 2
Limerick 3: (Listen with Real Audio)
We'll serve up a slap that has plenty sting.
Or we'll scream at the concert where Lenny sings.
We think what you deserve is
Our limitless service.
If it's legal, then we will do __________.
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Answer 3
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